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Graduate Normal frequencies of vibration of a molecule

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Graduate Vacuum Energy: same inside a rock?

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Graduate Is the Speed of an Anti Photon Really -186,000 Miles/Second?

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Graduate Special cases of the Schroedinger Eq?

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Graduate Is Physical Contact Really Possible or Just an Illusion of Forces?

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Graduate Unit of plank constant in the calculation of tunneling probability

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Graduate Solving Scattering Problem: Get Help with Phase Shift Delta

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Graduate QED 1-Loop Renormalization Group Equation

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Graduate How does combining spin result in the total spin angular momentum number?

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High School How to observe interference patterns with a simple experiment?

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Graduate Transferring bits using the square well

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Graduate Interpreting operators in second quantization

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Graduate Wavelength Less Than Planck Length?

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Graduate Quantum Chemistry: Dickson Dip in Spectroscopy

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Graduate Anderson Localization: Decoherence Explanation?

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Graduate Why is the vacuum normalised to 1?

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Graduate Interesting equivalent to Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Feynman Path Integral's Meaning

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Graduate 2 electrons in box, hard walls, total energy E.

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Graduate The wavelength of the virtual photons of the Coulomb force

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Graduate When to use H when to use U(H)?

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Graduate Can Momentum and Spin Be Measured Simultaneously?

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Graduate Is there a universal equation for all spin-2 particles?

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Graduate How can spin-2 be represented as a tensor?

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Graduate Is Light a Wave or a Particle?

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Graduate Mixed State QM: Unpacking the Non-Diagonal Density Matrix

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Graduate Position & Momentum: Detectors, Measurements & Identifiers

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Graduate Zero-point energy, dark energy and space

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Graduate Exploring the Mystery of Blackbody Radiation: A Quantum Conundrum

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Graduate Probability Density or Expectation Value?

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Graduate Number of vibrations in a photon

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Graduate Programming Binary Addition with a Turing Machine

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Undergrad Does Hydrogen's one electron spin?

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Graduate Angular Momentum: Deriving S_z Expression

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Graduate Question on negative temperature

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Graduate Effect for time lag in quantum erasure?

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Graduate Question about the experimental behavior of entangled particles.

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Theory: A Beginner's Guide to Particle Physics

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Graduate Differentials, pseudo-differentials, and locality

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Graduate Electron two slit experiment with gradual collapse ?

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Graduate Electron Transitions: Superposition of States

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Graduate Particle in a box with one finite wall and one infinite wall

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Graduate Different representations of SU3 and resultant multiplets

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Graduate Questions about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle & Vacuum Energy

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Graduate When the electron prob wave spreads what happens to the electron?

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Graduate Time noninvariance in quantum physics

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Graduate What are the fundamental equations of Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate How Do Fermion and Scalar Fields Interact in Lorentz Invariant Terms?

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Graduate Free Field Vacuum: What Does It Correspond To?

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Graduate Theoretical Quantum Entanglement Question

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High School Electron Movement: Understand Orbit Around Nuclies

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Graduate London- vs Josephson penetration depth

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Graduate What potential can model interactions at boundary walls?

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Graduate Wavelength of Proton: Kinetic Energy = Internal Energy

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Graduate Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist

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Graduate Why is the formula for Compton scattering not affected by binding energy?

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Graduate Measuring momentum in a square well

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Graduate What prevents quantum fluctuations from resulting in new universes?

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Graduate Renormalization of Logarithmic divergences

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Undergrad Help Layman Understand EM Wave Propagation

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Graduate What good resources are there to learn about physics

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Graduate Proving Interaction picture field satisfies KG eqn

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Graduate Measuring Photon Force on a Sensitive Scale

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Graduate Relevance of supersymmetric quantum mechanics?

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Graduate The state of magnetism and its possible correlation to gravity

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Graduate What Makes Ferromagnetic Materials Unique in Quantum Magnetism?

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Graduate Electron Tunneling & Waveguides: A Formal Analogy

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Graduate Entanglement correlations, singlet spin state

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Graduate Article says slow light caused by absorption/re-emission?

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Graduate Explore the Concept of Density Matrix with Jensa: A Comprehensive Guide

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Graduate Trouble understanding matter as waves

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Graduate Identical Fermions in an infinite square well

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Graduate Global SU(N) Symmetry and Complex Scalar Invariance

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Graduate Spherically symmetric potential and spherical harmonics

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Graduate Observer types to make the wavefunction collapse.

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Graduate Understanding Operator Equation in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Unitary Operator on a Tensor Product

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Undergrad Alternative Explanation for Double Slit Interference

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Graduate Point-like particles, form factors

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Graduate Warping spacetime, parrallel universes

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Graduate Pauli Matrices in higher dimensions

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Graduate Background that particles sit in

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Undergrad What can you talk about quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Teleportation: Scientific research

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Graduate How would one collapse a molecular wavefunction?

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Graduate Schrodinger solution to hamilton-jacobi

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Graduate How does one type of detector determine path of photon?

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Graduate Problem with complex conjugates and the Time Independent Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Theoretically Destroying a Black Hole

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Graduate CP-volation -> violation of 2nd law of thermodynamics?

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Undergrad Why these four 2p orbital electrons have higher energy state configuration?

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Graduate Quantum effects Photosynthesis

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Graduate Calculating Phase Space Volume for Canonical Ensemble

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Graduate Why does decoherence not fully solve the measurement problem?

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Graduate What is the significance of the scalar output in Hamiltonian action?

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Graduate How to count on-shell DoF of a gauge theory?

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Graduate Statistical mechanics of antiparticles

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Graduate A quantity from schrodinger

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Graduate Enforced symmetry in multi-electron problems

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Undergrad Help with Electron-configuration

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