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Graduate Hamiltonian describing energy transfer to bloch Electron from EM field

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Graduate Electron spin, magnetic field, and measurement uncertainty

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Graduate Landau quantization of cyclotron orbit

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Graduate Can you make a definition of velocity in QM ?

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Graduate Why only energy eigenstates in equilibrium statistical mechanics

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Graduate Uncertainty principle, virtual particle pairs and energy

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Graduate Why do wave functions make quantum computers faster than digital logic?

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Undergrad Who First Plotted the Spectral Radiancy Curve and When?

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Graduate Probability waves - instant infinite extent?

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Graduate Eigenvaules and quantum numbers

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Graduate Light polarization vs photons spin

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Graduate SU(N) symmetry in harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Question related to quantization of the magnetic field

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Graduate I need just ONE analytic solution to the time-dependent Schrodinger Equation.

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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 Does wave-function collapse emerge from tracing out the observer in composite systems?

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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 Does path integral formalism deny that past events actually occurred?

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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 Finding normalization constant for ψ(x,t) = [b² - (x - vt)²]⁻¹

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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 How do qubits differ from classical 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 How do electron-positron collisions convert particles to photons?

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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 Do electromagnetic fields from magnets carry mass?

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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 Why doesn't the electron collapse into the nucleus in Bohr's 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 How does quantum mechanics describe photon emission from excited atoms?

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Graduate Does quantum randomness need to play a role in evolution?

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Graduate Maxwell's equations and Quantum Physics

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Graduate Transverse susceptibility in ladder approximation with retarded/advanced Green's functions

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Graduate Interference of electron waves in an atomic orbital

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Graduate Zurek's envariance derivation of Born rule and Bohmian mechanics

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Graduate Eigenvalues and ground state eigenfunction of a weird Hamiltonian

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