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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 Resources explaining how atomic clocks work

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Undergrad When do I use these equations for calculating linewidths?

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Graduate Tensor products of representation - Weyl spinors and 4vectors

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Graduate Do Photons Have Electromagnetic Properties That Cause Attraction?

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Graduate Expectation value , a few questions

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Graduate Are Quantum Waves Tangible or Merely Mathematical Constructs?

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Graduate Question Regarding Harmonic Oscillator Eigenkets

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Graduate Can you define quantum mechanics in just one sentence?

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Graduate Many Paths = Huygens’ Principle?

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Graduate Can the Bohr Model Accurately Predict Electron Energy in a Magnetic Field?

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Graduate Why does probability current follow superposition for wave packets?

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Graduate Ehrenfest Theorem: Deriving Minus Sign in Commutator

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Graduate Weak force and axial vector coupling

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Graduate Do quadrature operators violate the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate We make the world by participating in it

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Graduate Double Delta Function Potential

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Graduate Path integral for a particle coupled to a magnetic field

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Graduate Dirac Equation for H atom - what's the small r behaviour?

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Graduate Weak force vertex factor V - A

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Graduate What is the context of observation in this video?

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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Space's And Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Measurement disturbs the system.

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Graduate The Exponential of an infinite sum

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Graduate Quantum Model of an Atom with more than one electron

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Graduate Decomposing the direct sum as direct product

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Graduate Absorption of Light: IR, Visible & Hydrogen Atom

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Graduate Does measurement before time8 change predictions from Schrödinger's equation?

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Graduate Wondering about quantum information and phase factors.

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Graduate Why QFT is asymptotic theory but still being very useful?

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Graduate A couple of questions about quantum mechanics.

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Graduate Schrodinger Equation: No Higher Powers of ψ

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Undergrad Properties of Light and its Relationship to Strength

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Graduate Schrödinger's equation and line width

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Graduate Why do the forces of nature act on each other?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement FTL Thought Experiment

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Graduate The real meaning of probability density?

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Graduate Why is the Spectrum of Ordinary Light Bulbs Continuous?

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Graduate How is the strong force accounted for in mass defect?

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Graduate Can Particles Exist in Multiple Times Through Quantum Time Dilation?

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Graduate Does Spin Have Rotational Kinetic Energy?

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Graduate Ground state radiation question

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Graduate Modelling non ideal apparatus in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Energy level of hydrogen atom - with the electron replaced by a positron

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Graduate Six Superheavy Gluons: Fact or Fiction?

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Graduate A thought on Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Symmetrization Principle for Identical Particles with Different Spin

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Graduate How to do wick rotated surface int (srednicki ch75)

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Graduate Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Photoionization what will happen to compounds?

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Graduate Can macroscopic objects like rocks become entangled?

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Graduate Opposite spin of entangled photons

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Graduate What would happen if entangled particles experienced the twin paradox scenario?

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Graduate Weyl ordering of the hamiltonian

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Graduate Light waves, photons; sound waves, phonons; water waves, hydrons ?

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Graduate Single slit interfernce with large particels

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Graduate Photon polarization and 1/2 wave plates

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Graduate Do atoms always exist even when unobserved?

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Graduate Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can Length Contraction Cause Diffraction in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Expressing a Hermitian operator using its eigenstates

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Graduate Can someone clear up the implications of Planck units once and for all?

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Undergrad How to realize the stern gerlach experiment ?

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Graduate Why is an imaginary part necessary in the Lippmann-Schwinger equation?

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Graduate Representing the state of a quantum system in different bases

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Graduate Can People Collapse Wave Functions with their Eyes?

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Graduate Wheelers Delayed Choice Experiment?

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Graduate Debunking the Double Slit Experiment: Misinterpretations and Misrepresentations

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Undergrad Molecular orbital analysis - d0 complexes

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Graduate Point-like particles, Lorentz invariance and QM/QFT

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Graduate Hamilton-Jacobi Equation related to Schrodinger?

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Graduate Energy Eigenstates: Can Electron in Hydrogen Atom?

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Undergrad Most probable radii in hydrogen ?

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Graduate Lorentz Invariant Volume Element

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Graduate How does the quantum eraser experiment recover the interference pattern?

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Graduate Can You Distinguish a Vacuum State in Different Color Laser Pulses?

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Undergrad Can the Double Slit Experiment Be Conducted with C60 Molecules?

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Graduate Probability distribution of classical momentum

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Graduate Verifying Inner Product Space: q(x)e^-(x^2/2)

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Graduate Standard deviation for a determinate state of observable Q

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Graduate Classical Physics compared to Quantum Physics?

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Graduate When does quantum take over classical?

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Graduate Link between quantummechanical probabilistics and entropy

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Graduate Greiner Mueller's QM II Symmetry

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Graduate A question regarding a Hamiltonian.

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Graduate Separation of variables for non-central potentials

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Graduate Is Heisenberg uncertainty principle a problem of our measuring techniques?

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Graduate Momentum and Translation operator.

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Graduate Why does the inner produce in Hilbert space use fg* and not f*g?

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