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Graduate Uncertain Hamiltonian and Values Therein

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Graduate Average electronic momentum in bound state: please see this

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Graduate Understanding Exchange of Particles as a Force

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Graduate Propagator D for a particle is basically the Green's function

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Graduate Virtual particules and causation principle

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Graduate What Theories Explain the Uncertainty of Radioactive Decay?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Einstein's "Spooky Action" Explained

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Graduate Do electrons lose mass due to revolving around nucleon?

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling for particles of equal energies but different masses

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Graduate Can Matter Exist in the Same Spacetime Position?

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Graduate What is the origin of the 1/2 symmetry factor in Feynman diagrams?

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Graduate Hamiltonians, do they need to be positive definite?

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Graduate How come you can express the up and down spins

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Graduate Understanding Expectation Values in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate What is the solution to the self-reference problem in fields?

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Graduate Dimension of the gamma matrices in general dimension

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Graduate How Do Bose-Einstein Condensates Relate to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Quantum SHO Wave Functions not Complex?

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Graduate Do Quantum Mechanics PDFs Converge?

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Graduate Spin and Direction: A Complex Relationship in Particle Physics

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Graduate The Double-Slit Misconception?

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Undergrad Relation between mass and wavelength

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Graduate Shroedinger Variation- What do you think?

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Graduate Fine structure constant increase with energy?

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Graduate Commutation relations of P and H

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Graduate Particle in 1D Box: What Happens When Wall Removed?

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Graduate More correlation functions (Chapter 4, Peskin and Schroeder)

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Graduate Location and speed of the electron

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Graduate Can anyone explain this term is antisymmetric in SU(3)

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Graduate Do wave probabilities violate the speed of light?

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Graduate Quantum suicide and immortality

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Graduate Are There Distributions Different from Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein?

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Graduate Does the Parity Operator Commute with All Hermitian Operators?

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Graduate Double slit measurement problem

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Graduate What's the causal model for direction of curl of magnetic field lines?

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Graduate Klein-Gordon propagator ill-defined?

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Graduate Quantum Wormhole Mechanics and Microtubes

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Graduate W. Pauli: The connection between spin and statistics

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Graduate Foundations of Relativistic QM

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Graduate Monochromatic Light & Information: Can It Convey?

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Graduate Why is it difficult to accept the idea of nonlocality in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Understanding Angular Momentum: Commutativity and Common Eigenstates

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Graduate Constructing Matrix Representations for N-Fermion Spaces

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Graduate Proving that a propagator decays exponentially for spacelike separations

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Graduate Question about time limits of time-dependent perturbation theory

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Graduate How to prove that for any bound electronic state, < p > = 0

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Graduate Prove that 0=1 in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Power Production: Solar Generator Idea - What Am I Missing?

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Graduate Last step of a Schrodinger derivation

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Graduate Is position not an observable of a photon?

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Graduate Why Is There an Upper Limit to Photon Energy in Hydrogen's Emission Spectrum?

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Graduate Proving Ehrenfest's Theorem: Diff. vs. Partial Diff.

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Graduate What is the average force for this process

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Graduate Decoherence of the Universe as a whole

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Graduate Do infinite probabilities hurt multiverse theories?

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Graduate Angular Momentum eigenstates, and tensor products

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Graduate Can two bodies exist in the same space-time position?

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Graduate What exaclty is energy on a quantum level?

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Graduate Understanding Entanglement: How Observer Affects Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Questions on Raman Effect and its Clarifications

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Graduate Are Feynman diagrams evaluated using the residue theorem or Wick rotation?

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Graduate Do particles possess properties before we observe them?

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Graduate Understanding the Differences: Virtual vs Real Photons in Electromagnetic Forces

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Graduate Quantum physics, randomness and its influence on the arrow of time

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Graduate Integral for the free propagator

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Graduate Help with Equation 9.25 in Srednicki's QFT Book?

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Undergrad Behaviour of materials for computer graphics applications

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Graduate What particle/wave carries electric/magnetic fields?

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Graduate Is Bell's Logic Aimed at Decoupling Correlated Outcomes in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Can energy be created/destroyed in quantum physics(I need experts)?

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Graduate Is Consciousness actually Information

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Graduate Red shift of light and expanding universe - Your help needed.

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Graduate What is Mass? Electrons vs Photons

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Graduate Commutation relation of operators

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Graduate How is quantum entanglement observed?

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Graduate Chern Simons form: calculation

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Graduate Gluon Contribution to Baryon Mass

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Graduate What kind of wave is associated with particles , in wave particle duality?

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Graduate Position,velocity cannot be found simultaneously with appreciable

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Graduate Revisiting the Completeness of Quantum Theory: A Scientist's Perspective

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Graduate What Determines the Observer Effect in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Can Spooky Entanglement Enable Faster Than Light Communication?

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Graduate Canonical Quantization of KG field

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Graduate QM vs SR: The Paradox of Simultaneity in Particle States

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Graduate Why Are Conductors Essential for Observing the Casimir Effect?

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Graduate A Simple Proof Of Bell's Theorem

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Graduate What is exactly meant by wave nature,does the particle move like a

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Graduate Understanding Discrete Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Quantum entanglement in communications possible?

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Graduate Identical particles, eigenstates, empirical or theoretical

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Graduate De Broglie wavelength and it's dependence of the frame of reference

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Graduate What proof is there that light has zero mass?

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Examining the Accuracy of a Movie Scene

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Graduate Exploring the Wave-Particle Duality: A Layman's Perspective on Slit Questions

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Graduate What Does Quantum Free Fall Experiment with Cold Neutrons Imply?

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Graduate Quantum accelerometer using Unruh effect (Jorma Louko)

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Graduate Solving SO(3) Irreps: Find Eigenvectors & Eigenvalues of X_3

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Graduate Commutativity of frequency measurement

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Graduate Representation of angular momentum matrix in Cartesian and spherical basis

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Graduate Observational data and wavefunction collapse

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