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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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Graduate Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principal and the definition of randomness

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Graduate What is the physical system that follows the Pauli exclusion principle?

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Graduate Quantum entanglement and wireless electricity

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Graduate 1st order pertubation on 2 level system

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Graduate Could Zero-Point Energy Be Weaponized?

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Graduate 1st order Pertubation energy and wavefunction

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Undergrad Light intensity and polarization

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Graduate Position and Momentum Operators

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Graduate If all states are stationary, what causes atoms to radiate then?

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Graduate My personal criticism to Quantum theory and Human conscience

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Graduate Fine structure correction in H atom

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Graduate 2 Time Dimension in the Quantum Realm?

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Graduate Why Consider Our Position Between Past and Future in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Solution of Schrodinger equation for free electron

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High School Does light lose any any energy in a vacuum?

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Graduate Need a book that explains linear vector space

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Graduate Verifying Lorentz algebra commutation relations from Peskin & Schroeder 3.18

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Graduate Updates on Penrose Quantum Mirror Experiment

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Graduate Pauli Matrices: Calculating Expression

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Graduate Misunderstanding about measuring the spin of the electron

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Graduate Scattering theory - Regular solution

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Graduate Is light a photon or a wave? (concrete question)

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Graduate Two-level atom Hamiltonian transformation with Wigner D matrix

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Graduate Are Units Truly Fundamental in Physics According to Duff's Theory?

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Graduate Do Gravitons Attract Other Gravitons?

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Graduate Can neutrons be used to stablize other particles?

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Graduate Is the following correct about virtual particles

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Graduate Hamiltonian with position spin coupling

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Graduate How Virtual Particles Give Rise to the electromagnetic force

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Graduate Wigner Matrix or Wigner D-Matrix?

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Undergrad Do Electrons Behave Like Bar Magnets?

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Graduate Can quantum superposition help decide poker hands?

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Graduate Electronic Excitation: Absorbing and Re-emitting Photons

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Graduate Entanglement & GR: Can We Measure Universe Info?

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Graduate Is Feynman's QED book still relevant to modern quantum physics?

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Graduate Are wave functions and quantum waves synonyms?

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Undergrad How does the LS coupling scheme work?

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Undergrad Alpha Decay from Uranium: Electrical or Strong Nuclear Force?

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Graduate A Bell Theorem with no locality assumption?

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Graduate New (apparent) confirmation of virtual particles.

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Graduate Is biological life a product of a probability wave

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Graduate Quantum fluctuations and momentum

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Graduate Virtual particles and quantum fluctuation

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Undergrad Phonon vs Photon: What's the Difference?

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Graduate Physical significance of normalizing a wave function?

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Graduate Quantization of vector field in the Coulomb gauge

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Graduate The double slit and wave particle nature.

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Graduate What is the definition of particle(s) in QM?

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Graduate Electric charge in quantum field theory

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Graduate Square of modified Dirac equation

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Graduate Where in physics does randomness occur?

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Graduate Stability of Unstable Particles at High Energies: Third Generation

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Graduate Calculating Vacuum Fields at Different Frequencies

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Graduate Is True Randomness Possible in Our Determined Universe?

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Graduate Typo error or correct wavefunction?

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Graduate What is the explanation for the sequence in the Mandl QFT textbook (p.53)?

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Graduate Why Is Spin-Orbit Coupling Selective in Phosphorescence Transitions?

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Undergrad I am trying to figure out how to refer to two overlapping uncertainty

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Graduate Propagator for matrix fields (based on Srednicki ch80, p490)

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Graduate Why quantum mechanics doesn't scale to macro objects

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Graduate Expectation value of a product of operators

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Graduate How to form a picture in mind of coherent state?

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Graduate Speed of transmission in quantum entanglement

  • San K
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Graduate Fate and Schrodinger's Equation

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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat - your opinions

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Graduate Schrödinger equation in momentum space and number of solutions

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Graduate Stress energy tensor in extended standard model

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Graduate Why does partial trace over A give the reduced state's expectation value?

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Graduate Is there an interference pattern within a non-interference pattern?

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Graduate Can the 'shape' of the universe be described at the Plank scale?

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Graduate EPR and Lorentz transformation

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Graduate Are super-operators always writable in a basis independent form?

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Graduate Do virtual particles exist or not?

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Graduate What Does h.c. Signify in Quantum Mechanics Formulas?

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Graduate Can Free Particle Have Sharp Energy?

  • LarryS
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Graduate How is spin rotation measured?

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Graduate How to arrive at Bessel function solution to 1D polynomial potential

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Graduate Why Hermitian instead of self-adjoint?

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Graduate Why are identical particles indistinguishable?

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Graduate Question on observer of double-split experiment

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