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Graduate Stability of Electron/Nucleus; Heisenberg Unc.

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Graduate Einstein's formula for specific heat

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Graduate Prerequisites 4 Quantum Mechanics: Math Topics Needed

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Graduate Photon Creation and Light Generation

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Graduate Quantum Violation of Equivalency Principle

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Graduate Force or work for electronic transition?

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Graduate Relational reasoning (Rovelli's RQM, Smolin etc)

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Graduate Commutator Relations vs. Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Understanding Bell's mathematics

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Graduate Feynman Diagram of a Coulombic Attraction?

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Graduate Just another double slit question

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Graduate Do you think the uncertainty principal will ever be solved

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Graduate Bosons and the Pauli Exclusion Principle

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - Why Is It Real?

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Graduate Where does the classical limit begin?

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Graduate Can Information Really Travel Simultaneously in the Universe?

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Undergrad Details of the double-slit experiment?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics & Free Particles: An Analysis

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Graduate What is excursion of a potential well?

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Graduate What do the 4 spin states of two particles represent

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Graduate Gamma 5 Dirac Matrice: Understanding Pseudo-Scalar

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Graduate Can virtual particles break the law that energy cannot be created or destroyed?

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Graduate What would be the world be like if Plank's Constant is modified?

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Graduate Why does the quantum harmonic oscillator have discrete energy levels?

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Graduate Are conserved the spin and orbital parts of the angular momentum?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Particles, Interference & Measurement

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Graduate Real meaning of stationary states

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Graduate Field Lagrangians as systems with infinte degrees of freedom?

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Graduate Is it Reasonable to Measure Fluorescence with Single Molecule in 1 Second?

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Graduate Two Universities in China succeeded in quantum teleportation

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Graduate Photo-excitation and photo-ionization

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Graduate 3rd order derivatives in the lagrangian

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Graduate Canonical vs. path integral quantization

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Graduate Measuring Spin of a Particle Without an External Field

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Undergrad Can maxwell's EM theory explain the photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Why Does the Electron Jump Between Stationary States?

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Graduate Integrating by parts in path integral (Zee)

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Graduate Understanding Hydrogen 2p Doublet: Removing Orbital-Spin Degeneracy

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Graduate Coulomb Gauge, Lorentz Invariance & Photon Polarization in Field Theory

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Graduate Spin, let me make sure I have this straight

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Graduate Temporal Extension of Quantum Uncertainty (A Theoretical Quantum Fortune Teller)

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Graduate Sending information via quantum entanglement?

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Undergrad Question: eV level of orbiting electrons

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: What would happen if

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Graduate About uncertainty relationship

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Graduate Using wave\particle duality to predict future event?

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Graduate How Does the Feynman Propagator Change When Multiple Photons Are Involved?

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Undergrad Probability of photons reflecting or refracting

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Graduate Question of the behavior of particles in observation

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Graduate Quick question on Quantum Entanglement

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Graduate Path integrals and supposed sum over paths

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Undergrad Chirality & Helicity: Basics, Dirac Equation, Quantum Fields

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Graduate Advanced integration techniques

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Graduate Wilsonian effective field theory

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Graduate Total control of natural forces Quantum Mechanics new defined (?)

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Graduate Using the time evolution operator

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Graduate Nonconservation of axial charge

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Graduate InVisage: Quantum Film - real of fake?

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Graduate Appearance of new information: mirror of collapse?

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Graduate Why is Quantum thoery so confusing that no body actually understand it ?

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Graduate About Photon as an independent entity

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Graduate What is the significance of the Ramsauer-Townsend effect?

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Graduate What Is Probability Current Density in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Can a Hamiltonian be unbounded ?

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Graduate Solve Momentum Expectation Change w/ Ehrenfest's Thm

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Graduate Bra-Ket Operation: Multiplying Equation by |psi1>

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Graduate Is intregral particle number a theoretical assumption?

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Graduate What are the key differences between H1 and H2 Hilbert spaces?

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Graduate Fermion annihilation operators from position and momentum

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Graduate How does the uncertainty principle relate to Maxwell's equations?

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Graduate The Basic premises behind quantum mechanics

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Graduate L² Hilbert space, bound states, asymptotics of wave functions

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Graduate General method for solving SE

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Graduate Why does observing an electron prevent it from entering a superposition?

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Graduate Computation of the effective action (Peskin 11.4)

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Graduate Photon Divergence: Questions & Answers

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Graduate N-point Green's function in QFT

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Undergrad Hydrogen Spectral Series Question

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Graduate Questions about phase velocity, and group velocity

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Graduate Slit interference pattern depends or whether there is a clock in the room?

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Graduate Massive Particles and Standing Waves

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Graduate Hamiltonian of spin 1/2 in tangential magnetic field

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Graduate The 'i' in the momentum operator

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Undergrad What type of wave does the electron travel as?

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Graduate Formula for a spin S in a SGE

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Graduate Is a photon in the form of a wave or a beam?

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High School Introduction to Quantum Physics: Spin

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Graduate Quantum mechanics momentum operator

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Graduate Dimensional analysis of the london penetration depth

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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality (explained?)

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Graduate Clarifying the rules of Reflection

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Graduate Exploring Dirac Matrices in the Context of the Dirac Equation

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Undergrad What do Bosons travel through?

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Graduate Is the hamiltonian in the coordinate representation always diagonal?

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Graduate A wave that can only be detected in one location

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Graduate Prior interaction as an unwarranted assumption of EPR

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High School Name a bunch of famous physics paradoxes

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Graduate Could quantum teleportation be used to teleport humans?

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Graduate Hund's rule and angular momentum coupling

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Graduate Gravitationally amplified quantum fluctuations

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