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Graduate Can’t specify the exact energy of system in a distinc timet

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Graduate Higher Point CFT Correlation Functions

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Graduate Probability amplitude in Heisenberg e Schrodinger pictures

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Graduate Hamiltonian Algebras: What Do We Mean By "Generated"?

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Graduate Basic QED Question: Are a & b Dirac Matrices?

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Graduate Particle Zoo: How Do Particles Sense Each Other?

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Graduate Particle-Wave Duality Contention

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Graduate Simultaneous diagonalisation of non-hermitian operator (Bloch theorem)

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Graduate How to detect nteraction between two massless particles?

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Graduate What are the minimal conditions for a non-relativistic quantum theory?

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Graduate Why Do Spin Flips at Fermi Level Occur?

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Graduate Understanding Wick Contractions for Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate How do photons interfere with each other/themselves?

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Graduate About measuring angular momentum

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Graduate Why is the singlet configuration anti-symmetric?

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Graduate How Does Observed Superposition Impact Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Texts on Quantum Fields without Maxwell's Equations

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Graduate Did Bell's Theory Contain a Mathematical Flaw?

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Graduate Is Gravity a Fictitious Force Only Valid in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate What are force-carrying particles and how do they work in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Energy loss in collision in oscillator

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Graduate Radiation pressure, momentum question.

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Graduate Understanding the Ultraviolet Catastrophe: The Role of Planck's Quanta

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Graduate Where Can I Find Feynman Rules for Chiral Perturbation Theory?

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Graduate Heisenberg vs Schrodinger Picture

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Graduate Solving Commuting Operator Equations: Understanding Lz and T in Atoms

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Graduate How does the Energy of a particle stay together?

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Graduate Thermal Field Theory Integration over the modes?

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Graduate Is this an accurate explainantion of QM?

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Graduate Relation between Lie Algebras and Gauge Groups

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Graduate Why do some papers use binomial expansion in dimensional regularization?

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Undergrad Particle-wave duality of sound waves

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Graduate Physical intrepretation of Sr.E.

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Graduate Dark Matter and the Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Problem with source term in qft

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Graduate Probability current and it's meaning

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Graduate 2 questions about the double slit experiments

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Graduate What is the meaning of the electron energy states in a hydrogen atom?

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Graduate About the significance of commutivity

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Graduate How to perceive probability value in QM?

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Graduate Proof that gamma matrices form a complete basis

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Graduate What causes the shape of the blackbody radiation graph?

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Graduate Finding H2 Given |\uparrow> and H1

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Undergrad Stadium Wave as Longitudinal Wave in Terms of Transmission

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Graduate Full implications of bell's inequality

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Graduate How are Magnetic Fields described in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate QFT Source Function: What is J Physically?

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Graduate Absorption (without energy level transition).

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Graduate Kronig-Penny model, how electrons get free of their atom?

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Graduate What is Velocity in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is the Trace of Density of States?

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Graduate Can the Orbital Spin be Described by a Probability Distribution?

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Graduate Is the Planck Wavelength the Smallest Possible Measurement in Physics?

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Graduate Do many photons interfere with them selves or each other?

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Graduate Charge Due to Spin - Proton, Neutron, Photon & More

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Graduate Electron remain as particle in atoms?

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Graduate (global) Gauge invariance and field theory

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Graduate Delta well + infinite barrier -> bound state

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Graduate Is Hamiltonian operator a Hermitian operator?

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Graduate The Complex Relationship Between Mass & Volume in a White Dwarf

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Graduate Is MO theory the most accurate model for atomic bonding?

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Graduate Entanglement and the Holographic principle

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Graduate How does a quantum harmonic oscillator oscillate?

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Graduate Measurement Problem: Wavefunction Interaction with Macroscopic Objects

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Undergrad How Does Light Regain Speed After Passing Through a Medium?

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Undergrad Whether light emits the same amount of energy when it is in waves

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Graduate What happens if we use two lasers for interference?

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Graduate QED Proton Size: 4% Smaller Than Thought?

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Graduate Implicate order and explicate order

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Graduate Associated Laguerre Polynomial

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Graduate Understanding the Interaction of Scalar Fields in Yukawa Theory

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Graduate Decoherence by macroscopic interaction

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Graduate Explaining the Vacuum Catastrophe: Is the Quantum Theory Correct?

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Graduate Collision of two small particles

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Undergrad Elementary Questions on Quantum Physics for 15-18 Year Olds

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Graduate Justification of a common calculation

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Graduate Bizarre results of 1-dimensional delta-function potential well

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Graduate Why so(3) is not isomorphic to su(2)?

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Graduate Breaking the speed of light - It's been done, twice

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Graduate Is the Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Flawed Due to the Cat Being an Observer?

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Graduate Do Photons Have Mass and How Does It Relate to Gravitational Lensing?

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle: Position & Momentum of Photon

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Graduate Diagonalizing Spin Hamiltonian

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Graduate Renormalization and divergences

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Graduate Can polar coordinates solve overlapping divergences in integrals?

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Graduate How Many Counterterms Are Needed for Logarithmic Divergences?

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Graduate DBB and radioactive decay times

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Graduate What are null oscillations in quantum systems?

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Graduate Bose-Einstein-Condensate ground state energy E_0 = 0

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Graduate Is the concept of electron spin a misinterpretation of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Energy in a Fundamental Standing Wave Vs. The Energy in its Harmonic Waves

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Undergrad No prediction ever been wrong ?

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Graduate What Happens to Quantum Interference When Detectors Are Used?

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Graduate Is it all TIME, and not amplitude?

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Graduate How does the renormalization factor affect the propagator?

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Undergrad Quantum Computing and Entanglement

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Graduate Are there any other quantum field theory videos available?

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Graduate How can I solve the Linear Harmonic Oscillator in polar coordinates?

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Graduate Concerning Planck's quantum theory

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Graduate Unveiling the Contextual Nature of Quantum Mechanics

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