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Undergrad Predicting a diffraction pattern without the limiting assumption

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Graduate Can PEAR results fit with the Everett interpretation of QM?

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Graduate Why can spherical-wave states be described by E, l and m quantum numbers?

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Graduate Length of a one-dimensional box with an electron inside

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Graduate Why does quantum entanglement work?

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Undergrad Can someone explain CP violation simply?

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Graduate I have a very limited knowledge of the quantum but I was wondering if

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Graduate Why does ψ̄ψ give a number while ψψ̄ gives a matrix for Dirac spinors?

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Graduate Why does the quantum eraser only erase information 50% of the time?

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Graduate IRC calculations in Quantum Chemistry

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High School Why do entangled particles show correlated changes when measured separately?

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Graduate What Are the Origins of Entangled Particles?

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Graduate Explanation of uncertainty principle

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Graduate Can Traditional Collision Problems Be Solved Using Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Infinite gravity and time on the uncertainty principle

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Graduate Can someone explain HUP with some mathematical rigor?

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Graduate Can someone explain to me Locality in field theory?

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Graduate Vile spinors in odd dimensions?

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Graduate How do they measure the mass of the electron in units of MeV/c*c ?

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Graduate Why are quantum fluctuations amplified when viewed on a smaller scale?

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Graduate Problems about uncertainty principle

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Graduate Relationship between Imaginary Time Green's function and Average Occupancy

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Undergrad Why is the cube of a unitary operator = identity matrix?

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Graduate Transition from bound states to continuous states

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Undergrad Double-Slit Experiment & Wave Interference

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Graduate Why do photons produce electromagnetic waves and other particles don't?

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Graduate Reversibility on Microscopic Level

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Graduate Do photons pass through polarizers without interaction?

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Graduate Difference between Hamiltonian operator and Total energy operator?

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Graduate Does quantum randomness reverse under time reversal?

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Graduate Quantizable nature of the physical world

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Graduate Hacking Quantum Unbreakable Randomness Scrambler

  • Varon
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Graduate Classical Bell test by Hans de Vries

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Graduate Are discrete and continuous phenomena two sides of the same coin?

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Graduate Relativistic E/p relations in the WKB Approximation

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Graduate Does spin change under Lorentz boosts?

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Graduate I don't get this Path Integral stuff

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Graduate The logic of a physical system

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Graduate Doubt regarding uncertainty principle

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Graduate Is the EPR Thought Experiment Misinterpreted in Contemporary Versions?

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Graduate Does measuring one electron's spin instantly determine the other's in helium?

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Graduate What parameters of SM can be changed gradually?

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Graduate Why does matrix mechanics work without the wave concept?

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Graduate Do bubble chamber tracks violate the uncertainty principle?

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High School What keeps the electron from falling into the nucleus?

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Graduate Can light be frozen and what does frozen light look like?

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Undergrad Does a Hidden Detector Affect the Double-Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Can Time Travel Really Avoid Violating Causality?

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Graduate Fermi's golden rule with discrete and continuous spectrum

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Graduate Electron-hole overlap integral for a quantum well

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Graduate Why some functional integral(in QTF theo)of a product equal product of two the integr

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Graduate Hermitian Operators: Finding Psi(p) from Psi(x)

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Graduate What really is a Wave Function?

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Graduate Time-Dependent Perturbations in Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Explanation of double slit experiment.

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Graduate How can a single photon exist as a wave of possibility before measurement?

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Graduate Why does |s=1,m=1> equal |++> ?

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Graduate Is a Reverse Quantum Computer Possible?

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Undergrad Finding Wavevector in 2D Domain

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Graduate Can macro quantum entanglement make teleportation possible? i had a

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Graduate What causes deviations between Sun and blackbody?

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Graduate Right handed or left handed,intrinsic?

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Undergrad Types of scattering techniques and their applications

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Graduate Wave functions and probability densities

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Graduate Polarizations of vector/tensor fields

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Graduate Experimental Test Limits Predictive Power Beyond Quantum Theory

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Graduate What is the meaning of classical and quantum equations?

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Graduate Position doesn't exist prior to measurement?

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Graduate Fine structure, exact formula. Dirac.

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Graduate Experiments on macroscopic quantum coherence and macrorealism

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Graduate Are More Complicated Lagrangians Wrong ?

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Undergrad Why don't quantum effects work at large scales?

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Graduate What is the secret behind the double slit experiment and how has it been solved?

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Graduate Oscillation time in wave function?

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Graduate Quantum Physics United with non quantum Physics

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Graduate Do we need a coincidence counter (for correlation) in delayed erasure?

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Graduate Covariant Uncertaintly Principle

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Graduate Ground state eigenvalue of x^4 potential lower than x^2

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Undergrad Is Superposition Similar to Tossing a Coin?

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Graduate What exists in quantum mechanics when we don’t observe?

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Graduate Laser light interference on liquid metal. why?

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Graduate Wave Length of Photon: How Many Wavelengths Does It Contain?

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Graduate Does quantum tunnelling allow faster-than-light propagation?

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Graduate Elementary particles,0-Dimensional?

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Graduate Can Bell inequalities be reconciled with local determinism?

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Graduate Understanding Interference in Quantum Ray States

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Graduate Dynamics in a Quantum Superposition

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Graduate When we want to show quantum behavior (like tunneling or double slit)

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Graduate Questions on a revised Afshar Experiment

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Graduate Newbie Q on quantum entanglement

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Undergrad What is a single particle state?

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Graduate Position expectation value in harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Sum over histories, including histories that violate conservation laws?

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Graduate QFT vs. Relativistic quantum mechanics

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Graduate Why does measuring A collapse into a simultaneous eigenstate of B?

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Graduate Why can't gravity be renormalized?

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Graduate Why don't electrons lose mass when radiating electromagnetic energy?

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Graduate Solving Indices Problem in QFT

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Graduate How Does the Hartree Model Account for the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

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