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Graduate Superposition/Wave function inside blackhole

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Undergrad Electron and the uncertainty principle

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Graduate What is the Volume of an Electron?

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Graduate Statistical Mechanics: Using 3 Ensembles for Problem Solving

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Graduate Nature of Real Applications Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Why square the absolute value of probability amplitudes in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Why Do Subatomic Particles Spin?

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Graduate Can Measurements Determine Pure vs. Mixture Ensembles in Quantum Theory?

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Graduate Renormalization and running coupling constant

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Graduate What Do Bell Tests Reveal About Photon Polarization and Reality?

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Graduate Experiments in quantum entanglement

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Graduate What are the required mathematics for studying Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Is antimatter matter going backwards through time?

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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement the Secret Behind Photosynthesis?

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High School Question re electrostatic charge

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Graduate Quantum Effects Brought to Light

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Graduate How does time dilation affect entangled particles in a moving spaceship?

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Graduate Can quantum entanglement transmit information for cell phones?

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Graduate Why do energy eigenstates give position probability via |ψ(x)|²?

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Graduate Quantum Chaos: Existence and Stability

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High School Double slit experiment for AP physics

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Graduate How can information be conserved if we live in a quantum universe?

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Graduate Proof of uncertainty principle

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Graduate Proving a Claim in Ticcati's Red QFT Textbook: Seeking Advice and Hints

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Graduate Why is inertial mass not an observable in QM?

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Graduate What is normally meant by quantizing a classical theory, versus Hardy's axioms

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Graduate The Gauge Dependence of Quantum Transition Probabilities

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Graduate Potential energy as observable

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Undergrad Are Schrodinger's Equations Taught in Lower Division Physics Courses?

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Graduate We know that if we send one electron through 2 slit, the wave function

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Graduate Potential Invariant under translation

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Graduate How Does the Angle Between Axes Affect Spin Correlation in Entangled Particles?

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Undergrad Fictional connection between music and string theory

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Graduate Can virtual strings create more virtual particles?

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Graduate Time-dependent Schrödinger equation in perturbation theory

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Undergrad Prove that information is either increasing or remaining constant with time.

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Graduate Violation of uncertainty principle?

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Article: Faked States mimic quantum entanglement

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Graduate Does a symmetry of Lagrangian reserve in each Feynman diagram?

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Graduate Deriving Wien's Law from Planck's Formula

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High School Need an explanation of shells in layman's terms

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Graduate Is mass something that is uncertain ?

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Graduate What are the fundamental concepts and axioms of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What Is the Source of Spin-Orbit Coupling in the Hydrogen Atom?

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Graduate Does a single electron transistor really need the tunneling junctions?

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between K-Space and Momentum Space in Crystals?

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Graduate Second quantization question: one particle or n particle?

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Graduate QM Particles and their space boundaries

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Graduate Schrödinger's equation to Dirac's

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Graduate Why does D·exp(iy)−1 equal D−1+iy in Dirac's displacement operator?

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Graduate Scalar field as quantum operator.

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Graduate Is a finite function with finite Fourier transform possible?

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Graduate How does the commutator of fields relate to causality?

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Graduate Quantum Coherence in Transmembrane Proteins?

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Graduate Calculating the energy-momentum tensor for Maxwell Lagrangian

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Undergrad What causes the polarization effect in optics?

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Graduate Can we understand neutrinos as information?

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Graduate Not following one step for Ehrenfest's theorem

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Graduate On the complementarity principle

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Graduate Scope of Hilbert Space of a System?

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Graduate Can increasing the potential width α decrease the coupling constant λ?

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Graduate A 'Classical' object behaving Quantum?

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Graduate Standing Waves and Radiation Emission

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Graduate Quantum numbers in wikipedia's table

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Graduate Lorentz Transformation of Fields

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Graduate Do the Hamiltonians for a particle in a 1D box commute when the box length changes?

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Graduate Are photons in a laser beam independent and tensor products of single-photon states?

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Graduate What is so special about quantum entanglement?

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Graduate Why use second quantization and field operators

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Graduate What other experimental evidence exists for entanglement?

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Graduate Why do physicists believe the Planck scale is fundamental?

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Graduate Why the carrying force fields must be the fields of Boson particles?

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Graduate Density matrix's non-diagonal components

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Graduate Quantum mechanics texts starting from the canonical commutation relation

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Graduate Quantum Eraser and Its Implications

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Graduate Could aerogel slow down quantum levitation by retaining heat?

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Graduate Verification of probabilities for various states

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Graduate How do you integrate the Hopf term in 2+1 dimensions?

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Graduate Zeeman effect, something I'm not understanding, about history

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Graduate I want to understand positive operator valued measures in QM

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Graduate Questions regarding a paradox.

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Graduate Why Can't Free-Particle Wave Functions Be Normalized Over Their Entire Range?

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Graduate Quantum control of a looped beam.

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Graduate Normalization of a free particle quantum state

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Graduate Why wave function should goto 0 f faster than 1/sqrt(x) at infinity

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Graduate Photon Average Energy in a Cavity Resonator

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Graduate Learning Dirac Notation: Writing Hamiltonian for 3 States

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Graduate How Are Planck Time and the Expression \(\sqrt{\frac{\hbar c^5}{G}}\) Related?

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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Allow for a Time Operator?

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Graduate Is the Uncertainty Principle affected by the number of particles in a system?

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Undergrad Two hydrogen atom with same spin can form H_2?

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Graduate What is an Observer in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Proving Shouten identity in QFT

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Graduate Classically predicted ionisation energy of H

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Graduate Wavepacket Dispersion and how this links to particle behaviour

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Graduate The quantomic oscillator's amplitude

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Graduate Why does Lagrangian in QFT only include first order derivative of field?

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Graduate Why are eigenvalues the allowable values in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What corresponds to a static field in QFT

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Graduate How Does Polarization Relate to Photon Degeneracy?

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