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Graduate Gauge invariance of QED if the photon has a mass
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Graduate Discrete eigenvalues and their eigenfunctions
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Graduate If time travel is possible does it allow for violation of the no clone theorem
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Graduate Does QM end Free Will/ Determinism debate ?
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Graduate Are Vacuum Fluctuations and QM Connected in Feynman Diagrams?
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Graduate What is a reduced density matrix?
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Graduate Quantum mechanics or quantum theory?
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Graduate Problem with Talmi Transformation
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Undergrad Why does the stopping potential not depend on the intensity of incident light?
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Graduate How is quantum entanglement a fact?
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Graduate Mechanics of Stern-Gerlach Experiments Question.
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Graduate Understanding Scattering Theory: Seeking Easy-to-Read References
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Graduate What Happens to the Photons in Destructive Interference?
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Graduate Quantization of electromagnetic field
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Graduate How to couple the angular momenta of a massive particle and a massless one
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Graduate Two particles with parallel spins?
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Undergrad Charge attraction inside an atom
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Graduate 1D delta funtion potential well
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Graduate Half integer orbital momentum, following Griffiths
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Graduate Confusing step in Sakurai Chapter 1
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Graduate So if spin isn't really spin
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Graduate Phenomena only explicable via QM
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Graduate Proving the Identity to Demonstrating Finite Orthonormal Bases
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Graduate Does a photon's amplitude remain constant after emission?
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Graduate Normalization constant for orbital wave functions
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Graduate Why do operators need hermitian properties for real eigenvalues?
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Graduate Is a static electric field a superposition of photon frequencies?
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Graduate Position Representation in QFT?
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Graduate Is the purely wave interpretation really rejected in the 2-slit experiment?
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Graduate Photon Teleportation: Can it Really Happen?
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Balakrishnan's quantum physics lectures
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Graduate Why an electron never falls into a nucleus?
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Graduate What is the significance of pions as Goldstone bosons in quantum field theory?
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Graduate Alignment of Spin in const magnetic field.
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Graduate Does matter only exist when observed in quantum theory?
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Graduate How Do Different Dirac Matrix Choices Impact RQM Equations?
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Graduate Single Photon/Indistinguishabiliity principle experiment
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Graduate Beginner books on quantum information theory for undergrads
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Graduate What's the kinetic energy uncertainty for gaussian wave packet?
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Graduate Polarization 4-vectors to get matrix element in QFT
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Graduate Why ignore the potential term in the quantum Hamiltonian?
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Undergrad Does only light have quantized energy.
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Graduate Common misconceptions regarding quantum mechanics
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Graduate Sample Space for Free Particle in the general case
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Graduate Quantum state with well-defined position and momentum?
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Determinism and Free Will
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Graduate Clear and thorough development of the step potential wave function
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Graduate Can a fly be in a quantum superposition on a car antenna?
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Graduate Dyson's Instability: Negative Fine Structure Constant
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Graduate Why does the atom not fold onto itsef?
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Graduate How do 6 quarks manifest hiden SU(2) symmetry(together SU(3) symmetry)?
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Graduate Solving Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of Hamiltonian
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Graduate Demonstrating Orthonormality of Eigenfunctions for De Cero-Spin Field
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Graduate Pure States or Mixed States: What's the Difference in Quantum Mechanics?
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Dirac's papers disappeared from archive.org?
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Graduate Under what conditions will wave functions collapse in double slit experiments?
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Graduate Definition of a canonical variable
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Graduate Are points of spacetime unique?
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Graduate How to interpret wave function as a matrix
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Graduate How is the spin operator defined?
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Graduate Quantum fluctuations at different height.
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Undergrad What does magnetic moment mean exactly?
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Graduate Are These Wavefunctions Orthonormal in Spherical Coordinates?
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Graduate How Does Griffith Prove Psi Stays Normalized in Equation [1.25]?
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Graduate Theoretical Particles @ Planck Scale: Is there a maximum wavelength of light?
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Graduate Is decay of Z or W bosons exothermic?
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Graduate Understanding Multiple Delta Function in 1D and Multidimensional Spaces
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Graduate Is a pair of magic coins a good analogy for quantum entanglement?
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Undergrad With regards to wave functions
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Graduate Infinite square well potential
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Graduate How are bosons able to be separated in a Bose-Einstein condensate?
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Graduate Momentum Measurement Confusion
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Graduate Why do canonical commutation relations use ih times the commutator?
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Graduate Quantum Wave Collapse: Does Consciousness Play a Role?
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Graduate Quantum consciousness is ruining my life
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Graduate Wavefunction collapse and dirac delta functions
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Graduate Can Photons Undergo Einstein-Bose Condensation?
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Graduate How to determnine quantum numbers of hybridized orbitals?For
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Graduate Grassmann number and anti-commuting c-number?
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Graduate Do particles really emerge from the vacuum at random?
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Undergrad Why isn't kinetic energy considered a fundamental force like the other four?
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Graduate How are probabilistic equations of physics usually formulated?
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Graduate Path integrals and foundations of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Identity Operator Proving without Bra-Ket Notation
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Graduate Relation between coherent and Fock states of light
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Graduate Does wave function of an entangled particle collapse instantly?
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Undergrad How does tourmaline produce negative ion ?
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Graduate Quark decay and particle materialization
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Graduate Shankar's principles of quantum mechanics solutions
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Graduate Must we add QED correction to perturbative QCD?
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Graduate Additional understanding needed on proof involving Hermitian conjugates
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Graduate Is Faster-Than-Light Motion Possible According to E=mc^2?
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Graduate Angular momentum in bracket notation
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Graduate Change of Basis: Converting Wavefunction from S_z to S_x
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Graduate Are Coherent Superposition Particles Considered Conservative Systems?
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Graduate Why are Gaussian wave packets the only ones saturating the uncertainty principle?
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Undergrad Can a neutron absorb a photon?
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Graduate Three gluon vertex permutations in Srednicki equation 72.5
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Graduate How is momentum conserved when a particle/antiparticle pair is created?
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Graduate Electromagnetic field( though could be any field) produced by a quantum particle
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