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

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Graduate Empty space can set objects in motion

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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?

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Graduate Some confusions about interaction picture, in peskin

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Graduate Relativistic quantum mechanics and causality

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Graduate Does destroying a detector before reading it affect wave-particle behavior?

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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?

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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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Graduate Electrons traversing a Potential well

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Graduate Should QM or QED be used?

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Graduate Understanding Convergence Factors in Physics Textbooks

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Graduate Understanding Cutkosky's Rules for Bhabha Scattering and the Optical Theorem

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Undergrad Does a photon cease to exist when absorbed by an electron?

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Undergrad What is the value, in joules, of one quantum of energy?

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Graduate Why is the behaviour at infinity important in classifying gauge theory states?

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Graduate Special Relativity and Entanglement

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Graduate Interpreting the Heisenberg operator sandwich in bra-ket notation

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Graduate How Do Canonical Transformations Translate from Classical to Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Quantum Field is Observable, Not State Property

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Quantum and Classical Path Integrals?

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Graduate Understanding the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model: Key Questions and Concepts?

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Graduate Is the Wave Packet a Valid Solution of the Schrödinger Equation?

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Undergrad Why Do Units on Plank's Constant Include Mass, Length, and Time?

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Graduate Searching Book about QED; compton scattering of polarized photons

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Graduate Correlations between QM operators

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Graduate Italian double slit electron experiment

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Graduate Can Entangled Photons Enable Communication?

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Graduate What does e^(iS(x)/ℏ) represent in the Feynman path integral?

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Graduate Quantum computingnecessary classical devices knowledge?

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Graduate Normalization and orthogonality of wavefunctions

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Graduate Gravitrons and General Relaivity

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Graduate Why must the energy interval exceed the Bohr frequency in Fermi's Golden Rule?

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Graduate Microcausality in field theory

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Graduate What IS happening with photon frequency?

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Graduate Decoherence does not collapse wavefunc.

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Graduate What's Really so Quantum About Heisenberg's Uncertainty?

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Graduate Imagine a proton in a certain place during an experiment

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Graduate Atomic electron wave frequencies

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Graduate Tensor products of representations

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Graduate Double slit experiment at event horizon of a BH

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Graduate Does the delayed choice experiment require backwards causality?

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Graduate How to calculate a Vibronic Coupling?

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Graduate Ask a few specific use of the word physical if it is correct

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Graduate How to fire one electron at a time

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Graduate Density matrix theorem when one ensemble is normalized but not independent

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Graduate Do electrons exchange photons with all other electrons in electromagnetic repulsion?

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Graduate Can S and K Integrate to the Same Result?

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Graduate Uncertainty in the presence of quantum memory

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Graduate Usefulness of the momentum wavefuction in solving Schrodinger's Equation

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Graduate Are there any regulating condition on the spin of particle?

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Graduate What are the possible dimensions of representation of SL(2,C)?

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Graduate What would happen if Planck constant decreased slightly?

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Graduate Can Quantum States be Transferred without Knowledge of Initial Orientation?

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Graduate Motion equation in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Finding probability density functions for hydrogen atom orbitals

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Graduate Grassmann Numbers & Commutation Relations

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Graduate Schrodinger Equation a constant?

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Graduate Derive RMS around average of a hermitian operator

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Graduate Can Fields Be Custom-Designed to Control Charge Interactions?

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Graduate Propagator at time-like separations

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Graduate Is there a guide to using the density matrix formalism in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate On the single/two-slit diffraction problem and superposition.

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Graduate Klein–Gordon equation with time dependent boundary conditions.

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Graduate In the second quantization spin operator, what are Pauli spin vector indices?

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Graduate Why does adding three spin-1/2 particles give only 6 eigenvectors?

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Graduate How do complex numbers manifest themselves in the subatomic world?

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Graduate Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment

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Graduate How to Calculate Uncertainty of an Operator with Known State

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Graduate Field theory in non-relativistic QM

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Graduate Entropy in quantum mechanics and second law of thermodynamics

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Graduate Entangled photon polarization thought experiment disproof request

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Graduate Properties quarks have that protons lack and vice-versa

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Graduate Why is unitarity important in relativistic scattering processes?

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Graduate How can sending a massive chunk of carbon through the double-slit prove

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Graduate Can Teleportation Become a Reality?

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Graduate Position operator in momentum space (and vice-versa)

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Undergrad Why can we write this? (maths)

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Graduate How is a single photon fired in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Why must Klein-Gordan equation describe spinless particles.

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Graduate How to show gamma matrices are unique?

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Graduate How Long Does a Photon Take to Pass Through a Thick Glass Block?

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Graduate Bell inequality and 1-1 pairs in polarizer experiments

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Graduate Commutators in second quantization

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Graduate Why is the Electron Self-Energy Important in QFT Theory?

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Graduate Deriving c†ᵢcⱼ = δᵢⱼcⱼc†ᵢ for fermionic operators

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Graduate Can an Electron Absorb a Photon Without Making a Complete Energy Level Jump?

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Graduate Coulomb's gap and Wave Equation

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Graduate Electron Spin: 360 Degrees or 720? Understand the Difference

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Undergrad Relationship between EMF and distance between the particles

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Graduate Why does the Hamiltonian generate time evolution?

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Graduate Why wave model fails for photoelectric and Compton effects

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Graduate Are electromagnetic forces observable between fractional charges?

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Undergrad How does light reflect off a material surface?

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Graduate About the Schrodinger equation, the Hamiltonian, time evolution?

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Graduate Trace of momentum-space propagator

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