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Undergrad Compton Scattering: What is the Difference from Electron-Photon Absorption?
- luxiaolei
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Graduate Recovering lagrangian from equations of motion
- tulip
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Graduate Understanding the speed of light
- jnorman
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Graduate Squaring the delta function in QFT(Srendicki ch11)
- LAHLH
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Graduate Why Does Weinberg Extend Energy Integration to Negative Infinity?
- Yat-lo Lay
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Graduate Can two photon emerage into one?
- luxiaolei
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Graduate Associativity problem with observables
- zetafunction
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Graduate Interaction in QED: Electron/Proton Attraction & Repulsion
- paweld
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Graduate Quantum optics, 2 qubit gates acting on 2 qubits - cannot be factorized?
- yaboidjaf
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Graduate Zee QFT In a Nutshell Propagator Question
- sheaf
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Graduate Understanding Spin & Angular Momentum
- luxiaolei
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Graduate Question about Pauli exclusion principle
- LostConjugate
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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- lennybogzy
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Graduate Planck black body formula question
- telegraphic
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Graduate Slit diffraction: time between emission and detection of photon
- m.e.t.a.
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Graduate What Causes 2n^2 Vacancies in Atomic Orbitals?
- motoroller
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Undergrad Do photons travel in straight lines?
- johne1618
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Graduate Calculating Effective Mass of InGaAs Alloy
- daffoddill
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Graduate Is There a Smallest Time Interval in the Quantum World?
- Mr Peanut
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Undergrad Atom & Universe: Similarities & Dissimilarities
- Ali Asadullah
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Graduate Von Neumann entropy in terms of the tangle
- barnflakes
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Graduate Interpreting the probability distribution of the potential step
- Identity
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Graduate Relativistic Uncertainty Principle
- LarryS
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Undergrad Is the Momentum of a Photon Conserved in Matter?
- tozhan
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Undergrad Spin Explained for the "Wikipedia Physicist" - No QM Needed!
- Char. Limit
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Graduate Why Do These Quantum Mechanical Selection Rules Result in Zero?
- sokrates
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Graduate PF is a resource for questions about Peskin & Schroeder
- Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate Visualizing Electrons as Probability Densities
- stevmg
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Graduate Quantum / gauge field -> Classical limit
- ansgar
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Graduate Relativistic Mechanics of Hydrogen Like S Orbials at high Z
- ChmDudeCB
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Graduate I'm just wondering, what causes the existence of quantum levels?
- d-wat
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Graduate Dirac equation & Dirac matrices
- eoghan
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Graduate Is Geometric Quantum Mechanics a Viable Alternative to Hilbert Space?
- Quadratrix
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Graduate Information erasure without an energy cost
- jimgraber
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Graduate Feynman Diagrams for Exam Prep: Position vs. Momentum Space
- madness
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Graduate How Does Photon Spin Relate to Frequency and Polarization?
- Prologue
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Graduate How does a photon carry force?
- FireBones
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation: Kinetic Energy Impact?
- HarryDaniels
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Graduate Calc Poisson Bracket: {π,∂φ} Calculation
- vertices
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Graduate Question about upper energy limits.
- flashprogram
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Graduate Fermions with no mass, and helicity coupling.
- IRobot
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Graduate Are quarks really in isocoles triangle positions?
- Puma
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Graduate Can Energy and Interactions Create Electrons?
- Moviemann345
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Graduate How Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Challenge Classical Physics?
- Rico L
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Graduate New look at Youngs experiment
- Iforgot
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Graduate Where Does Charge Originate in Antimatter and Elementary Particles?
- Leon_of_Vinci
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Graduate Is the Photon a Unique Entity or a Chain of Energy Interactions?
- madhatter106
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Graduate Uniqeness of elemental particles
- mark noble
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Graduate Concervation of Momentum and Non-Classical Paths
- JDługosz
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Graduate QFT - interaction between field
- paweld
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Graduate Why does this integral go to zero?
- vertices
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Graduate Plotting 6pz Orbitals with Python and Mayavi: Any Tips or Experience?
- fk08
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Undergrad About the excited state of an electron
- oguz
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Graduate Can someone explain this quantum physics concepts to me?
- matthayzon89
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Graduate How to Calculate Momentum using QM Completeness Relation?
- luisgml_2000
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Graduate Calculating weights of Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Angular Momentum & S_z
- LostConjugate
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Graduate Experimental test of the Uncertainty principle
- IRobot
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Graduate Peskin Schroeder which chapter
- Neitrino
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Graduate Seperation of variables, infinite cubic well
- student111
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Graduate Physicists capture first images of atomic spin
- Frzn
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Graduate Understanding the Paradox of Photon Momentum: Electromagnetic Force Revealed
- scilover89
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Graduate LS coupling for identical electrons
- mk_gm1
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Graduate Laplacian of 1/r in Darwin term
- NanakiXIII
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Graduate Time dependence of scalar product
- Shredface
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Undergrad Why Does Photomultiplier Tube Emit 2 Electrons?
- SciencePF
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Graduate Information and sphere’s interior versus surface… not.
- rrw4rusty
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Graduate Can a Computer Generate Precognition Through Positron Experimentation?
- rhenretta
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What makes quantum mechanics so interesting?
- Aki
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Undergrad Electron energy increases with N?
- diagopod
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Graduate Normalised wavefunction to calculate the expectation
- roshan2004
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Graduate The radius of an electron orbit in helium
- Kennalj
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Graduate Schrodinger Time Dependent equation
- HarryDaniels
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Graduate Time dependence of energy & probability
- Master J
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Graduate What does 'Nothing' mean to a quantum physicist?
- pctopgs
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Graduate Really basic quantum mechanics question
- barnflakes
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Graduate What is the physical reason for the speed of light paradox?
- Jean Paul
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High School Is 'The Secret Law of Attraction' considered quantum physics? Do you support it?
- matthayzon89
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Graduate Radial probability density / quantum numbers.
- adwodon
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Graduate Can someone please explain overlap integrals to me?
- randybryan
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Graduate Understanding the Levi-Civita Symbol and Commutators in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Quantum Suicide Theory = Everyone Dies Of Old Age?
- Marglar7
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Graduate How Can Degenerate Fermi Gases Illuminate Quantum Statistics?
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Graduate Allowed energies for electrons in hydrogenic atoms
- manenbu
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Graduate Is this an error in Srednicki?
- LAHLH
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Graduate Rigorous Quantum Field Theory.
- DarMM
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Undergrad Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues
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Graduate Why is the result not always 0 in the product rule for derivatives?
- rayman123
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Graduate QFT question - anti-commutator
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Graduate How Do Phase Velocities Relate to Photons in Classical and Quantum Optics?
- Xian
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Graduate How Does the Double Slit Experiment Demonstrate Particle-Wave Duality?
- Hoku
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Graduate What is the Dimensionality of Wavefunctions?
- shaiguy6
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Graduate How to reduce fermi-dirac to maxwell-boltzmann in a solid?
- kof9595995
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Graduate What is the function of a collapsed wave?
- khkwang
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Graduate Experiment re quantum randomness
- SW VandeCarr
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Graduate Antimatter is just matter that is traveling backwards in time
- {~}
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Graduate Bloch's theorem and diagonalization of translation operator
- jostpuur
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Graduate Classical limit of Quantum Optics
- Xian
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Graduate Gamma matrices and lorentz algebra
- RedX
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Graduate Understanding the Uncertainty Principle and Its Effects on Atomic Particles
- Deepak Kapur
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