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Graduate How Can Wick's Theorem Be Applied to Schwinger-Dyson Equations?

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Graduate Von Neumann and Wigner on the measurement problem

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Graduate Novice question on Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Does the wave–particle duality apply only to electrons and photons?

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Graduate Understanding Second Quantization and Its Application in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Spin Triplet of Ortho Helium - Why Total Spin is 1?

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Graduate Does photon spin imply its polarization

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Graduate Quantum Coherence - matter or energy?

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Graduate Is de Broglie-Bohm compatible with GHZ and generalized EPR?

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Undergrad Some very simple double slit experiment questions

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Undergrad First double-slit experiment with single electrons

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Graduate Are spin-up and spin-down electrons distinguishable or indistinguishable?

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Graduate Wave function evolution, stationary states and the Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Is retro-causality a science fact?

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Graduate Tight Binding Description of Graphene (Hamiltonian and Overlap Matrix)

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Graduate Q.M., Q.M.+Spin, Q.M.+Relativity; C^1, C^2, C^4, why ?

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Graduate Trouble understanding a Peskin-Schroeder text

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Graduate Does Feynman's QED only explain light as particles?

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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment - Clarification on 'Observation'

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Graduate Why is the product of Dirac spinors a 4x4 matrix?

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Graduate Exchange Interaction - Helium

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Graduate Can We Solve for the Wave Function of Water?

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Graduate Use of potentials in Quantum theory

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Graduate Uncertainty when multiplying measured and constant quantities

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Undergrad What Is Resonant Energy Transfer and How Does It Work?

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Graduate How to solve this photoelectric equation involving specific heat capacity

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Graduate Left and right-handed Weyl spinors

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Graduate Heisenberg's 1927 paper on uncertainty

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Graduate What does it mean by independent (in gauge fixing of EM field)

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Graduate Defining Hamiltonian density and deriving energy current

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Graduate Deriving the gradient form of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation

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Graduate Does Schrodinger's Cat Paradox Suck?

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Graduate In order for decoherence to work, does it require the second law of

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Graduate In stimulated emission how does the incident photon make release of

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Graduate Difference between 'Quantum theories'

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Graduate Simple harmonic oscillator - scaled variables

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Graduate Has a loophole free test of Bell's inequalties been preformed yet?

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Graduate When Did Einstein First Encounter Quantum Entanglement?

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Graduate Is there a 'decision time' for quantum states to become fixed?

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Graduate What is the functional iW[J] for a system with 2 sources or 3 sources?

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Graduate What causes quantum coherence in superconductivity and superfluidity?

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Graduate Deriving equations of motion from a custom Lagrangian with creation operators

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Graduate How Does Fock Space Relate to Particle Interactions and States?

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Graduate Time reversal symmetry breaking

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Graduate The effect of the magnet in a Stern-Gerlach experiment

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Graduate How Do You Determine Irreducible Representations for Group Transformations?

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Graduate Double slit experiment with detectors not recording

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High School I am studying orbitals at school. They are very interesting and

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Graduate Understanding Pressure in Quantum Mechanics: Energy, Momentum, and Flux

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Watch "The Quantum Tamers" - Find Links Here

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Graduate Entanglement experiments without a common source

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Graduate How many pure numbers relate to elementary particles?

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Graduate What do eigenvalues of the EM field operators represent?

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle Equations

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Graduate Time-reversal operator for fermions (Sakurai)

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Graduate BRS operator, ghost fields, Grassmann numbers

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Graduate Electrostatic energy in annihilation process

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Undergrad Does an excited electron cascade down or jump directly back?

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Graduate What is the concept of nonlocality in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What units are used after eV, MeV, GeV, etc, are divided by c^2?

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Graduate Atomic particle g-factor relationship?

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Graduate Can destroy a real photon(mass on-shell) to create a pair massive particles?

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Graduate Transfering Electricity w/o Medium? (Electron Beams?)

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Graduate Why does the uncertainty principle use equality when the inequality allows greater values?

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Graduate Are static E fields non existant?

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Graduate Are physics laws local or nonlocal?

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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement Evidence of Faster-Than-Light Information Transfer?

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Graduate How Does the Transformation in Sakurai's Quantum Mechanics Work?

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Graduate Quantum fluctuations = gravity?

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Graduate Cramer's time travel experiment

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Graduate Peskin Schroeder Enigmatic Equation

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Graduate Multiple wavelengths of light through much larger single slit

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Undergrad Does Light Have Infinite Mass When Traveling at the Speed of Light?

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High School Can Quantum Tunnelling Explain the Physicist's Ice Cream Parlor Strategy?

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Undergrad Orthogonality and orthonormality ?

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Graduate Deriving asymptotic expansions for difference equation coefficients

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Graduate Is the space of total angular momentum complete?

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Graduate Volume integral of current density

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Graduate Why doesn't the electron fall into the nucleus?

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Graduate Can I Create a Focussed Electron Beam at Home with Household Items?

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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle

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Graduate Rectangular Potential and Constraints

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Graduate IR divergences by analytic continuation of parameters

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Graduate Gauge fixing and Lorentz invariance in Yang-Mills theory

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Graduate How to describe the 'real world'

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Graduate How is the variation of the determinant of the metric computed?

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Graduate Historical qustion-models of atoms

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Youtube maglev toy train demonstration

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Graduate Dynamic relationship of the subatomic particles

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Graduate Why does dimensional regularization reduce photon divergence to logarithmic order?

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Graduate How does quantum physics explain oracles?

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Graduate Can Photons Pass Through Protons or Do They Always Collide?

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Graduate Shannon entropy of wave function

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Graduate Are Noether charges a rep of the generators on the Hilbert space

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Graduate Mark Srednicki's Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Transcendental Medition

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Graduate Quantum Field Theory Purly in Momentum Space?

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Graduate Representation of Angular Momentum Operator in the (j,j')

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Graduate Is Quantum Physics More Empirical or Theoretical?

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Graduate Integration in path integral formalism?

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