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Graduate Axiomatic derivation of [X,P]?

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Graduate When is not necesary to do surface ordering in the non-Abelian Stokes theorem?

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Graduate Calculating Statistical Operator $\hat{\rho}$

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Graduate How could a graviton mediate gravity at places such as a black hole?

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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser - double-photon explanation

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Graduate First, second and third quantization formalisms

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Graduate Does antimatter go back in time?

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Graduate Photon's Probability of Passing Through Polaroid

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Graduate Clebsch Gordon coefficients for three spins

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Graduate Radial probability distribution (rpd)

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Undergrad What is the difference between Compton and Rayleigh scattering?

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Graduate Conceptual question from Atomic Structure

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Graduate Is there a quantum theory of magnetism?

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Graduate Application of Quantum mechanics

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Graduate Is space a thing or a relationship between existents?

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Graduate How to deduce the units of hw?

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Undergrad Question about radiation and matter

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Graduate Entanglement Swapping: A and X Polarization Explained

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Graduate Infinite square well with finite potential energy inside

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Ncaa march madness and quantum mechanics

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Graduate Measuring orbital angular momentum

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Graduate How does the length of a 2D conductor affect the transverse Hall resistance?

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Graduate Does entanglement describe continuity at the micro level?

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Graduate How Does Hermitian Property Lead to \langle A^2 \rangle in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Disproving Heisenburg's Uncertanty Principle

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Graduate How spinor vector envolves in describing the atom

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Graduate Question about the use of group theory in QM

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Graduate Pauli's exclusion principle and quantum entanglement

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Graduate Quantum physics computer program simulations

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Graduate Electron gas and Pauli principle

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Graduate Were There Ever Empirical Reasons to Bring Human Consciousness into QM?

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Graduate Schrödinger's cat, pure or mixed state?

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Graduate Continuity equation equalling a complex number

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Undergrad Hermitian Operator: Definition & Overview

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Graduate Does Non-Commutativity Explain Quantum Mechanics' Core Principles?

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Graduate This is a nonsensical question about wavefunctions

  • tomothy
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Graduate Would traveling faster than the speed of light solve the entanglement issue?

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Graduate QM and Relativity: Can They Coexist in the Explanation of Gravity?

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Graduate Help with a review question please Test tomorrow

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Graduate Two separate renormalization group equations?

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Graduate Spin 1/2 Correlation: Chance of Measuring Spin Down

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Graduate Dirac Delta function as a Fourier transform

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Graduate Equations that arise when General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are merged.

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High School What is charge? i do not want to hear that it is of two kind

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Graduate Collapse of the wave function, help understand

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Graduate Can Normalizing a Wave Function be Simplified Using Trig Identities?

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Graduate Solving a classical problem using quantum physics

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Graduate Proving the multiverse theory through partial differential equations

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Graduate QM and Classical System Coupled

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Undergrad How did they measure the charge of electron

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Graduate How to normalize wave functions in QFT? such as \lambda \phi 4 theory?

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Graduate Quantum entanglement of spin along multiple orthogonal axes

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Graduate Rotational and vibrational spectroscopy

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Graduate Wave/Particle Duality: Observing Reality Differently?

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Graduate Measurements of the second kind and unitary treatment

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Graduate Mastering Basic Bra-Ket Algebra: Tips and Techniques for Solving Problems

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Graduate What is the difference between neutrinos and anti-neutrinos?

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Graduate Do expectation values vary with time?

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Graduate Stationary electron broglie wavelength

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Graduate What is the meaning of the imaginary part of the plane wave function

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Graduate Relations between classical and quantum time-evolution of fields

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Undergrad Why Does Electron Energy Have Negative Values?

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Undergrad Planck's Constant, what does it mean?

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Graduate Why do Majorana particles occur?

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Graduate Do SUSY particles have antiparticles counterparts?

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Graduate Interference terms in particle spin

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Graduate What Are the Key Differences Between Quantum and Classical Correlation?

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Graduate Unlocking Schrödinger's Equation Through Multivariable Calculus

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Graduate Quant.Entanglement: Comparing Superposition Spin and Unknown Spin

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Graduate Eigenvectors, spinors, states, values

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Graduate HOW can entanglement be observed experimentally?

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Graduate Calculating the expectation of a quantity using wavefunctions

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Graduate Question about planck lengths/quantized space and expanding space?

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Graduate Solving schrodinger, reflection coefficient

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Graduate COMPLETE Derivation of Heisenberg and Hubbard Models?

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Graduate What is the difference between a wavefunction and a state in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Can Someone Explain the Ac Stark Shift in Layman's Terms

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Graduate I am looking for an explanation of heavy electrons

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Graduate Bosons and Fermions in a rigorous QFT

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Graduate Can Quantum Chaos Theory Unravel the Mysteries of Biology?

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Graduate The Limitations of the Dirac Sea in Explaining Particle Motion

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Make Teleportation Believable in Fiction?

  • Quentin Nokov
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Graduate Sackur-Tetrode - why Planck's constant?

  • Rap
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser and other oddities + their meaning

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Graduate My diabolical scheme for Quantum Immortality

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Graduate Torque-Free Precession in Classical & Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Construction of Hamiltonian for interacting optical fields

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Graduate Technical difficulties in calculating hydrogen probabilities

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Undergrad Converting Uncertainty in Millimeters to Meters for Radius Calculation

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Graduate Understanding GHZ Entanglement

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Graduate Path Cancellation: Can a Particle Come From Point A?

  • StevieTNZ
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Graduate Are boson fields the adjoint of the fermionic field they couple to?

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Undergrad Why world looks chaos on atomic scale but it is uniform on higher scale?

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Graduate How Can We Understand the Hilbert Space in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate What's the Verdict on "Quant-ph/9905077"?

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Graduate Writing Product States: When to Use a Sum?

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Graduate Other means of quantum teleportation.

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Graduate How fundamental are complex numbers in quantum theory?

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Graduate Expectation Values: Formula & Derivation

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Graduate Is inner product a measurement in quantum computation?

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