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Graduate Annihilation operator acting on a Fock state

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Graduate Meaning of Peskin equation (7.25)

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Graduate Poisson Bracket to Commutator, What Does it REALLY Mean?

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Graduate Does Pauli's Exclusion Principle Apply to the Entire Universe?

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Graduate Why Superselection Rules are Physically Impossible

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Graduate If one generator commutes with all other,why must it be generator of U(1)?

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Graduate Bell inequality experiments and photon polarisation issue

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Graduate Can I Start with Leonard Susskind's QFT Lectures Without Prior Courses?

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Graduate Understanding Wave Function and Schrodinger Wave Equation

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Graduate Hamiltonian and Commuting operators

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Graduate Energy release from Graviton / Higgs Boson

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Graduate Why isn't p^4 Hermitian for hydrogen-like l=0 wavefunctions?

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Graduate Angular Momentum Eigenvalues/Significance of QN l

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Graduate Why the even Eigen states have less energy than odd ones?

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Graduate Is angular momentum something that is characteristic for a particle?

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Graduate Can U(1) gauge theory describe the color and weak forces?

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Graduate Physical mechanism for decoherence?

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Graduate What happens to the amplitude of a photon in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Would time travel to the past be possible if ?

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Graduate Hidden Variable - How to calculate the straight line

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Graduate Effective mass of Dirac electron increased by electrostatic potential?

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Graduate How can Black Holes emit radiation?

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Graduate History/Derivation of multi-particle wave functions?

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Graduate Excitation by photons smaller than energy interval

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Graduate Why is an Electric Current Necessary to Measure the Casimir Effect?

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Graduate What Are Potential Wells in Lennard Jones Potential?

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High School Difference between static and magnetic attraction

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Graduate Why do gluons and W and Z bosons have a limited range?

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Graduate Momentum Operator w/ Dirac Delta Potential: Justification

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Graduate Quantum Zeno Effect and Decoherence

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Graduate The Discontinuity of Wave Functions in a Dirac Delta Potential

  • hokhani
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Graduate Dirac Notation in building Path Integrals

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Graduate Finding particle momentum from energy and potential difference

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Graduate Derivation of the one-particle Green's function?

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Graduate No 2 electrons can have the same energy state

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Graduate Can real bodies deviate from Planck's law?

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Graduate Measure for momentum in curved space

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High School What do pervading and aether mean?

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Graduate Tap Dark Energy for Energy Needs: Ideas and Questions

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Graduate Noob to PF, Quantum Foam question triangles?

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Graduate Why does the fine structure constant have its value?

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Graduate Why are there no well-defined energy states in nature?

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Graduate Brian Cox explain Pauli exclusion principle

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Graduate Angular momentum and the hydrogenic atom

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Graduate Understanding Peskin's Argument for Equation 6.46

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Graduate What Is the Explanation for Quantum Mechanics at the Quantum Scale?

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Graduate Why is z-axis so special in hydrodgen problem?

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Graduate Momentum Operator question - Proof found in Intro to Griffiths QM

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Graduate Klein-Gordon Equation: Derivation of Density Relativistic Transform

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Graduate Why do L² and L_z form a CSCO?

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Graduate Writing single particle states in Peskin and Schroeder notation

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Graduate Possible Paths and Interference Patterns in the Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate Can entangled particles separated by an event horizon maintain correlations?

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Graduate Instanton contribution to two point function

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Graduate Are electrons trapped in their own magnetic fields?

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Graduate Are Current Experiments Impacting Quantum Coherence in Consciousness?

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Graduate Renormalization group and universality

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Graduate What information does Schwinger's result for the harmonic oscillator propagator give?

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Graduate Why does the momentum of a matter wave depend on the phase velocity?

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Undergrad Difference between orbits and orbitals

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Graduate Dirac Principle Value Identity applied to Propagators

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Graduate How to block tunneling current?

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Graduate How Does Rotating the Local Basis Affect Quantum Entanglement of Photons?

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Graduate Why the Lagrangian must involve derivative of field?

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Graduate Measuring classical object to arbitrary precision

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Graduate How is the transition amplitude formula derived from the Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Wave-Function, Fourier Transform, and Speed

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Graduate Can Virtual Particle Lifetimes Be Calculated?

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Graduate Proposal for a Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment

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Graduate Is Gravity Affected by All Types of Energy?

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Graduate Does CMBR include free photons?

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Graduate In QED is angular momentum conserved at every order in Dyson series

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Graduate Prerequisites for beginning quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Do the electrons have inertial mass?

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Graduate QFT Signature: Does it Have its Own Unique Formula?

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Graduate Inner product with maximally entangled state

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Graduate Are space and time quantized quantities?

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Graduate Understanding Entanglement and Parallel Computing in Quantum Computing

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Graduate Ground state wave function for H=(1/2)p²+(1/24)λ(x²-v²)²

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Graduate How does reflection work at the quantum level?

  • AdamBenHamo
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Graduate Which slit/way at time of observation or passing slits?

  • San K
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Graduate Directional photon detector to detect which path?

  • Colin Mitch
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Graduate What theories address the fundamental questions about quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Having difficulty comprehending a problem in Peskin's text

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Graduate What does the Higgs Field have in common with Congress?

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Graduate Pauli's exclusion principle Intrpretation

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Graduate Problem in constructing Matrix representation in |↑↓> basis

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Graduate Why are mutually exclusive states orthogonal?

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Graduate Quantum teleportation of macroscopic objects

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Graduate Why is Bell's theorem valid if Jaynes' objections are sound?

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Graduate Absorber Theory, Retarded and Advanced Potentials

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Graduate Wheeler's Delayed Choice bibliography

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Graduate A composite system of three particles with different spin

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Graduate Velocity Measurement in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Application of schrodinger's equation

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Graduate Governing laws of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Are Photons Actually Infinitely Small Particles?

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Undergrad Why Does the Zeeman Effect Vary in Cadmium and Other Elements?

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Graduate Is the Classical Electric Potential a Valid Approximation in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Superposition/Wave function inside blackhole

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