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Graduate Why should Hawking radiation decrease a black hole's size?

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Graduate Quantum efficiency as a function of wavelength

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Graduate Schrödinger's cat contradiction

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Graduate How to Normalize and Integrate a Wave Function in the Range 0 to L?

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Graduate Chrial gauge theories and anomalies(Srednicki ch75-76)

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Graduate Box normalization of plane wave

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Graduate Question about measurement and unitary dynamics

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Graduate Virtual particles colliding with other virtual particles

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Graduate What is the Principle of Cluster Decomposition in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Confused by Feynman sum over histories

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Graduate Does Ward Identity in QCD has origin of U(1) or SU(3) symmetry?

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Undergrad Electron energy shells-where do they come from

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Graduate Commutation of Hamiltonian and time evolution operator

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Graduate Do particles have spatial extent or are they point-like?

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Graduate Normalization of a wavefunction

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Graduate Is Quantum Physics Non-Locality According to Einstein, Podolski, and Rosen?

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Graduate Bohm's Hidden Variable Model: Distinguishing from Einstein's Vision

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Graduate Is there evidence for a local hidden variable model in quantum physics?

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Graduate I know that renormalisation has to do with getting rid of unwanted

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Graduate Relaxation Rate for Single Qubit Decoherence Time

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High School Difference and benefits of qubits compared to regular bits?

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Graduate Trying to understand Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in a physical sense

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Graduate Choas and the bridge from Classical to Quantum physics

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Graduate Can someone explain what a propagator is and does?

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Graduate How do you visualize the spin of electron in your head?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: What is Quanta?

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Graduate Why is there a forbidden energy gap in solid state electronics?

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Graduate 2nd order perturbation calculation for a system involving spins

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Graduate Why is it path integral formalism being a ''quantization'' procedure?

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Graduate Virtual Photons over Large Distances

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Graduate Understanding Interference Between Spin States

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Graduate Is there a limit to information storage on the surface of a black hole?

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Graduate Loophole-free quantum steering

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Graduate Communication via Quantum Entanglement

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Graduate The science behind the conversion of particles to other particles

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Graduate Observer independent collapses?

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Graduate Is Feynman's QFT Unitarity Issue Resolved?

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Graduate Bohr Model and wave-particle duality

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Undergrad Explaining Electromagnetic Fields: Mass and Distance

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Graduate Quantum Information and Brain neurons

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Graduate Unitary Transformation: Proving ¯UU = 1 in Dirac's Text

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Undergrad Question About Bohr's Quantified Shell Model

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Graduate Matrix elements of the secular determinant for trial functions?

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Graduate Is the Expectation Value of Momentum for a Superposition of Sine Functions Zero?

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Graduate Energy time uncertainty principle

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Graduate Do the eigenfunctions for the position operator form an orthogonal set?

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Graduate What Are the Consequences of Breaking U(1) in Electroweak Theory?

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Graduate I must be discomprehending the Rutherford scattering cross section.

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Graduate Did John Wheeler Really Believe Consciousness Causes Collapse?

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Graduate Quantum computers and modelling a quantum computer on a classical computer

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Undergrad How do electrons become excited in an atom

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Graduate Lack of quantum effects at higher temperatures

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Graduate What if a particle had infinite mass?

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Graduate A thought on Quantum mechanics

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Graduate Ward-Takahashi identities from symmetry

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High School Why Do Square Holes in Bamboo Slats Create Round Light Patterns?

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Graduate Symmetric and Antisymmetric WF

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Graduate A question for Sakurai's advanced qm

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Graduate MSbar Renormalisation + Gamma Functions

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Graduate Schroedinger equation and random walks

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Graduate Understand Grover's Algorithm: Classical Problem vs Quantum Solution

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Large Scale Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate The physical meaning of a phase factor

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Graduate Quantum systems without a classical limit

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Graduate Deutsch's algorithm vs classical algorithm

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Graduate Are all eigenstates of observables orthogonal?

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Undergrad Photoelectric effect minimum frequency

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Graduate Non-invariance under 2-Pi rotations?

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Graduate Translational movement of a signal atom in a vaccuum?

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Graduate Newbie Schrodinger equation question

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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Challenge the Conservation of Matter Law?

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Graduate Is it Information or Interaction that Observes ?

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Graduate What does it mean if something Transforms Covariantly ? (Quantum Field Theory)

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Graduate Can Multiple Electrons in a Double Slit System Interfere With Each Other?

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Graduate Why do q's form a complete commuting set of observables?

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Graduate What is Pauli's Exclusion Principle and How Does It Apply to Fermions?

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Do your thought has vibration?

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Graduate Some system can be normalized, some can not

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Undergrad General operational theory of fluorescence is

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Graduate Explaining Electron Emission and Photon Interactions in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Webpage title: Does Real Quantum Randomness Play a Role in Evolution?

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Graduate Maxwell's equations and Quantum Physics

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Graduate Transverse Susceptibility, and doubts about retarded/advanced Green's Functions

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Graduate Interference of electron waves in an atomic orbital

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Graduate Is Bohmian Mechanics Incompatible with Free Will and the Creation of Art?

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Graduate Eigenvalues and ground state eigenfunction of a weird Hamiltonian

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High School Does Quartz vibrate without applying voltage?

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Graduate How do particles and waves interact in the quantum world?

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Graduate Does Deleting Which Path Data Restore Quantum Interference?

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Graduate Quantum theory, consciousness and existence

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Undergrad Electron centripetal acceleration

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Graduate Unified field theory impossible?

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Graduate Energy spectrum from a hamiltonian

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Graduate Why doesn't wave function collapse contradict Schrodinger equation?

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Graduate Schrödinger equation for particle on a ring in a magnetic field

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Graduate Angular dependence in QM: Why is it present in the hydrogen atom?

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Graduate Faster than light in Quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Probability of hand through a wall vs an electron

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Graduate Does anyone have information on how exactly a atomic clock works?

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Undergrad When do I use these equations for calculating linewidths?

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