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Graduate Orchestration of Quantum Entanglement

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Graduate Magnitude of the scattering ampliudes in QFT

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Graduate The dipole interaction and fermions

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Graduate Is space quantized or is it seamless and smooth?

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Graduate Do photons gain mass in the presense of a black hole?

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Graduate A question regarding finite potential wells

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Graduate How photon entanglement works?

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Graduate Is there lighter particle than photon?

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Graduate /The probability density does not goto zero at the nodes if

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Graduate Question on the nature of spacetime

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Graduate Do gamma and X-ray wavelength photons also exist as collapse able wave fx's?

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Graduate Is entanglement still considered spooky ?

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Graduate Why use phase factors in spin-1/2 eigenstate expressions

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Graduate Wave funtions for a massive particle moving in 1D harmonic oscillating potential

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Graduate What is (physical) information?

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Graduate Analytic Continutation of Quantum Statistical Mechanics

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Graduate Operators and commutors, and order.

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Graduate Something's wrong in < Intro to QM >, by Griffiths

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Graduate Non-covariant parts of the propagator?

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Graduate Understanding Spherical Symmetry in the Hydrogen Atom

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Graduate Intuitive diagrams for Feynman diagram

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Graduate Normalisation condition notation for wavefunctions

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Graduate Pauli Exclusion Principle and Black Holes

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Graduate Reflection vs scattering of photons in quantum field theory

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Graduate How Does Zee Derive the Double Factorial in QFT's Gaussian Integral?

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Graduate Can Extending the Delay in a Quantum Eraser Experiment Alter Past Events?

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How to Make a Delicious Pizza at Home

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement in a Human Brain

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Graduate Do virtual gnomes play a role in black hole physics?

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Graduate What is the Principle that gives particles their own actual size?

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Graduate Why are quantities called operators

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Graduate Are entangled photons in superposition of V/H and 45/135 polarisations?

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Graduate Why does the action vary to zero with respect to the field?

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Graduate Wavefunction vs EM wave of a Photon

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Graduate Feynman diagrams for more than two particles

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Graduate What is the physical interpretation of bra-ket notation in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What is the momentum operator in different bases and how can it be obtained?

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Graduate Expectation values for expanded wave functions

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Undergrad Photon detector used in Young's Double Slit experiment?

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Graduate Wavefunction collapse with a single photon?

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Graduate What is the role of fields in Quantum Field Theory (QFT)?

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Graduate Is Wick rotation necessary to define quantum field theory?

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Graduate Parity operators and anti commutators

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Graduate What is the opposite of realism in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Questions on Aitchison's gauge theories book chapters 1-2

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Graduate How does measurement not collapse the superposition in quantum computing?

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Graduate How Does Path Integral Formalism Derive the Quantum Propagator?

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Graduate End of Realism? Experiments Test Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate 181* NMR pulse, atomic description

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Does Energy Decrease?

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Graduate 3 body relativistic phase space

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Graduate Is the ground state of a harmonic oscillator unique?

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Graduate Does Ghirardi's Thought Experiment Challenge Quantum Mechanics Predictions?

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Graduate Addition of Complex Term in Lippmann Schwinger Equation

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Graduate Destructive interference in electron diffraction

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Graduate Bra State Meaning: Negative Energy Possibility?

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Undergrad Revolution of electron and that of the planets

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Graduate Understanding Glauber Coherent States

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Graduate Can a black hole compress smaller than the Planck length?

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Graduate Renormalization massless phi4 theory in Peskin.

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Graduate Full quantum mechanical description of the double slit experiment

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Graduate How Does QFT Describe or Predict the Position of a Particle?

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Graduate Do detectors measure energy in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Extra term in Velo-Zwanziger's hermitian form

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Graduate How Many Quantum Numbers Define a Spin 1/2 Particle's State?

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Graduate Determination of time-dependent coefficients (QM)

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Graduate Does the time dependent hamiltonian have stationary states?

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Graduate Number of Photons and wavelength?

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Graduate Are all particles initially entangled or must entanglement be created?

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Graduate Why is the imaginary unit i in the momentum operator definition?

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Graduate Why we do not consider the divergence due to mass-shell in QED?

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Graduate How Does the Born Series Expansion Translate to Spatial Representation?

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Graduate What is the meaning of a collinear photon in Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)?

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Graduate Guage symmetry - invariance under arbitrary phase change

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Graduate What does state mean in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Why are nuclear excited states always eigenstates of parity?

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Graduate Basic questions on collisions, particles

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Undergrad Can Light Travel Faster Than Speed of Light

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Graduate Coherence Domain in Living System

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Graduate What Determines Critical Boson Exchange Rates in Sub-Atomic Interactions?

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Graduate The Dirac delta in squere root of the absolute value

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Graduate Why does wave-function collapse occur?

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Graduate Faddov Ghosts and the non-Abelian Lagrangian

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Graduate If that other thing didn't break a rule in relativity, how about this?

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Graduate Time dependent Hamiltonians: features

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Graduate Question on particles/fields in QFT

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Graduate How Does Electron Degeneracy Allow White Dwarf Stars to Emit Light?

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Graduate Functions with operator valued arguments acting on eigenstates

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Graduate How can we solve IR divergences problem?

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Graduate Limit as distinguishable->indistinguishable

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Graduate QM focused Documentaries/lectures.

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Graduate About wavefunctions, their complex nature and their approximations?

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Graduate Do atoms violate thermodynamics and relativity?

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Graduate Can making a measurement change subsequent measurements?

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Graduate Global U(1) invariant of Dirac Lagrangian

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Graduate Neglecting terms in a Lagrangian

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Graduate Instanton configurations of an even anharmonic oscillator

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Graduate What is a photon in respect to electromagnetic waves?

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Graduate What's weird in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?

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