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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 What Happens When Photon Strikes 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 Help with intuition concering braket sandwich

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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 Feynman Path Integral: Explaining e^{\frac{iS(x)}{\hbar}}

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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 Fermi's Golden Rule: Explained

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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

  • realamateur
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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 Is the Delayed Choice Experiment Justified?

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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 & Normality Conditions

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Graduate Electromagnetic interactions & photon transfer

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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 Looking for help on Lancsoz algorithm to solve schrodinger equ

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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 Adding 3 Spin 1/2s: Total Spin Quantum Number

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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 Difference between quarks & protons

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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 Examining the details of the Bell Inequality.

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Graduate Commutators in second quantization

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

  • ndung200790
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Graduate Second Quantization: Explaining c^\dagger_ic_j = \delta_{i,j}c_jc^\dagger_i

  • Niles
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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 Photoelectric and Compton effects

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Graduate EMF between quarks & electrons

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Undergrad The process involved in reflection?

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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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Graduate Quantum nature of the inertia and Mach principle

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Graduate Quantum Puzzle:Photoelectric effect

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Graduate How can I interpret the superpostion of Fourier analysis?

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Graduate Compton Scattering Concept Question

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Graduate Spin vector and operator transformations query

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Graduate Quantum random number generator with radioactive decay

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Undergrad Confused about quantum principles

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Graduate Question About Qubits and the Representation of the Bloch Sphere

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Graduate Probabilities in QM is like Diffusion in Thermodynamics

  • Alfrez
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Graduate Is It Possible to Reduce Mass to Zero?

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Graduate Normal order of operator product

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Graduate When can eigenvalue equations be used?

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Graduate DNA Waves and Water: Examining Nobel Prize Winner's Experiment

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