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Graduate Creating Models for Ed Witten's M-Theory

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Undergrad Do quantum fluctuations violate conservation of matter?

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Undergrad Light Transfer (Light Transmittance)

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Graduate Can I Walk Through a Wall with Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of spinor commutator with Lorentz generators in Srednicki

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Graduate Ionizing solutions to the hydrogen atom

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Graduate Dispersion relation and Photonic Energy and Momentum Equations in QM

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Graduate Attraction between two charges in QED

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Graduate Is there a quantum nuclear theory?

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Graduate If two operators commute (eigenvector question)

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Graduate Hawking radiation redshift (?)

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Graduate Spin-spin relaxation time in water

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Graduate Why need *complex* probability amplitude?

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Graduate Better than Bell: The GHZM Effect

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Graduate Peskin-Schroeder - Eqn 2.45 derivation

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Graduate Quantum mechanics and randomness

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Graduate Einstein against Quantum theory

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Graduate Propagator using cauchy integral

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Graduate Electromagnetic mass of the electron

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Graduate Diagonalize a non-hermitian matrix

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Graduate Dalembertian Operator: Symbolized by Empty Box?

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Graduate Probability laws of quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Quantum physics and technology

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Graduate Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester with human decision-making

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Graduate Delayed-choice double slit experiment

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Graduate Need some convincements on microcausality

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Graduate Is there an upper limit to e/m frequency?

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Graduate What is the Role of Wavefunction in DFT for Molecular Systems?

  • Karrar
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Graduate How big is a photon and what does it look and behave like?

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Graduate Does the Wave Function Predict the Most Likely Position of an Electron?

  • Billyneutron
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Graduate Electron/photon interference pattern questioned

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Graduate Reference suggestions for a struggling chemist.

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Graduate Relationship between mass and interactions

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Graduate Jordan wigner transform and periodic boundary condition

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Graduate What Precisely Does Preferred Foliation Mean?

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Graduate What does the Uncertainty Principle say about the location of photons?

  • JJRittenhouse
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Undergrad Velocity of light while coming out a denser medium

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Graduate How to show time ordering is frame independent

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High School Why do atoms arrange into different materials?

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Undergrad What Is the Difference Between Color Neutral and Colorless in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate What Is the Difference Between Hamiltonian and Hermitian Operators?

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Graduate Having trouble with time (in)dependant solutions

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Graduate Time derivative in the Heisenberg picture?

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Graduate Does a photon have a width and height ?

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Graduate How does one arrive at this equality?

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Graduate Spinors vs tensors in rotation spaces and quantum angular momentum

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Graduate What are the properties of Rigged Hilbert Space compared to Hilbert Space?

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High School Why does the EPR paradox fail to bypass the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate How do a and a^\dagger transform under time reversal transformation?

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Graduate Uncertainty about Uncertainty Redux

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Graduate A few more questions about quantum teleportation

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Graduate Is Quantum Suicide a Viable Concept in Real Science?

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Information Abou FTL Video Needed

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Graduate [tex]\Phi^3[/tex] Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Randomness being an intrinsic property? Quantum entanglement?

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Graduate Why do irrational numbers appear in quantum physics?

  • JJRittenhouse
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle - nature or human nature?

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Graduate Dirac delta integrated from 0 to infinity

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Graduate Why is the Green's function equal to the vacuum expectation of the field?

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Graduate Express arbitrary state in second quantization

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Undergrad Why don't home metals lose electrons in the photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Spin vs. Helicity: Transformation under Poincare Group

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Undergrad Does exciting an electron change the physical state of a molecule?

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Graduate The violation of energy conservation law?

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Graduate How quantum foam relates to vacuum energy and hyperspace

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Undergrad Does pauli exclusion principle

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Graduate Is the expectation value of this commutator zero?

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Graduate What is the rationale behind quantum theory and the afterlife?

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Graduate What would happen in this double slit experiment?

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Graduate Fermion creation and annihilation operators

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Graduate Can the wave function collapse before being measured?

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Graduate Is the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect a violation of the fair sampling assumption?

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Graduate Photon stream impinging on half-silvered mirror

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Graduate Does the uncertainty principle apply to all particles?

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Graduate Math of De-Broglie wavelength boggles me

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Relativity and Quantum Entanglement

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High School Light Grainy? Photons or Stream of Energy?

  • snackster17
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Graduate Detecting Electron Interactions at a Slit in Double Slit Exp.

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Graduate Why pesistent current in a normal metal ring is a surprise?

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Graduate Is the Uncertainty Principle a Limitation of Current Technology?

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Graduate What happens to a three-slit pattern if you detect only one slit?

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Graduate Understanding superposition and entanglement

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Graduate How is equation 4.61 derived from n dot s in the Arbitrary Spin Operator?

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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty derivation

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Graduate Can an observer be in a superposition?

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Undergrad Where's the Photon in Electromagnetism?

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Graduate What is the derivation for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Path integral in coherent states

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Graduate Rigorous mathematical treatment of continuous eigenvalues in QM

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Graduate Speed of light derived from Planck constant?

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Graduate Particles in a negative energy region?

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Graduate Why no Compton with Potoelectric effect?

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Graduate Significance of ((H,x),x) double commutator?

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Graduate Ionization Potential of molecules

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Graduate Energy shifts in time-independent perturbation theory

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Graduate Energy eigenfunctions in time-independent perturbation theory

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Graduate Is the Spin 1/2 XXZ Model Integrable?

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Graduate Can spintronics overcome miniaturization limits in digital logic?

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Graduate The Definition of Waves in Quantum Mechanics

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