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Graduate Exclusion Principle application to very large systems

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Graduate Two-Photon Experiment: Correlation, Factorization, and Polarization

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Undergrad Is there an equation for the energy loss of a photon in different media?

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Graduate Path integral and partition function

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Graduate Time derivative of an observable

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Undergrad What Are the Best Lasers for Optics Experiments?

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Graduate Is the S-matrix at high energies affected by time dilation?

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Graduate Bose-Einstein condensate of photons

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Graduate How can I ignore information in my wave function?

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Graduate Question about quantum tunneling?

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Graduate How Does a Laser Differ from a One-Atom Photon Amplifier?

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Graduate Question: How do symmetries and time evolution interact in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Probability amplitudes and photons

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Undergrad What is Information? Simplest Answer

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Undergrad The Distinction Between Fact and Opinion: Can it be Proven?

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Graduate Double slit in macroscopic world

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Graduate Is there anyting really entangled in Quantum Entanglement ?

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Graduate SHO Ladder Method missed states?

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Graduate Derive Schwarzschild Eq. without 4D Space/Tensors

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Graduate Is the Electromagnetic Field a Classical or Quantum Field?

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Graduate Examples of quantum mechanics predictions

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Graduate Wick's Theorem Proof (Peskins and Schroder)

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Graduate Wave function of a photon in a spherical cavity

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Graduate Solving the Schrodinger Equation: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

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Graduate All states are stationary, all observables are constant.

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Graduate Plane monochromatic wave is not physically realizable?

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Graduate Understanding the Identification Between SU(2) and O(3) Groups

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Graduate What Intuitive Insights Explain Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Question about evolution of a wave function

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Graduate Why this equation is an integral over all paths?

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach experiment when magnetic field varies from 0 to B

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Graduate Testing Quantum vs. Classical Physics Predictions of Which-Way Double Slit

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Graduate Propagator Operator: Clarifying H Acting & Function of (t-t')

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Graduate How Do Observation and Measurement Differ in Quantum Experiments?

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Graduate Representation Theory and Particle Theory

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Graduate Rest energy in Schrodinger's equation

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Undergrad Mass Spectrometry: Understanding Boron Isotopes

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Graduate Understanding Black Holes: Quantum Physics and Hawking Radiation Explained

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Graduate Problem with quantum entanglement of photons

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Graduate Radio waves emitted by an antenna - Bremsstrahlung radiation?

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Graduate How many photons are emitted by accelerating electron?

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Graduate Simple question about vector spaces and bases in QM

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High School Young Double Slit Experiment Help

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Graduate Electromagnetic attraction. How?

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Undergrad Very basic quantum mechanics questions

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Graduate How is it possible that 3d orbitals are more contracted than 4f?

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Graduate Extent of indeterminacy in the double-slit experiment

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Graduate Particle at the edge of nothing

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Graduate What Causes Light to Behave Differently in the Double-Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Do have virtual particles gravity?

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Graduate How Are Probability Amplitude Arrows Drawn as Spirals in Feynman's Lectures?

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Graduate Covariant deriv of matrix valued field(srednicki)

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Graduate What physically causes the energy to make subatomic particles move?

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Graduate Question about the Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate Is Energy the Glue of Entanglement?

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Graduate Exploring the Relationship Between Wave Functions and the Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Dirac algebra (contraction gamma matrices)

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Undergrad Seeking a satisfying explaination for a bond formation problem

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DETERMINISM OR RANDOM? Pick a side

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Graduate Mastering Functional Derivatives in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Page13 on Griffiths quantum mechanics

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Graduate Observed intensity of Persistent Lines of Neutral Hydrogen

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Graduate In string theory, what are the small strings physically made out of?

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Graduate Stimulated Emission has no sufficient proof?

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Undergrad Difference between two wave functions?

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Amazing Quantum Levitation Demonstration Video

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Graduate Why is Gaussian Packet the lower limit?

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Graduate Quantum physics underlining the 'magic numbers' in chemical bonding & more.

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Graduate Quantum Computers: Auxiliary State Explained

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Graduate How does U(1) guage symmetry lead to Maxwell's equations?

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Undergrad My thought on double slit experiment

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Graduate Understanding the Physical Significance of Operator Commutation

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Undergrad What is the significance of charge neutralization in physics?

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Graduate Does Noether theorem apply to gauge symmetry?

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Graduate Average value in superposition question

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Graduate Unclear formulation of Ward identity

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Graduate Can one tell me if the treatment of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer in

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Graduate Expectation value in a linear superposition

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Undergrad Conservation of momentum photoelectric effect

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Graduate Probability density doesn't oscillate with time

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Graduate Energy of a QM system, stationary states

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Graduate Gaussian Wavepacket: Position-Momentum Uncertainty

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Graduate Why energy level of one dimension problem is descrete?

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Graduate The ln(m^2) term in dimensional regularization

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Graduate Are electron energy transitions instantaneous

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Graduate Double Slit - Observation Appartaus is Key?

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Graduate What is the purpose and meaning of Pauli/sigma matrices

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Graduate Uncertainty principle and single slit experiment

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Graduate Questions about Rigged Hilbert Space

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Graduate Energy is borrowed from the vacuum /Virtual Particles

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Graduate Length contraction on quantum scale?

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Graduate Hypothetical Question of Virtual Particles and Magnets

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Graduate Appearing out of nothing with defined characteristics?

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Graduate Does the Einstein -Hilbert Lagrangian has a potential term?

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Graduate Spurion & Symmetry: Meaning, Breaking & Explanations

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Graduate Negative off-diagonal elements in density matrix?

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Graduate Angular momentum operators for bosons

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Graduate Nonlocality: correlation vs causation

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Graduate What distinguishes observation from measurement in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What if I'm the Schrodinger's Cat?

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