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The Well-Known Result: Rigorous or Not?

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Graduate Does Time-Energy Uncertainty Violate Energy Conservation?

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Graduate Understanding Gas Energy States: A Quantum Physics Analysis

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Graduate Consciousness and Quantum Tunneling

  • MattRob
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Graduate Conformal field theory: vertex operator

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Graduate QED: Electric Field - Can We Observe Photons?

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Graduate Quantum cloning and disentanglement

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Original Schrodinger Equation Article in English

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Graduate Can a passionate physics person explain quantum mechanics to me?

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Graduate Real Hydrogen Atom: Exploring Electron Energy Effects

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Graduate Pure state versus superposition

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Graduate Difference Between Weyl & Majorana Spinnors

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Graduate Why is free field called free ?

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Graduate Is Degeneracy Relevant in Classical Physics and Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is the Mistake in Deriving the EM Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Entangled Photon Repeater = FTL Communication?

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Graduate How many quantum numbers would the system have overall?

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Graduate Insight, spontaneous ordering?

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Graduate Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation

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Graduate Different masses of particles and anti-particles

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Graduate Hydrogen atom with discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Casimir effect: threshhold distance?

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Graduate About the n-point Green functions in position-space

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Graduate Wave-packets with opposite momenta.

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Graduate What Are the Assumptions Behind the Groenewold-van Hove Theorem?

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Graduate How do we know the value of spin?

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Graduate How to understand braket two state?

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Graduate Quantum Computing problem [Quantum Teleportation] (Nelson and Chuang)

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Graduate Differentiating the complex scalar field

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Graduate Nondegenerate Eignefunctions as Linear Combinations

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Graduate How Can You Calculate Landau Level Orbitals and Wavefunctions?

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Undergrad An Introduction to Hilbert Space: Physically Explained

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Undergrad How Are Slits Made for the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Why is there a time dilation in relativity and what are its implications?

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Graduate Full knowledge of polarisation angle.

  • yuiop
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Graduate Unable to decrypt emission/absorption matrix element

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Graduate Quantum entanglement between fermions

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Graduate QM: Is this a Spherical Harmonic Identity?

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Graduate Understanding the 5 DiVincenzo Criteria for a Scalable Quantum Computer

  • G01
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Graduate Feynman rules for Majorana fields (based on Srednicki)

  • LAHLH
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Undergrad Understanding Electron Orbitals: The Role of Photons in Orbital Changes

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Graduate Solving Schrodinger's Eqn for Quantum Ring: Boundary Conditions?

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Graduate Is There a Boson for Magnetic Force in Quantum Mechanics?

  • nhmllr
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Graduate Stern-Gerlach With 3 Magnets

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Interference of different lights

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Graduate Quantum Electrodynamics in Curved Spacetime

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Graduate Wick rotation and interference

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Graduate Single photon wave like propagation

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Graduate Some questions about perturbative expansion of S matrix

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Graduate Interactions between virtual and real particles

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Graduate Why Does Equivalence Principle Imply Non-Existence of Higher Spin Fields?

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics e-2, Bransden & Joachain

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Graduate How do the wave-functions of particles and anti-particles differ?

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Graduate What happens in this thought experiment?

  • yuiop
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Graduate Velocity of qm particle in a box

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Graduate Speed of photons through dual slit.

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High School The velocity of electrons (question)

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Graduate General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Motion and Virtual Particles Oh my

  • JDude13
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Graduate Unknown well-known equation in Sakurai

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Graduate Bra-ket Notation: Explained in Layman's Terms + How to Notate

  • JDude13
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Graduate Quantum Decoherence: Understanding Contradictions

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Graduate How Do Helium Lamps Produce Light?

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Graduate How can I deform electron orbitals?

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Undergrad What is the Doppler Shift of Matter?

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Graduate How Does the Schrödinger Equation Account for Rest Mass Energy?

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Graduate Entangled particles - Correlations

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Graduate Why Must Dirac Matrices in Minkowski Space Be at Least 4x4?

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Graduate Hamiltonian mechanics and the electric field

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Graduate Time travel and the double slit experiment?

  • Ulnarian
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High School Difference between coherent light and polarized light

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Graduate Casimir Effect? Seems there is a simpler solution than virtual-particles.

  • JDude13
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Graduate Where can I find Dirac's original papers?

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Graduate The Landau-Zener transition & spin-flipping in an external field

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Graduate How do I compute the 3D Fourier transform of a point charge potential?

  • Marthius
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Graduate A confusion from David tong's notes on QFT

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Undergrad Question about double slit experiment

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Graduate QED Renormalization: Feynman Diagrams with Counterterms on External Legs

  • paweld
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Graduate Neutron Dipole Moment: Parity, Time Reversal Symmetry

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle: My Solid State Physics Class

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Graduate What separates one particle from another?

  • JDude13
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Graduate Shankar's treatment of Dirac's delta-function

  • tymarats
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Graduate Bare Charges of Identical Particles: Is It Possible?

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Graduate QED:WeakForce:QCDU(1):SU(2):SU(3)T^1:T^2:T^3 ?

  • Spinnor
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Graduate What Wave Patterns Emerge from Randomized Buoy Generators on a Calm Lake?

  • HarryWertM
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Graduate Wave function (orbital) rotation matrix

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Graduate Quantum double slit experiment

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Graduate Which way detector (hardware) information

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Graduate Quantum vacuum, virtual particles and ''friction''

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Graduate Empty space can set objects in motion

  • Monique
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Graduate Rainbows and wave-particle duality

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Graduate Is the wave-function frequency of subatomic particles affected by gravity?

  • JDude13
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Graduate Some confusions about interaction picture, in peskin

  • kof9595995
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Graduate Relativistic quantum mechanics and causality

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Graduate Double slit experiment question

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Undergrad Photoelectric effect experiment

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Graduate The projetive Hilbert space of coherent state.

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Graduate How are free fields and static fields in QFT interconnected?

  • Lapidus
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Undergrad Schrodingers Cat is sbserved whilst in the box

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Graduate Consecutive Measurements on One of an Entangled Pair

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Graduate New Type of Entanglement - Time

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