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Undergrad Does an Electron Attract or Absorb a Photon?

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Graduate To find the linear momentum of a function

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Graduate Mathematical formulation of non-local dynamics in quantum mechanics and spacetime

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Graduate When can massless particle physics be derived from the m→0 limit?

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Graduate Questions about rigid rotating dumbbell molecule

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Graduate How long does it take an electric dipole to emit a photon?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and Useful Information

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Graduate Neutrinos faster than light speed? What do you guys think?

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Graduate Born oppenheimer approximation vs adiabatic approximation

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Graduate Interference between the particles

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Graduate Dirac Delta from Continous Eigenfunctions

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Graduate Action-at-a-distance in Sideways EPR-Bell?

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Graduate Why the renormalization group flow depends only the basic symmetry,but not Lagrangian

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Graduate Energy from schrödinger equation

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Graduate Dipole approximation in acceleration form

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Graduate Why can't single photon measurements reveal quantum interference in DCQE?

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Graduate WOW [Possible] Non-local neutrinos at CERN

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Graduate X-ray diffraction in the presence of electric potential

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Graduate Trying to understand Schrodinger's Equation

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Graduate Quantum explanations for adhesion, cohesion, strength and material properties

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Graduate Charged particle and virtual photons

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Graduate Could High Energy Virtual Particles Destroy a Starship?

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Graduate Can Bell inequality violations occur in local realistic systems?

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Graduate Outer product in Hilbert space

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High School Don't bite my head off here right away, I'm only a high school

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Graduate Exploring the Destructive Interference of Probability Waves in Quantum Mechanics

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High School Understand Atoms: Get Answers to Your Questions

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Graduate How to represent operator in matrix form

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Graduate What Are the Best Conceptual Resources for Understanding Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Why does a photon emit discrete frequencies of light?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment With Detectors

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Graduate Special conditions of a wavefunction?

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Graduate Ehrenfest theorem derivation in the Heisenberg picture

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Graduate How Does a Harmonic Oscillator Behave When Traveling at Constant Velocity?

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Graduate Is there a connection between a particle's momentum and kinetic energy?

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Graduate How can the uncertainty principle and relativity coexist?

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Graduate Can Gravitons Convey Information Faster Than Light?

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Graduate Equivalent Expressions: Solve Energy Spectrum Transcendental Equation

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Graduate Entanglement Between Different Types of Particles?

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Graduate Logic gates in excitonic single quantum dot qubits

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Graduate A particular representation of gamma matrices

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Graduate The Flash quantum tunneling vibration problem.

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Graduate Virtual Particles and Hawking radiation

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Graduate How Does the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Allow Specific State Transitions?

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Graduate Why are plane waves not possible representations of states in quantum theory?

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Graduate Infinite Well Problem - Time Independent Schrodinger's Equation

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Graduate Hi Folks,I am currently reading Brian Greene's 'The Fabric of the

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Graduate Why does the position expectation value vanish for odd wavefunctions?

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Graduate Schrödinger's cat, no superposition

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Graduate Path Integral in first and second quantization

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Graduate Lie Derivative and acceleration

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Graduate When does quantum mechanics turn into Newtonian mechanics?

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Graduate Is Entanglement related to Gravitational Fields?

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Graduate What is application of nonlinear sigma model?

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Graduate What is the Meaning of Hilbert Space?

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Graduate How do I move from QM to QFT and beyond?

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Graduate Orthogonal Eigenfunctions (Landau Lifshitz)

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Graduate How Does Quantum Indeterminacy Relate to the Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Is there such thing as an anti-photon?

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Graduate Quantum Mecanics unifing with General Relativity in 5D

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Graduate How Are Photonic Crystals Analogous to Matter Waves?

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Graduate How did Niels Bohr obtain ΔT •ΔE > h?

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Graduate What are eigenvalues and eigenstates in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Why/how does energy change when measuring position?

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Undergrad What is Planck's Quantization of Energy?

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Graduate New quantum energy storage proposed

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Graduate Relative intensities of Zeeman components

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Graduate Trace of higher powers of Density Matrix

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Graduate Quantum Teleportation of 3D objects

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Graduate Why is the adjoint of a bra-ket <φ|ψ>* = <ψ|φ>?

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Graduate Very Basic questions on bra-ket notation

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Graduate Why does ℏ appear in momentum space Fourier transforms?

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Graduate Is the unitary operator unique?

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Graduate Experimental Verifications of the UPs?

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Graduate Time-independent Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Why dimensionless coupling in nonlinear sigma model corresponding to temperature?

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Graduate Dirac Gamma matrices in the (-+++) metric

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Graduate Proca Lagrangian (Math troubles with four vectors)

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and the Big Bang

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Graduate Is the Hawking vs. Sussking debate still unresolved?

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Graduate Are particles fundamental or do they just have wave-like probability amplitudes?

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Graduate Quantum Transmission Coefficient

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Graduate How do you derive the Hilbert space and operator for a given observable?

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Graduate Continuous Absorption of Energy by Chlorophyl

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement - Equal Energy?

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Graduate What is a c-number and how is it used in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How to Distinguish Pure and Mixed States in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Does QM ever violate classical probability theory?

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Graduate Quantum Numbers for Electron Spin

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High School Why are some chemicals more reactive?

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Graduate Chain rule for commutator (Lie derivative)?

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Graduate Expansion of a wave fuction in energy eigenfunctions

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Graduate Particle in a box - why must wave function be continuous?

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Graduate Can the Casimir Effect prevent the formation of singularities in black holes?

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Graduate Diagonalizing Hamiltonian for Multi-Qubit Ising Model

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Graduate Is Planck Time Truly a Proven Concept or Still Theoretical?

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Graduate Does electromagnetic radiation occupy space ? How much?

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Graduate Critical Exponents for Quantum Phase Transitions

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Graduate Does Quantum Theory Offer a Physical Interpretation of Matter Waves?

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Graduate QM Text with many worked examples

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