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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 What does spurion mean and how does it break symmetry?

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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 Are nonlocal correlations and nonlocal causation fundamentally different?

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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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Graduate Normalization of vacuum state.

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Graduate Proof of orthonormality of the hamiltonian when not real

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Graduate Understanding Photon Slowdown and Acceleration in Material-Filled Space

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Graduate Kobayashi Maskawa Matrix Error ?

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Graduate Does Schrödinger's cat collapse its own wave function?

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Graduate Is the Quantum Casino's Use of Euler's Formula Misleading?

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Graduate What is Seen in Atom Photographs?

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Graduate Why doesn't the Stern Gerlach field exert torque on the magnetic moment?

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Undergrad Quantum Computers: Why They're Faster

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Graduate Schroedinger equation with angular momentum operators

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Graduate Plank's constant, phase integral and quantization of action

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Graduate Single slit single particle interference

  • San K
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Graduate Layman's questions regarding Measurement Problem

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Graduate Deriving Equations for Pure State Quantum System

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Graduate About expansion of wave functions

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Graduate Dirac delta wave function impossible?

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Graduate In comparing different renormalization procedures why do we care about symmetry?

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Graduate Currents and the quantum effective action

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Graduate Bell's Theorem Correlations Velocity

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Graduate Does Quantum Entanglement Occur During Electron and Positron Collisions?

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Graduate BRST Symmetry and unphysical polarizations

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Graduate How Should We Define Spin Angular Momentum in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Why doesn't absorbed light reappear when electrons return to ground state?

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Graduate Is action quantized in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Superposition experiment question?

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Graduate Normalization Conditions of Wave functions

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Graduate Superluminal Light Propagation in Optical Fibres?

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Graduate Why ghost fields(Faddeev-Popov ghosts) must be ''ghost''?

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Graduate Is My Calculation of the Photon State in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Correct?

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Graduate What is adjoint representation in Lie group?

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Graduate Quantum mechanical derivation of ohm's law?

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Graduate Angular Momentum the Full Operator Approach

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Graduate Albert's narrative argument against Everett-type theories

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Graduate Angular part of the wavefunction

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Graduate Can A Single Photon Be Split Into 45 and 135 Degree Polarization?

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Graduate Chern-Simons and massive A^{\mu}

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Graduate What is the interpretation of the Dirac equation and its current operator?

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Graduate Bra-ket notation Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Arbikosov vortex and Heisenberg

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Graduate Feynmann's electron double slit experiment

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Undergrad Does a molecule really take on the shape like the VSPER model?

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Graduate Lay Hypotheisis on the Universe (Do you think this is plausible?)

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Graduate SU(2)L, SU(2)R, other symmetric groups and SSB

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Graduate Is Time an Entropic Result of Space?

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Undergrad Why do photon pathways cancel out instead of taking one path?

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Graduate Why do wave packets expand over time?

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Undergrad Beginner-friendly explanations of nonlocality in Bell's Theorem

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Graduate What exactly is intrinsic angular momentum (spin)?

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Undergrad Why do electrons absorb light and jump to higher energy levels?

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Graduate Does non-locality threaten spacetime if the wave function is physical?

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Undergrad Wysips transparent solar cell.

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Graduate Superselection Rule Results from Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate What happens to an electron when a photon is reflected?

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Graduate Is superposition dependant on the measurement of sound as well as sight?

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Graduate Can we probe electrons with neutrinos to avoid the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Why is Casimir operator to be an invariant of coresponding Lie Algebra?

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Graduate How you come up with the wave func. in the first place?

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Graduate Superposition in quantum computing

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Graduate Why explain with both vectors and functions

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Graduate How long does a wavefunction stay in a collapsed state?

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Graduate Entangled photon polarization correlation

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Graduate Path Integral Basics (Why dimension increases in the integrals?)

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Graduate What is the density of states?

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Undergrad Can light excite an electron from ground state to a higher state?

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Graduate Peskin Equation (7.51): Analytic Continuation and Validity

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Graduate Energy-momentum tensor for the Dirac spinor

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Graduate Pion decay and neutrino oscillation in OPERA

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Graduate Klein Gordon equation and particles with spin

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Graduate How many ''charges'' are there in SU(2) and SU(3) symmetry?

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Graduate The state space in quantum field theory

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Graduate Cancellation of infrared divergence

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Graduate What is the AC Stark effect?

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Graduate Classical Stat Mech with Uncertain Initial Conditions vs. Quantum

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Graduate Does a unitary quantum cloner create macro superposition and CHSH violation?

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Graduate The QED experiments Feynman describes in his Auckland lectures on Vega website

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Graduate How to find the Majorana matrices?

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Graduate Even Wave Function in 1D Symmetric Potentials: Can We?

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Graduate Completeness of eigenvectors in a complete, commuting set

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Graduate How does the uncertainty principle work if measurement disturbs momentum?

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Graduate Decoherence and the randomness of collapse

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Graduate Quantum Zeno Effect and quantum decay

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Graduate Given a potential, qualitatively deducing the energy levels?

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Graduate How to Calculate Clebsh-Gordan Coefficients in Fortran?

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Graduate Spatial representation of field commutator

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Graduate Can one learn Q.Physics self taught?

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Graduate Physical meaning of zero eigenvalue

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Graduate Why symplectic symmetry has N(N+1)/2 generators?

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