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Graduate Universal quantum physics
Graduate How to measure which slit a photon went through
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Graduate Why are there several gauge fixing choice for gauge symmetry fields?
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Graduate How Does Measurement Angle Affect Quantum Entanglement Probabilities?
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Graduate Square Brackets in Partial Derivatives: Meaning & Examples
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Graduate Regularization by differentiation respect to a parameter
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Graduate Photon Antibunching: Clarifying Inverse Not Necessarily True
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Graduate Interpreting Correlation Functions: (1) vs (2)
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Graduate How Do Neutral Atoms Emit Black-Body Radiation?
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Graduate Thought experiment: Observation via Recording
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Graduate Electron Self-Energy: QED Calculation & Verification
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Graduate Is Reality as We Know It Just an Illusion?
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Graduate Differential equations in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate The probability functional description of a wave
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Graduate Canonical transformation in Hamiltonian
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: The Observer's Eye Affecting Matter
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Graduate Are clicks proof of single photons?
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Graduate Thinking about the uncertainty principle.
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Graduate Why is plasma frequency in ev and not hz
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Graduate Can Particles Be Connected Across Vast Distances?
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Undergrad How Does the Star Trek Warp Core Utilize Matter-Antimatter Collisions?
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Graduate Using the drude equation to find the dielectric function
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Graduate Definition of indistinct in pauli exclusion principle
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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle, quantum states, and lasers?
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Graduate Symmetry, Lagrangian, Qm, and diff eqs.
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Graduate Do higher spin particles obey Klein-Gordon or Dirac equations?
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Graduate Solution to uncertainty principle
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Graduate Are All Two-Particle Wave Functions Products of One-Particle Wave Functions?
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Graduate Quantum/Computational Chemistry
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Undergrad Is the Conservation of Energy ever violated?
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Undergrad Where Do Photons Go After They Are Created?
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Graduate Newbie problem about <a|b> and |a> <b|
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Graduate Are Mixed States Classical? | Niles
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Graduate Can Blackbody Radiation Explain Heat Absorption in Hollow Cavities?
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Graduate Perception of Time & the Probability Wave: Is It Illusory?
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High School Smallest Distance: How We Feel Things Without Touching
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Graduate Real or Virtual Particles: Chicken or the Egg?
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Graduate Overlap integrals and eigenstates problem
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Undergrad Can a sinlge photon be polarised?
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Graduate Direct products in quantum mechanics
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Graduate G-factor Relation to Energy Perturbations
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Graduate Green's Functions & Density of States
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Graduate Why discontinue(quantum)characteristic ultimately relates with probability in QM?
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Graduate Is all electromagnetic radiation quantized?
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Graduate Positronium, Hydrogen, Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Is There an Alternative to Anti-Commutation for Quantizing Fermions?
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Graduate Linear Equations & Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What stage are we at in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How are entangled particles captured and contained?
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Graduate Exploring Hot Research in Theoretical Quantum Optics/Cavity QED
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Graduate Energy Transferred to Electrons: What Happens When It's Not Enough?
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Graduate Are there degrees of quantum entanglement?
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Graduate Boundedness of quantum observables?
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Graduate Stern Gerlach Experiment, bra(c)kets etc
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Graduate How is a quantum computer simulated?
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An awesome video on the double slit experiment
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Graduate How many periods of a photon are involved in proton energy level transistion?
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Graduate Validate Bohr Radius: Challenges Creating Metallic Hydrogen
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High School What is the Concept of a Potential Well?
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Graduate Why is subatomic behavior quantized instead of continuous?
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Graduate Who is Richard Borcherds and What is His Contribution to QFT?
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Graduate Density Functional Theory and the Local Density Approximation
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Graduate Investigating Two-Photon Decay in Hydrogen Atoms and Hydrogen-Like Ions
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Graduate I am working out of Sakurai and he says the integral with respect to
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Undergrad Heat of a solid under high pressure
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Graduate Grover's Algorithm: is it really a search algorithm
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Undergrad Orientation of Lowest Energy Photons from Hydrogen
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Undergrad Compton scattering: electron absorbs then emits a photon?
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Graduate Schrodinger's equation for H atom Some questions
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Graduate Problems understanding photons
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Graduate Can quantum field theory explain the g-factor in the Dirac equation?
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Graduate Virtual Particles and Radioactivity
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Graduate Entangled Lotto: Simulating Mermin's Bell Gedanken Experiment
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Graduate Are Stern-Gerlach Filters Modeled by Hermitian Operators in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Reflection and Transmission Matrix for a 2x2 Hamiltonian in a Conducting Channel
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Graduate What Are the Key Concepts and Equations in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Are Fourier Transforms Truly Unique in Non-Covariant Gauges?
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Graduate Quantum mechanical civilization
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Undergrad Why is a photon released when an electron moves to a more stable level
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Graduate LSZ reduction coeffs etc (Srednicki)
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Graduate Mathematical models, the 'real world' and quantum mechanics
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Graduate Generating Functional for Yukawa Interactions
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Graduate Genereral:Questions about Srednicki's QFT
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Graduate Node and Nodless wavefunction?
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Graduate Understanding Weyl Rule: A Comprehensive Guide with References and Equations
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Graduate How do i perform a measurement of a many body system?
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Graduate Is Planck's Original Deduction Correct by Today's Physics Standards?
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Graduate What happens to electron spin under Lorentz transformation?
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Graduate What is observable in a relativistic quantum field theory?
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Graduate Meaning of SO(4) - SU(2)xSU(2)
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Graduate The maximum size of an object which can be teleported
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Graduate Wavefunction squared is Prob. Density?
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Graduate Dot product within the commutator
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Graduate Need help with bra-ket algebra? Check out these resources!
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Graduate How Did Quantum Field Theory and Renormalization Address Infinities in Physics?
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Graduate What are the equations for angular momentum?
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Graduate Quantum entanglement vs relativity of time
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Graduate Covariant derivative in gauge theory
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Graduate Can we prove that there is a maximal complete set of commuting
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Graduate Why don't atoms self-destruct?
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Graduate What Are the States in Quantum Field Theory?
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