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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?

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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 Why is the expectation value formula defined with the operator?

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Graduate Is inner product a measurement in quantum computation?

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Graduate Understanding Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate What the heck is meant by Pauli force/effect ?

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Graduate Can Entangling Separate Photon Pairs Affect Previously Measured Photons?

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Graduate Generating function of n-point function

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Graduate Spin 1/2 and 720 degree rotation

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics to a Newcomer

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High School Slit pattern, vertical or horizontal?

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Graduate Why does a 45-degree mirror reflection cause a π/2 phase shift in photons?

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Graduate In electron/photon interactions does the handedness of the photon matter?

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Graduate What Causes Quantum Locking in Levitation Videos?

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Graduate Questions in Weinberg The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol 1

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Graduate Can changes in spring constant affect the eigenstates of a harmonic oscillator?

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High School Getting Started with Quantum Mechanics: Advice for High School Students

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Graduate Plotting real and imaginary parts of the dielectric function

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Graduate What Is the Wavelength of the Earth According to De Broglie's Equation?

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Graduate How can reality be non local and its expression be local.

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Graduate Where does the radial probability of an electron equation come from?

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Graduate Can particles be distinguished if they can decay into each other?

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Graduate How Does Proximity to Other Atoms Affect Electron Orbit Transitions?

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Graduate Can Randomness and Causality Coexist Logically?

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Graduate Experimentally, how well tested is Born's rule?

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Graduate The Singularity: A Fundamental State of Energy Before the Big Bang?

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Graduate Does the weak force violate conservation of charge?

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Graduate Density matrix elements, momentum basis, second quantization

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Graduate How can we expand product of two currents into series?

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Graduate Does Energy Redistribution in Wave Interference Happen Superluminally?

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Graduate Schrödinger equation in terms of phase and modulus

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Graduate Why is Hadronic Vacuum Polarization a Matrix Element of Current Products?

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Graduate Relation between spontaneous emission, absorption and re-emission

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Graduate Mystery of the lost degree of freedom in a gauge theory

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Graduate Is stokes vector can be a quantum state?

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Graduate Can a Temporary 'Mark' Affect the Double Slit Interference Pattern?

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Graduate Scattering - quantum electrodynamics

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Graduate Bell's Theorem - Easy explained

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Graduate Building a Lagrangian out of Weyl spinors

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Graduate Learning tensor operators from Shankar chapter 15.3

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Graduate Delayed double slit experiment

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Graduate Perturbation of 2D Oscillator along one axis

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Graduate Aspect's experiment, bell's inequality, neutrino faster than 'c'.

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High School The Requirement of integer orbitals

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Graduate Mass/Energy of W Boson: Where Does it Go?

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Graduate Can a potential act in a small region of spacetime?

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Graduate Is the Hydrogen Atom Stable in Relativistic Quantum Theory?

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Graduate Path Integral/Canonical Quantization of Gauge Theories

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Graduate Quantum entanglement,Is it possible

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Graduate Is The Dual Nature of Mass Affecting Astronaut Brains in Space?

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Undergrad When electrons jump why photon

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Graduate Why isn’t time-dependent Schrodinger equation separable?

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Graduate Create Boson: Know Pion vs Other?

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Graduate Breit equation/relativistic QM and simplifications

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Graduate How Quantum Theory Explains Human Consciousness

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Graduate Can I assume this is a travelling wave?

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Graduate How can a particle have infinite positions in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What are the states and equations of the Gluon Octet in SU(3)?

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Graduate How to debunk new age Quantum physics crankery

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Graduate Question on quantum entanglement mechanism

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Graduate Some questions regarding decoherence

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Energies of a particle in a box vs. free particle?

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Graduate Orbital Angular Momentum Origin

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Graduate Photon classical or nonclassical object?

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Graduate Semiclassical descriptions of atom-light interaction

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Graduate Is there empty space with null energy?

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Graduate Rotational Quantum Number J: Understanding Its Role in Microwave Spectroscopy

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Graduate Can a de Broglie wavelength be smaller than the Planck length?

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Graduate How is the length of a particle in a box polyene determined?

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Graduate How fast do wave packets typically spread out?

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Graduate Is there such a thing as an anti-gluon?

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling and Deuterium Fusion

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Graduate Purely electric quantum tunneling fusion

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Graduate Can You Change Photon Polarization Without Affecting Entanglement?

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Undergrad Do Electrons Exhibit Electromagnetic Fields Like Photons?

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Graduate Total nuclear spin of deuteron

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Graduate How Do Operators and Integrals Connect in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Bell's Theorem and the detector

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Graduate Helps on understanding different representation transformations

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Graduate Renormalization Group for dummies

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Graduate Entanglement/Nonlocality question

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Graduate Why triplet state |1,0> is considered parallel ?

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Undergrad Uncertainty principle and particle accelerators

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Graduate Learning quantum physics with minimal math background

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Graduate What is quantum entanglement and how does it relate to Schrödinger's cat?

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Graduate What is the definition of integration on operators?

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Graduate Why doesn't the Scully-Yoon-Ho experiment show interference at D0?

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Graduate Can Entangled Photons Be Used for Instantaneous Morse Code Communication?

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Undergrad Why is energy proportional to frequency?

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Graduate Does the Quantum Zeno Effect Contradict the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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