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Graduate Why do kinetic energy and position have an uncertainty relation?

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Graduate What happens if two entangled particles are observed simultaneously?

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High School What is an observation or measurement?

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Graduate Divergence of forward Coulomb scattering?

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Graduate The normal and anomalous Zeeman effect

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Superposition and Causality in Quantum Theory?

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Graduate Is the Hard Sphere Collision Cross Section for 3-Body Systems Always Zero?

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Graduate Independent solutions of scalar wave equations

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Undergrad Blog: The Fascinating Possibilities of 2D Objects in a 3D Universe

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Graduate Compton Effect vs. Photoelectric effect

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Graduate Is quantum field theory really lorentz invariant?

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Graduate Has anyone have seen this QFT book?

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Graduate Consciousness and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Why can't we use quantum bit entanglement for FTL information?

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Graduate Energy of individual particles

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Tale of a Quantum Physicist in the year 2092

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Graduate Why do electrons disappear and reappear?

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Graduate Can Atoms Be Moved and Imaged Despite Wave-Particle Duality?

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Graduate How Do Bell States Compare to Total Spin States in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is the geometric phase and how does it relate to parameter space?

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Graduate Quantum Teleportation: What Is It?

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Graduate Quantum physics concepts for fiction writing

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Graduate Shouldn't Lagrangians be real (hermitian)?

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Graduate Feynman integral over histories= over paths?

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Graduate Calculating Time of Excited Electron in Ground State

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Graduate Why is Psi^2 not square rooted in Schroedinger's Equation?

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Graduate In practice how do we prepare a desired quantum state?

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Graduate What are the properties and potential uses of Bose-Einstein Condensate?

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Graduate Quantum mechanics theory is the most fundamental theory of nature

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Undergrad Whether light has mass? if yes what is the reason behind it?

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Graduate Form Factors of Elementry Particles

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Graduate Is there a general prescription for commutators?

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Graduate Is A a Linear Operator and Hermitian in Quantum Mechanics Postulate 2?

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Graduate Diagonalize operator A by matrix S

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Graduate How to change unit of quantum to energy

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Graduate Relating the angular momentum with lapacian

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Graduate Why doesn't quantum tunneling allow particles to appear inside the barrier?

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Graduate Does a positron absorb a Photon?

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Graduate How Can B Hatfield's Book Clarify QFT Through Solved Examples?

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Graduate Books on quantum physics and string theory for non-specialists

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Understandable for a Ninth Grader?

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle: How Does Position Depend on Photon Wavelength?

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Graduate When does the wavefunction collapse?

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Graduate Can quantum physics measure thoughts and emotions?

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Graduate Is Heisenberg principle applicable to a photon?

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High School Light dying while traveling in space?

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Graduate The speed of light, gravity, strong force, weak force

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Graduate Notation question for density matrix

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Graduate How to measure particle momentum from deflection angle without knowing position

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Graduate Expectation value of momentum in discrete states

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Graduate Can Quantum Computers Become a Reality?

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Graduate Understanding Anti-Symmetric Tensor Expression

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Undergrad How Close Do Molecules Get When Two Objects Are Touching?

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Graduate Why isn't the Pauli equation equivalent to the Schrodinger equation?

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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Revolutionize Communication Technology?

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Graduate Can Non-Differentiable Space-Time Be Described Mathematically?

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Graduate Zernike Polynomials Applied to Schrondinger's Equation

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Graduate Calculating the Commutator of x and p - Problem Discussion

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Graduate Computing the commutator [X̂², P̂²] gives a non-Hermitian result

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Graduate Electron Orbital: Learn About Probability and Bounds

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Graduate Understanding Mixed States, Pure States

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Graduate Local Realistic in 4-Space Sliced to 3+1 Nonlocal

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Graduate How Does the Exclusion Principle Affect Energy Levels in Electron Spin States?

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Graduate What is a bilateral binary rotation?

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Graduate Phase space and the quantum Liouville theorem

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Graduate How do antiparticles behave in the presence of gravity?

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Graduate Contemplating an apparent paradox in the classic double slit experiment.

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Graduate QHO ladder operator coefficient from Griffiths

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Graduate Does black hole evaporation violate conservation of Baryon Number?

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Graduate Are Static EM Fields in QED Composed of Virtual Photons?

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Graduate Can Superposition Occur in Particles?

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Graduate Collapsing a wave function by measurement

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Graduate Double slit experiment / Quantum interferometer

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Graduate Quantum level working of IR sensor

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Graduate Continuous symmetries (Srednicki)

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Graduate Where can I find good resources about quantum computing?

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Graduate Can Electrons and Photons Move in Curved Paths in Space?

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Undergrad What is a joule second in physics?

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Graduate Sine waves and 4th derivative and 4 dimensional space-time relationship?

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Graduate Virtual Paricles and the Laws of Conservation

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Graduate Is Background Independence Disproved by Wave Function Collapses?

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Graduate How long does does it take for the probability cloud of an electron to jump?

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Graduate When does entangled collapse happen?

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Graduate Dirac equation in one dimension

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Graduate Does the New Quantization Method Redefine Time Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Proving Schwinger's Identity: A Challenge for Mathematicians

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Graduate Entanglement and identical particles

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Graduate Order of operations with bras and kets

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Graduate Classical Version of Vacuum Polarization

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Graduate Heat transfering from Cold to Hot?

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Graduate Do we know for sure if gravity exists in quantum states?

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Graduate Understanding Fields in Quantum Mechanics: Electrons, Waves, & Particles

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Graduate What is the meaning of a ket in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Why are S² and Sz constant in time if H is diagonal in their basis?

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Graduate Relation between Quantum Mechanics and Temperature

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Graduate Strong force strength, quark decays, virtual particles, and quantum entanglement

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Graduate Is the spin-statistics theorem proven or postulated?

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Photos of Matter Particles - Get Links Here

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Graduate de Broglie wavelength explanation for VLSI students

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Undergrad What does 'orthogonal' mean for vectors?

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