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Graduate Representations of Symmetry Operators

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Graduate Can Cryonics and Bose-Einstein Condensates Work Together?

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Graduate Continuous EM fields vs. fixed freq photons

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Graduate Carl Jung’s synchronicity and ‘quantum entanglement’

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Graduate Ehrenfest theorem and the hydrogen atom

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Graduate Integrating infinitesimal conformal transformations

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Graduate Fermi Golden Rule: Conservation of Energy

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Graduate Equation problem. How to elimintate t?

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Graduate Confusion (2) from Weinberg's QFT.(Little group))

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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Number of different ways, particle with E and delta_E.

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Graduate Degeneracy in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Synchronized Bosons and Entropy.

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Graduate Has Hawking Radiation Been Detected in Black Holes?

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Graduate Uncertainty and The Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Space: Definition & Examples by de la Madrid (2005)

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Graduate Is Quantum Probability Calculation of |e-ix|^2 Correct?

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Graduate Is the Universe Really 3D or Are Forces and Waves 2D?

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Undergrad What's in the schrodinger wave equation?

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Graduate Schrodinger equation and atoms

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Graduate Deriving expressions for creation/annihilation operator

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Graduate Can Anti-Energy Exist and What Would It Mean for Our Understanding of Physics?

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Graduate Empty spaces and virtual particles in atom

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Graduate Level degeneracy of the transverse ising model

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Undergrad How do electrons behave in resistive circuits and semiconductors?

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Graduate Is the cosmological constant equivalent to vacuum energy?

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Graduate Logical inconsistency in standard model of entanglement

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Graduate Applicablilty of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation

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Graduate Questions on Chapter 67: Understanding the Limit and Contact Terms

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Graduate Qualifications of an Observer

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Graduate Virtual Particles: Creation & Destruction in 10-43 Seconds?

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Graduate Vacuum Energy Form (aside from gamma rays)

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Graduate Spooky Action at a Distance / Tachyons?

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Graduate Fundamental Forces and Lie Groups

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Graduate Can entangled photons transmit information faster than the speed of light?

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Graduate Does Bell's Theorem Rule Out Determinism?

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Graduate How does a gauge field lead to charge superselection?

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Graduate D-Wave - first commercial quantum computer

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Graduate Explanation of Multiverse Past in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate The virtue particle is mass on-shell or off-shell?

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Graduate Magnetic Precession and Photon Absorption

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Graduate Explain phase change of an EMW in terms of photons.

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Graduate Continuous dual space and conjugate space

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Graduate Paradox: The infinite square well vs. the Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Adiabatic approxmation, estimate of d\phi/dx

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Graduate Angular Mumentum: Question for my exam tomorrow

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Graduate Are there 'complex' numbers in classical mechanics?

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Graduate How Do Massless Photons Influence Atomic Repulsion in Quantum Electrodynamics?

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Graduate Paper presentation on Quantum Computers

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Graduate Pair production: Has it been observed experimentally?

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Graduate Does Quantum Entanglement Imply Faster-Than-Light Interaction?

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Graduate Heisenberg picture describes emission, Schroedinger picture does not

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Graduate Why does the l quantum number depend on n?

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Graduate Delay of virtual particle pair annihilation

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Graduate Callan-Symanzik equation in dimensionally regularized scheme

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Graduate Is the 'Bare Lagrangian' in Counterterms the Same as in Feynman's Method?

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Graduate Question on nuclear magnetic resonance and Larmor frequency

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Graduate Finding a Closed-Form Formula for the Commutator [J_-^n, J_+^k]

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Graduate Planck's quantum theory question

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Graduate What is generating functional and vacuum-to-vacuum boundary conditions in QFT?

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Graduate Weinberg quick question on chapter 2 zero mass

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Graduate Weinberg Chapter 2 Little Group Q

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Graduate Infinitely divisible vs finitely divisible time

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Graduate Carbon energy transition levels

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Graduate Photons from black body spectra

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Graduate Can Scalars Represent Quantum States Effectively?

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Graduate Using Quark-Gluon Plasma as an Energy source

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Undergrad What does it mean, Electron absorbs a photon ?

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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Wave Function Symmetry

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Graduate Do speeds of propagating of all interactions have the same value c?

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Graduate Accelerating electron emmits a photon?

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Graduate Low energy photon - electron collision

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Graduate I am new to this quantum world,just read about fields in this

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Graduate Where are Pilot Waves located?

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Graduate Is the Wave Function of a Super Cold Gas Different than at Higher Temperatures?

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Graduate Confusion (1) from Weinberg's QFT.(unitary representation)

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Undergrad Motivations for plum pudding model (advanced)

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Graduate Pair Production and Mass Energy Equivalence

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Graduate Are QM operators also tensors?

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Graduate QFT: Why Kronecker Symbol \delta_j^i is Basis Invariant?

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Graduate Could Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Apply Without Instruments?

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Graduate How does the electron's vanishing act work?

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Graduate Why Is Wave Function Collapse Unnecessary in Bohmian Interpretation?

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Graduate The Wave Equation: Schrodinger, Physical Interpretation, Scope & Limitations

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Graduate Is the Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Possible with a Person Instead of a Cat?

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Graduate Could observation determine the existence of mass in particles?

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Undergrad Behavior of Photons During Reflection.

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Graduate What is Configuration Space in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate How were electron density clouds established?

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Graduate In one dimension there are no degenerate bound states?

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Graduate Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Wavefunction collapse on degenerate states

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Graduate How do we know which is strong,weak force with considering Lagrangian?

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Graduate Maxwell's equations hidden in Dirac's equation?

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Graduate What is electron emission or absorption of a photon?

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Graduate Treating phi and phi-dagger as independent

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Undergrad What does it mean for an object to absorb or reflect light?

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Graduate What are the equations of motion for low energy quantum gravity?

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Graduate Hi I have a question about POVMsim confused as to how they

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Graduate Maxwell equations in quantum mechanics

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