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Graduate Photon emission from simple harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Hawking radiation & quarks/gluons

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Graduate Dual-tensors not in Lagrangian

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Graduate Relative Time for Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Are mathematical manipulations admisible if integral are divergents ?

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Graduate How Uncertain Is the Energy of Virtual Photons in Scattering on Heavy Nuclei?

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Graduate What happens to the missing intensity in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer?

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Graduate In QFT how to take this derivative?

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Graduate Heisenberg principle, about time

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Graduate Can work function be changed by charge-bias?

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Graduate Calculating Reduced Mass for Schrodinger's Equation

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Graduate Virtual photons and electron orbitals

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Graduate Wave particle in the same place

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Graduate Hackers exploit quantom cryptography

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Graduate Triple-slit experiment tests the Born's rule

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Graduate Changes spotted in fundamental(α)constant

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Graduate Total energy levels of the electron and rest energy

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Graduate What is the hidden meaning behind this Quantum Mechanics Tattoo?

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Graduate Effing Virtual States - How do they work?

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Graduate Classical and quantum polarization

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Graduate Vanishing commutator for spacelike-separated operators?

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Graduate Quantum Refrigerator: Is it as Cool as it Sounds?

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Graduate Atoms tunnelling through a metal surface

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Graduate What about small momentum divergences?

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Graduate Observing the double slit experiment

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Graduate Capturing Photons in a Reflective Ball

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Graduate Is the Formula for Spin Also True for Angular Momentum?

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Undergrad Photon Momentum: Massless but Impactful

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Graduate Please can you explain some of the quantum maths and formulas?

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Graduate Heisenberg principle, little question

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Graduate Electron in constant magnetic field - classical vs quantum

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Graduate Can Randomness be Predictable in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Do Electrons gain mass in an electrostatic potential?

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Graduate Computing Scalar Product in Antisymmetric Fock Space w/ Creator Operators

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Graduate Acceleration Potential and momentum of photon.

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Graduate Understanding Symmetric/Antisymmetric Wave Functions in QM

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Graduate The heisenburg uncertainty principle

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: 1D Parabolic Potential Wave Function

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High School Is My Dad Right About Electrons Being Planets?

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Undergrad What Causes Octets: Examining the Physical Forces Behind Atoms

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Graduate Uncovering the Limitations of Feynman's Quantum Gravity Calculations

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Graduate Understanding a Complex Algorithm: Seeking Insight and Clarity

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Graduate Quantization = construction of quantum theories based on the classical limit?

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Graduate Very stupid question about Wigner's Theorem

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Graduate Is Time Truly the 4th Dimension?

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Graduate Someone said they solved Newtonian physics with string theory

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Graduate Could Time Dilation Occur in a Subatomic Explosion?

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Graduate Scalar field theory - Feynman diagrams and anti-particles

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Graduate Why is the relation 0 ≤ l < n-1 for quantum numbers important?

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Graduate Is this Dirac Ket Bra correct?

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Undergrad Basic question on photon interacting with electron

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Graduate What is the property of a particle known as spin?

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Graduate Interaction betwen position eigenstates of particle

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Graduate Which is the conjugate variable?

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Graduate Electron Density: Probability of Finding Electrons?

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High School Why Are S Orbitals Considered Non-Directional?

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Graduate How to Measure Berry Phase in a Magnetic Field?

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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Gain Energy as They Move Away from the Nucleus?

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Graduate Understanding the Principle of Covariance: A Comprehensive Guide

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Graduate What is the correct way to measure an electron's spin in a magnetic field?

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Graduate Scalar field energy for two delta function sources

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Graduate Connection, horizontal lift, and berry phase

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Graduate Electron motion in a p-orbital

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Graduate Autism thinking and quantum physics

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Graduate Understanding Central Charges in Weinberg's Book

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Undergrad Understanding Electron Shells: Defined by Principal Quantum Number

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Graduate Applying Heisenberg Picture Confusion

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Graduate Can someone help me understand this question please

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Graduate The Meaning of Z(J) and W(J) in QFT

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Graduate Double slit interference destroyed by observer or by photons

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Graduate Regularization of integral by substraction

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Graduate Validity of virial theorem in QM

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Graduate How Does the Strong Nuclear Force Communicate Through Particles?

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Graduate Questions About Interacting Particles A and B

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Graduate How *exactly* do you get the generators (1/2,1/2)

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Undergrad Welcome! Ask Away: How Electrons Orbit Without EM Waves

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Undergrad What evidence do we have for the existence of electron clouds?

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Graduate What is the role of the i in the propagator of Feynman rules?

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Graduate Understanding the uncertainty principle

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Graduate Why are virtual photons not observed in electromagnetic interactions?

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Graduate Time travel paradox only due to choice

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Computing: Unanswered Questions

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Undergrad Quantum Physics: Energy in Packets

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Graduate Classical limit from steepest descent

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Graduate What part of physics teleportation involves

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Graduate Limit to number of photons in a single point

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Undergrad Emission Spectrum - Does Energy Always Transfer in Photon Form?

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Graduate Can Time Loops Create Paradoxes?

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Undergrad Redshift is due to the expansion of the universe

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Graduate Where do I post this question? And, hi This is my first post

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Graduate Can a Simple Equation Unveil the Electron/Proton Mass Ratio?

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Graduate Scharnhorst, faster than light

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Graduate Experiment with single photons

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Graduate Is entanglement faster than light?

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Graduate Difference between wave and matrix QM

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Graduate Quick noob question: commutative of eigenstates

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Graduate Why sub-classical physics and quantum physics

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Graduate Virtual shell around a charged particle?

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Graduate Proof of Gelfand-Maurin Nuclear Spectral Theorem?

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Graduate What is the significance of tau and sigma matrices in quantum theory?

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