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Graduate Why are the transitions in a Caesium atom called D1 and D2?

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Graduate Methods of ionisation/excitation

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Graduate How to Calculate Second Order Correlation from Master Equation?

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Graduate Leó Szilárd invented a feedback protocol1

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Graduate Dirac Spinor Algebra: Simplifying Expressions

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Graduate Is there always a real solution for every real Hermitian eigevalue problem?

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Graduate Can Single Photon Beams Exhibit Coherence?

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Graduate Question about Dr. Chinese's example of Bell's Theorem

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Graduate Quantized Energy Levels: Understanding the Basis of Schrodinger's Equation

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Graduate Calculating <\chi_3|H|\chi_3> w/ Dirac Notation Algebra

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Graduate Does this expression has an exact solution?

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Graduate Exploring Quantum Theory: Schrödinger's Cat & the Many-Worlds Interpretation

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Graduate Quantizing the Klein-Gordon equation

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Graduate Is there some reverse of annihilation?

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Graduate Unraveling QM Postulate 3: From Origin to Implications

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Graduate How can I apply quantum mechanics to describe a photon gas in a box?

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Graduate Two-particle fermionic basis states

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Graduate Mixed State Eigenfuntion Equations

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Undergrad Double slit experiment with electrons and larger particles

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Graduate Why do we have to use operators in QM?

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Graduate Question on Stern Gerlach experiment

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Graduate Lacking information of the general quantum physics explanation

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Graduate Elementary QFT question, part 2

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Graduate Quantum immortality and engineering your universe?

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Graduate How many believes in Quantum Immortality ?

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Graduate QFT Commutator (momentum and Hamiltonian) Issue

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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty principle derivation and canonically conjugate vairables?

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Graduate Quantum Coaching on company website

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Graduate Is every Hamiltonian necessarily Hermitean?

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Graduate Self-learning QFT for mathematicians

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Graduate Non-separability and solipsism

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Graduate BRST Transformation: Notation & Nilpotency of s Operator

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Undergrad Light propagation through polarizers

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Graduate Explaining Continuous Time Random Walks: What Is It and How Is It Used?

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Undergrad Trouble understanding band theory

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Graduate Why vacuum has negative pressure?

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Graduate Trouble understanding spin-1 Pauli matrices

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Graduate Is There a Connection Between Quantum Physics and the Golden Ratio?

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Graduate Entanglement carrying data variant

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Graduate Is There an Alternative to Fermi's Golden Rule for E&M Wave Equations?

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Graduate Freewill = Macro Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What Are the Commutator Relations Between Hermitean Operators A and B?

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Graduate Spin Angular Momentum matrix of an antineutrino

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Graduate Adiabatic Curvature - Deduce the Local Adiabatic Curvature K

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Graduate Electromagnetic field in vacuum

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Graduate Delayed Quantum Erasure Double Slit with Observer Choice Available

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Undergrad Can Energy Be Converted to Mass?

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Graduate Wondering about QM whether things are actually all deterministic?

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Graduate Cause of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate A Few Clear Questions on the Nature of Quantum Theory

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Graduate How Do Photons Relate to Light's Wave-Particle Duality?

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Graduate DoF of a Gauge Boson - Why Only 1 for Virtual Photons?

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Graduate Transfer matrix, section in Jan Smit's book on Lattice Fields theory

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Graduate Simplified Hausdorf-Campbell formula

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Undergrad What Are the Dimensions of One-Dimensional Wave Functions?

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Graduate Is the Uncertainty Principle Statistical? And if so

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Graduate Find Matrix Representation of Green's Function | References

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Graduate The origin of the quantum vacuum?

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Applicable to Everyday Life in the Macrocosm?

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Graduate Solution to the Klein Gordon Equation

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Graduate Pervasiveness of linear operators

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Graduate Schroedinger's cat experiment, my question?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement : Spooky action at a distance

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Graduate Particle in a box: commuting energy and momentum operators

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Graduate Struggling to understand the concept of spin triplets

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Graduate Lagragians for spin 1/2 fields

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Graduate About the unit of Radial wave function R(r) of Hydrogen atom

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Graduate What is the relationship between Hilbert Space and space-time?

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Graduate Energy in Schrodinger’s Equation

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Graduate Wondering about entanglement at it's most basic level?

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Graduate Is space continuous or discrete?

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Graduate Second quantization particle current

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Graduate Can an Electron's Angular Momentum Change by Absorbing Virtual Photons?

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Graduate Why Does a Photon Not Have a Spin Component Sz=0?

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Graduate Generator of Rotations: J_x, J_y, J_z Relationship

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Graduate Momentum Operators and the Schwartz Integrability Condition

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Undergrad Is an Electron a Boson or a Fermion?

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Graduate Pauli matrices with two spacetime indices

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Graduate Quantum Weirdness: Vacuum Energy & Wave Functions

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Graduate Time derivative of a Schrodinger-picture operator?

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Graduate Understanding Spinors: Rank-1/2 Tensors & Square Roots of Vectors

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Graduate Expectation Value: My Understanding vs. Prof.

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Graduate State Vector Concepts in Quantum Mechanics: A Beginner's Guide

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Graduate Uncertainty Operators in Nouredine Zettili's Book

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Graduate When is the norm of a state equal to 1?

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Graduate Quantum Physics: Move of a Particle

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Graduate Why is the hidden variable theory wrong?

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Graduate Parity operator and change of variable question

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Graduate Does the Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Tester Reveal the Path of a Photon?

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Graduate Pan proto experientialism and the quantum exchange interaction

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Graduate Negative Probability: Is It Possible?

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Graduate Classical radius of nucleons and quarks

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Graduate Probability of Polarization Amplitudes - Frank's Question

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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement the Key to Understanding Particle Measurements?

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Graduate How to Experimentally Obtain Wavefunction Parameters?

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Graduate QFT around fixed classical backgrounds

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Graduate On the quantum physical theory of scattering

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Graduate Is the Product of Expectation Values Always True in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why Does the Domain Transform to Keep the Time Dependent Operator Self Adjoint?

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Graduate Ground State Parity in One-Dimensional Potentials

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