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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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