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Undergrad What is the source of light emitted from combustion reactions?

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Graduate Can light be considered as information only?

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Graduate Are probabilities for Eigen Vectors of Hamiltonians unaffected as time evolves?

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Graduate Antiparticles from the Klein-Gordon equation

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Graduate Is information ALWAYS conserved in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Definition of Lagrangian Density?

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Graduate Can recording the dual slit experiment affect future outcomes?

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Graduate Estimating Laser Force: The Relationship Between Photon Momentum and Light Power

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Graduate Why Does the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator's Equation Yield a Gaussian Curve?

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Graduate Significance of wave function and its sign

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Graduate Do time and space occur in quantum units?

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Graduate Quantum Randomness and Free Will

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling and Entanglement

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Graduate Why do the photons produced by a laser have the same phase?

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Graduate Helium Atom Ionization: Dual Electron Energy?

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Graduate Majorana Path Integral: Deriving VEVs of Barred/Unbarred Fields

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Graduate Quantum physics and relativity

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Graduate Confirming Uncertainty: Electromagnetic Fields in Hilbert Space

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Graduate What Happens to Matter Near Absolute Zero and the Role of Bosons?

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Graduate Canonical Variables: What Are They?

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Graduate When particles are not being observed do they still exist?

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Graduate The Klein-Gordon field as harmonic operators

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Graduate Prove that eigenstates of hermitian operator form a complete set

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Graduate Proof of Hellmann Feynman Theorem for TD wavefunctions

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Graduate Is superposition a valid assumption in classical systems?

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Graduate Non-differentiable path in path integral?

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Graduate The inconsistency of quantum nonlocality

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Graduate The solution to the Shordinger's eq.

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Entanglable particles?

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Graduate Bell Measurement on 3-qubit GHZ state?

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Graduate Correlation between electronic band structure of an atomic species

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Graduate What determines the number of electrons in an atom

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Graduate Any quantum analog for Betrand's theorem?

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Graduate Runaway Solution in QED: A Discussion with Lorenzo

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Graduate The electron as a wave: what is it that waves

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Graduate Normalizing the ground state wavefunction of hydrogen

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Graduate What happens when objects reach the event horizon?

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Graduate I dont understand why info cant be sent with entangled tripletes

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Graduate Proof of Momentum Operator as Hermitian: Step-by-Step Guide

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Graduate Hamiltonian-momentum commutator

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Really Dependent on Randomness and Probability?

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Graduate Errors in an article about electromagnetic fields and inductors

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Graduate How do linear operators act on bras vs kets?

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Graduate Does speed=frequency*wavelength for electrons?

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Graduate How Are Multiplets in Group Theory Related to Spin States in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Superluminal instantaneous influence

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Graduate When to use ℏ, h, h/2 or ℏ/2 in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Variable speed of light in QED

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Graduate What Are the Strange Results of Second Quantization?

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Graduate Why particle and antiparticle have the same mass?

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Graduate Explicit form of time evolution operator

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Graduate Does observation make particles and objects real in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How to derive the Breit equation (Pauli approximation) in position space?

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Graduate How to understand electrostatics field in quantum level?

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Graduate What Are the Matrix Forms of the Six Generators of Group SO(4)?

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Graduate Coulombic interaction between the proton and electron of a hydrogen atom

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Graduate Proving the general hermitian operator property from the basis definition

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle Hypothetical question

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Undergrad What is the largest size for identical particles?

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Graduate Temporaly uncertainty principle

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Graduate Can superposition be tested by gravity?

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Graduate Can a quantum formalism exist without a Hamiltonian Formalism

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Graduate Finding Spectrum of Hamiltonians

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Graduate Analog of Hawking Radiation Observed?

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Graduate Question on delta potential function

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Graduate Golden ratios in quantum mechanics?

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High School What is the purpose of studying the operator?

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Graduate Why they call them Lie groups.

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Graduate Schrodinger's equation and the Diffusion equation

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Graduate How do Pauli and Dirac Matrices Relate to Quaternions?

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Graduate How Are Commutation Relations Derived in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate QFT: Srednicki's Book: What Does a(x) Represent?

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Graduate Time independent Klein–Gordon equation with boundary conditions.

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Graduate Ladder operators for angular momentum

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Graduate Worked Out Example of Consecutive Observations in QM

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Graduate The cause of entanglement / coupling

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Graduate Dirac's explanation of negative energy states

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Graduate Two Bosons in a Box: Is it 2/3?

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Graduate Why is Schrodinger's Equation complex?

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Graduate What Happens to Rainbow Fringes with Monochromatic Red Light Diffraction?

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Graduate Bell's theorem proof. Does it really proofs anything?

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Undergrad Quantum Singularities - What Is It?

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Graduate Why energy level transitions only absorb or emit photons?

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Graduate Equation describing particle with spin higher than 1/2

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Graduate What is complex quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Simultaneous diagonalization of two hermitian operators

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Graduate Which wave function and operator is responsible for the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Intuitions on a Dual Vector Space

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Undergrad What is the electromagnetic field?

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Graduate Time independent operators and Heisenberg eq - paradox?

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Graduate Can you explain the phenomenon of stimulated emission in lasers?

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Graduate Is It Possible to Create a Perfect Square Using Planck Lengths?

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Graduate Does Quantum Physics Prove there is no such thing as Matter?

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Graduate Quantum immortality. Are we immortal?

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Graduate Trapped Ion Computing Question

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Graduate Effects of a 10^60 Decrease in Solar Photon Energy on Earth's Temperature

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Graduate HiLets say I have a Hamiltonian which is invariant in e.g. the

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Graduate Uncertain principle and Noether theorem?

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Graduate From Heisenberg to Superposition states

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Graduate Understanding Weinberg's QFT Proof of Annihilation/Creation Operator Sum

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