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Graduate Rigorous Quantum Field Theory.
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Undergrad What do eigenfunctions and eigenvalues represent physically?
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Graduate Why is the result not always 0 in the product rule for derivatives?
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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?
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Graduate How Does the Double Slit Experiment Demonstrate Particle-Wave Duality?
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Graduate What is the Dimensionality of Wavefunctions?
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Graduate How to reduce fermi-dirac to maxwell-boltzmann in a solid?
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Graduate What is the function of a collapsed wave?
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Graduate Experiment re quantum randomness
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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
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Graduate Classical limit of Quantum Optics
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Graduate Gamma matrices and lorentz algebra
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Graduate Does the uncertainty principle apply to a scaled-down observer?
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Graduate Normal frequencies of vibration of a molecule
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Graduate Is vacuum energy the same inside a rock as in empty space?
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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 Do atoms ever actually touch or only repel through forces?
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Graduate Unit of plank constant in the calculation of tunneling probability
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Graduate Phase shift delta not smooth in square well scattering
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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 Can an array of momentum detectors reveal position?
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Graduate Zero-point energy, dark energy and space
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Graduate Why do blackbodies emit continuous spectra if atomic energy levels are quantized?
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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 Measurement behavior of spin-anticorrelated Bell pairs
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Graduate Finding resources on Feynman's paradox about infinite particles in protons
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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 Does Heisenberg's uncertainty principle apply to natural electron motion?
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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 How do electromagnetic waves propagate if photons have no medium?
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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 Why can ferromagnetic atoms align their spin and become magnetized?
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Graduate Analogy between electron tunneling and evanescent EM modes
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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 What is a density matrix in quantum mechanics?
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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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