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Graduate Gravitationally amplified quantum fluctuations

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Graduate Conjugate momentum in the hamiltonian

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Share Your Thoughts: An Idea to Consider

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Graduate Toy model, contextual particles/non-contextual ensemble

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Graduate Perturbation theory and total derivatives

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High School Need help with understanding an idea

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Undergrad Convert Mcd to MicroEinstein - Tips & Hints

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Graduate What is a wave function and its collapse?

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Graduate Measurement problem -basic definition.

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Graduate Does the graviton move at the speed of light in any reference frame?

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Graduate Can Quantum Physics be weaponized?

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Graduate Why is h-bar rather than h used in Planck units?

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Graduate Dan Sandberg - Quantum Computing & Phys. Chem. @ UConn USA

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Graduate Domains for relativity vs quantum mechanics

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Graduate Understanding Spin Wavefunctions and the Confusion Surrounding Spin 3/2 States

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle as impossibility of simultaneity

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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations and Curved Space

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Graduate Delayed Choice Experiment - A thought.

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Graduate Is Instant Data Travel Possible Through Quantum Teleportation?

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Graduate Could heat in motors be minimized when driven with quasiparticles?

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Graduate Wavelength limits of Planck's Law

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Graduate Quantum Immortality: Can Experiments Test Theory Without Risk?

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Graduate Hartree Ansatz Method: Fermion Antisymmetry & Product vs. Linear Combination

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Graduate Solving Projector Question on Mixed States

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Graduate Entanglement and communication speed

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Graduate Matrix or differential operator?

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Graduate Photon Interaction: Possible or Not?

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Allow for a Particle's Absolute Sharp Position?

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Graduate Evolving Causality: Heuristic Point of View of Quantum Physics

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Graduate The misterious 'inverted' harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Entanglement possible through a higher dimension.

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Graduate Wilsonian EFTs and regularization

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Graduate Quantum teleportation-is it real?

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Graduate Understanding Amplitudes for Photon Speed in Feynman's QED

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Magnetization and Ionization in Neutral Atoms?

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Graduate Understanding Specular Reflection: QED Explanation & Material Differences

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Graduate Definition of Thermal State of Scalar Field in QFT

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Undergrad Understanding Atom Orbits: Calculating Lost Energy

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Graduate Vibrational Vs dissociation energies for diatomic molecules

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Graduate What is the Repulsive Casimir Force?

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Graduate Unstoppable Force, Immovable Object

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Graduate Explanation of entropy only takes into account positions?

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High School What Causes Metals to Reflect Light?

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Graduate How Do Fermi and Bose Statistics Explain Particle Behavior in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Is the particle able to penetrate finite barrier?

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Graduate What is a probability amplitude?

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Graduate Can information be transfered via entaglement?

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Undergrad Do Atoms Literally Behave as Waves?

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Graduate What is residual Coulomb interaction and why does it exist?

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Graduate Can a computer be an observer?

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Graduate How do we measure particle momentum?

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Graduate In a quantum fluid, we know that it is difficult to add or destroy a

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Graduate Help with Understanding CH27 of Srednicki

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Graduate Dual Light Sources in Dual-Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Visualization of entanglement when relative speeds differ greatly

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Graduate Does Electric Charge Have a Definite Value or Does Uncertainty Apply?

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Undergrad Basic conceptual/intuitive question on molecular vibrations and rotations.

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Graduate What is the Scale Dependence of Coupling Constants in QFT?

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Graduate OMG another Virtual Particle question. Runnnn

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Undergrad How Much Radiation is Harmful?

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Graduate What is the origin of the strong red line in the sodium emission spectrum?

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Graduate Normalization of wave function .

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Graduate What would happen if the uncertainty principle was false?

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Graduate Photons from separated sources can be entangled - after they were detected

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Graduate Is the Wave Function Real? Evidence from the Frankenstein Photon Experiment

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Graduate Eigenvalue of momentum for particle in a box

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Graduate Two-slit experiment and The Truth

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Graduate Can Quantum Waves Really Have Mass?

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Graduate How is Compton scattering calculated without using quantum field theory?

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High School Photon Reflection & Randomness - Is it Correct?

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Undergrad Why does neutral fluorine so reactive?

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Graduate Photoelectric effect, discrete values of the tangent

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Graduate Srednicki CH26 Explained: Solving Eqn 26.7

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Graduate Understanding Degenerate States: Rules & Equations

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Graduate Momentum in an Infinite Square Well

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Graduate Do black holes agree with the pauli exclusion?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement (A source saying QE exceeds the Speed of Light)

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Graduate Particle Spin, Isospin, weak Isospin

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Graduate An Idea I've been Thinking of

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Graduate Consequences of Hardy's paradox and joint weak measurement

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Graduate Dirac equation in curvilinear coordinates

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Graduate The action principle in quantum theory

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Graduate Fermi's Golden Rule (Decay Amplitude)

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Graduate Young experiment in gravity field

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Graduate How Does Photon Entanglement Influence Light Reflection on Curved Surfaces?

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Graduate Measuring Spin of Qubit: Analyzing Algebraic States

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle in Wilson Cloud Chamber Measurements

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Graduate Is There a Classical Analogue of Spin Angular Momentum in Dirac Fields?

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Graduate References or aids in learning QM?

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Graduate About mixed state and pure state

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Graduate Wavefunction collapse and measurement

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Graduate Resources for information on Entropy

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Graduate What is the wavefunction of the localized particle?

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Undergrad Anti-Bonding/Bonding Molecular Orbitals

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Graduate Proof of trace of density matrix in pure/mixed states

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Graduate Eigenvalues of a reduced density matrix

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Graduate Interfering Photons: How Paul Dirac Explained the Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate Bell's Inequalities and Double Dependencies on Hidden Variables

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Graduate What Makes Quantum Entanglement So Intriguing?

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Graduate Radiation by accelerating charge

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