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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 Role of entanglement in quantum computing

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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 Contextuality in quantum mechanics and quantum Darwinism

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Graduate Orthonormal Energy Eigenstates

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Undergrad Do higher-energy photons travel faster than light?

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Graduate There is no such thing as 'collapse of the wavefunction' - Feynman

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Undergrad Is absorbed light wavelength the same as emitted wavelength when electrons transition?

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Graduate Superconductivity and Pauli exclusion principle

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Graduate Why is position the preferred variable in de Broglie-Bohm theory?

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Graduate Norm Ordering for a many electron system

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Graduate Standard Model Completely Wrong

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Graduate Eigenstates in the field of a magnetic monopole

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Graduate Spin State Rotation: Understanding Negative Probability?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Why Isn't Wave Function Collapsed?

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Graduate Is the Total Momentum in QED Actually Total Angular Momentum?

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Graduate QFT Counter Terms example calculation?

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Graduate Why two s=1/2 states can be linked by a rotation, but not two s=1 states?

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Graduate Microcanonical ensemble, density operator

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Graduate QM vs. the second law of thermodynamics

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High School Max # of electrons in an orbit

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Graduate Distinguishing Two Experiments With Equal Density Matrices

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Graduate The old problem of the virtual particles

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Graduate The stability of the hydrogen atom

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Graduate When do light and electrons behave as waves vs particles?

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Undergrad Why particle in a box is considered as 1-dimensional ?

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Graduate Matter wave phase evolution on multiple geodesics

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Graduate Discrete vs continuous eigenvalues

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Graduate Harmonic oscillator phase space integral

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High School Meaning of frequency and wavelength of photon

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Graduate Trace of the fundamental commutation relation

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Graduate Why is the graviton non-renormalizable?

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Graduate How Does Time Ordering Work in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why is indeterminism assummed popular ?

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Graduate Is liquid helium composed of both ortho and para-helium?

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Graduate The Controversy Surrounding Bell's Theorems and Local Realism

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Graduate How Are Spin 1 Particles Represented in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Can Extra Dimensions in String Theory Be Smaller Than a Planck Length?

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Graduate Can photons have spin values of -1, 0, and 1?

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Graduate Extracting an answer from a quantum computer

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Graduate Quantum effects at the neurological level

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Graduate Do Fermionic Creation and Annihilation Operators Commute?

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Graduate Problem with anticommutation of spinors

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Graduate Is fractional orbital momentum theoretically possible?

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Graduate Understanding Momentum Eigenfunctions in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can Quaternions Revolutionize Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate QFT Basics: What Does "Ad" Mean in Zeidler's Proofs?

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Graduate Visualization of electron spin

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Graduate What is phase from a QM standpoint?

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Graduate Wave-partical duality and Huygens–Fresnel principle

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Graduate Can light be brought to a complete stop?

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Graduate Understanding LQG: Adding and Multiplying in Spin Networks

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Graduate The nature of the magnetic field.

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Graduate If virtual particles can appear, can real particles disappear?

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Graduate Wave function for negative particle oscillating through infinite charged sheet

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Graduate What is the Classical Connection to QM Spin?

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Graduate Quantum logic and hypercomplex numbers

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Graduate Variation of simple Lagrangian

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Graduate Stationary States and Spreading of Wave Function

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Graduate How do you define velocity of a particle in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate List of Electron Double Slit Experiments?

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Graduate How is Hamiltonian energy of orbital differ from orbital in certain

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Graduate What are the requirements for a local realist model of entanglement?

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Graduate Is the constant c (or it's measurement) subject to the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Is Quantum Teleportation possible without a classical channel?

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Graduate How much evidence supports Feynman's sum-over-histories?

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Graduate Can senses other than sight collapse the wave function?

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Graduate Superposition-airy disc-snell's law-qbits.

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Graduate Is rotational energy quantized for tiny molecules?

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Graduate Understanding Perturbation Theory and Spin in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Any good reference on quantum-classical correspondence?

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Graduate Calculating eigenvalues of J with Clebsch-Gordan coefficients

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Graduate Do entangled electrons still turn 720 degrees?

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Graduate QFT Video Lectures with David Tong

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Graduate Propagator and delta functions

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Graduate Are particles diffraction patterns?

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Graduate Converting hydrogen electron state to spinor wavefunction

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Graduate How Does Wave Function Collapse Relate to the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Re-evolution of wavefunction after collapse

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Graduate Invariant Lagrangian or action

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Graduate Boson coherence at high temperatures?

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Graduate Google's most relevant names in Quantum Theory

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Graduate How Can You Prove No Bound States Exist in a Finite Spherical Well?

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Graduate Physicists are enabling increasingly large quantum systems to go into

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Graduate Resolution in scattering experiments

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Graduate Photons interfering with themselves-double slit experiment

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Graduate Is matter just energy functions interacting rather than actual objects?

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Graduate Why does observation change electron behavior in the double slit experiment?

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