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Graduate Normalization factor in wave equation

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Graduate Understanding Red Shift: A Derivation from Classical and Relativistic Physics

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Graduate Backwards causation: Is there any proof really against it?

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Undergrad Can an electron collide with the nucleus of an atom?

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Graduate Understanding Stimulated Emission: Got the what, how about the why?

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Graduate Using Dirac Bracket: Books & References for Examples

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Graduate What causes Bragg planes in materials?

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Graduate What is the significance of light-shifted ground states in sub-doppler cooling?

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Graduate How is the fundamental group related to quantum statistics?

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Graduate Does Bell's theorem imply stronger or weaker correlation?

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Undergrad Determine frequency of emitted photon

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Graduate Virtual Particles and The Law of Conservation of Energy

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Graduate Maxwell's or Schrodinger's Light Wave

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Graduate One electron two slit exeriment when one eletron is emited after 1 hour

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Graduate Confusion (6) from Weinberg's QFT.(in and out state)

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Graduate Shooting an electron at an ion's nucleus

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Graduate How to quantize the ''mathematical'' fluctuation field in statistics?

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Graduate Solutions to the Harmonic Oscillator Equation and Hermite Polynomials

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Graduate Counting the states of a free particle (Periodic boundary conditions)

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Graduate How do I derive a wave function for an electron in a finite potential well?

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Graduate Non-diagonality of Dirac's Hamiltonian

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Graduate Probability of Wrong Guess on Photon Polarization: Peres P47

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Graduate Quantum mechanics and causality/determinism.

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Graduate Entanglement – the order of measurements can be important

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Graduate Quantum filed theory in 1+1 dimension

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High School Can photons provide information about color and distance?

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Graduate Simulation of Grover's Quantum Database Search Algorithm

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Graduate Can an antiproton(negatron) orbit around a regular nucleus?

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Graduate Interpetation of wavefunction - atom

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Graduate Active QM Topics: What's Hot Now?

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Graduate Questions about deBroglie (matter) waves

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Graduate Bell's Theorem: Proving Its Vitality in Local Realistic Models

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Graduate MacroEntanglement and Consciousness

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Graduate Nate's Question: Why Is Detection Equivalent to Annihilation?

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High School What is Lockheed Martin's goal for their quantum computing investment?

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Graduate Question about Lagrangian in electromagnetic interaction

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Graduate Virtual particle in path integral and perturbative approaches

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Graduate Confusion (3) from Weinberg's QFT.(photon's angular momentum or helicity)

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Graduate Why do electron-electron-interactions raise the energy level?

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Graduate Find the eigenvalues of Liouvillian

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Graduate Virtual particle and event horizon

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Graduate Possible States of n Qubits as opposed to classical bits

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Graduate Compton Scattering: Calculating Fractional Wavelength Shift

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Graduate Confusion (5) from Weinberg's QFT.(invariance of S-matrix)

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Graduate Conscious vs. Non-Conscious Observation

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Graduate Addition for generators of rotation

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Graduate How do you observe the position of an electron?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics without Hilbert Space

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Graduate Collapse and creation of wave function

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Graduate How Do Virtual Photons Create Attractive Forces Between Particles?

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Graduate Decomposition of vector potential

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Graduate Why correlation function decay as power law at critical temperature point?

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Graduate Curiosity about complete basis

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Graduate Expanding a ket in the basis of different Hamiltonians

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Graduate Hbar c=1 and EV: Understanding Inverse Energy Units

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Graduate Photon Exchange - Frequency? And uncharged antiparticles

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Undergrad Understanding Orbitals and Energy Levels in the Bohr Model

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Graduate Chaotic quantum billiards on a torus.

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Graduate Conservation of energy after measurement

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Graduate What does show solutions to the schroedinger eqn mean?

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Graduate Does the Uncertainty Principle Make Precise Momentum Measurement Impossible?

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Graduate Is the vectorial representation of the Lorentzian Group unitary?

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Graduate Why there is 2[itex]\pi[/itex] in every dirac delta function

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement - Two Places at Once

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Graduate Quantum Interference in tunneling electron transport?

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Graduate Question about electron diffraction

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Graduate Quantum mechanics and Minimal coupling of Dirac field

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Undergrad Can anyone explain energy levels of an Atom?

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Graduate How to model a classical bath?

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Graduate How Can You Determine the Wavefunction ψ(r) from Electron Density |\psi(r)|^2?

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Graduate Time-dependent perturbation theory

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Graduate Proof that micro black holes can't exist?

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Undergrad What determines if the photoelectric effect occurs?

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Graduate Photon Emission & Atom Entanglement: Spin & Beyond

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics book suggestions

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Graduate Is there a way to derive Planck's Law without using a cavity?

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Graduate Looking for the name of a process.

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Graduate Quantum mechanical coupling/excitation

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Graduate Why in two dimension space many QTFtheory become renormalizable?

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Graduate Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment

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Graduate Too few examples to explain The principles of quantum mechanics by dirac.

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Graduate Time development of a wavefunction

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Graduate Do entangled systems have parts?

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Undergrad Single-Particle Interference for BIG objects-what does it mean for a lay person?

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Graduate In Electron Spin Resonance, Does Spin Up Have More Energy Than Spin Down?

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Graduate How are atoms entangled and can it be done remotely?

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

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Graduate Squeezed coherent states- amplitude and phase

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Graduate Ground state oscillation freq. of H2?

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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator problem

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Graduate Range of validity of the Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Is Spacetime Truly Smooth or Discrete?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle discrete operators

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Graduate Confusion (4) from Weinberg's QFT.(Time reversal))

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Graduate An Experiment Showing Entanglement Communication into the Future

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Graduate Interference of Probability Waves: A Quantum Physics Intro

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Graduate A few questions on Entanglement.

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Graduate Is quantum field theory the return of the ether?

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Graduate A Little Trick for bra-ket notation over the Reals

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