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Graduate Wave equations and Schrodinger's equation

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Graduate Stationary states for even parity potential

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Graduate Measurement problem in double slit experiment

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Graduate Semi-classical quantum/Poisson Brackets

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Graduate Schrödinger local and deterministic?

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Graduate Micron sized object observed in quantum state

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Graduate What does color represent in quantum chromodynamics?

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Graduate Gluons relating to quantum chromodynamics

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Graduate A plane wave vs the bound state of Hydrogen atom: orthogonal?

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High School Story of Operators Creation/Anihilation

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Graduate Quantum Field Theory - variational principle

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Graduate Expected value of the spin tensor operator

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Graduate Description of Wave Function Collapse

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Graduate Clarifying Boundary Conditions and Scalar Field Quantization in QFT

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Graduate Proof in heisenbergs uncertainty relation involving bra-ket

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Graduate Correspondence betw. Hamilton-Jacobi & Schrödinger eqns.

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Weird Probabilities: Is It Possible?

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Graduate Can Single Photons Create Dark Bands in Diffraction Patterns?

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Graduate Mass moving through Space/Time = Gravity?

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Undergrad Learned that light is electromagnetic waves

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Graduate Inspection of the Density Matrix

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Graduate Einstein podolsky rosen bridge

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Graduate Shankar CH1 Derivative of Dirac delta

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Graduate Could There Be Distances Beyond Planck Length in Discrete Space?

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Graduate Light wave/particle duality resolution

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Undergrad Why Do Protons Not Absorb Light Rays?

  • Stephen Raj
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Graduate Stern–Gerlach experiment with photons?

  • cragar
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Graduate Understanding the Spin of Electron and Its Quantum Numbers

  • Stephen Raj
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High School What is the nature of light and how does it affect our world?

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Graduate Why is Hawking Radiation Necessary for Black Hole Evaporation?

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Graduate How Many Physical Degrees of Freedom Exist in Gauge Theories?

  • JustinLevy
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Graduate What is the meaning of square root cut in Zee's Quantum field theory?

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High School Does the energy of a photon determine its size in relation to an electron?

  • Stephen Raj
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Undergrad Light Momentum & Photography: Facts & Effects

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Graduate Gravitation of heavy particles

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Graduate Quantum Field Theory: An Introduction to Physics Beyond the Standard Model

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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Operator Commution

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Graduate Gravitons & Inertia: Do They Cause Each Other?

  • Usaf Moji
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Graduate Exploring Fourier's Transformation & Thermical Radiation in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Seperation of variables in the Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Macroscopic Tunneling: Probability of Occurrence

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Graduate Beta functions and the energy-momentum tensor

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Graduate Calculating Energy Levels in a Finite Square-Well Potential

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics versus Determinism

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Graduate How Do You Calculate Energy Levels in a 3-D Infinite Potential Well?

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Graduate Could there be a way to more easily release energy from atoms?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment Questions: Detectors

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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillator 1d

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Graduate Is Probability Current Flow Visualizable?

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Graduate Why is there no time dependent a_1^{\dagger}(t) in the Srednicki equation 5.10?

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Graduate Solving Quantum Control Theory Problem with Toffoli Gate Evolution

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Graduate FUNDAMENTALLY RANDOM occurrences in physics.

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Graduate Understanding Decoherence and Pure to Mixed Transitions

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Graduate QM uncertainties / probabilities and light

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Graduate How is the Coulomb force transmitted?

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Graduate What Determines If One Variable Can Be Fourier-Transformed Into Another?

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Graduate Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields I, Eq. 2.5.14

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Graduate What Are the Key Differences Between Schmidt Decomposition and SVD?

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Graduate When is it appropriate to use a time dependent Schrodinger's wave equation?

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Graduate If Aop commutes with H, A is a constant of motion - prove

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Undergrad Can We Transform Radiowaves to Light?

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Graduate Can Constant Observable Expectations Be Accurately Measured in a Lab Setting?

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Graduate Why do we assume that zero point energy is infinite?

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Graduate What is Spin? Understanding Electron Spin & Its Importance

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Graduate Hypothesizing on photon mode of travel in double slit or similar experimental setups

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Graduate Does QM break down at large scales?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: EPR Paradox & Bell Violation

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Undergrad Number of protons and neutrons per shell?

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Graduate Change (control)the spin up or down of 1 entangled particle

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Graduate What is the current understanding of the photon and its interaction with matter?

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Graduate Quantum Computation & Quantum Information

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Undergrad Linear Algebra Reference for Quantum Mechanics Topics

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Graduate Evolution of uniformly accelerated system

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Graduate Exchange Operators & Spin Statistics - I don't the conclusions

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Graduate Is it possible to violate conservation of energy in quantum?

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Graduate Why S, T and U Must Be Positive in Mandelstam Variables

  • LAHLH
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Graduate Gauge Fixing Term: Physical Effects & Role in Spin Components

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Graduate Polarization of individual photons.

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Graduate Conservation of Energy and Mass in QM

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Graduate Confused about Shared Eigenstates

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Undergrad What would repel, hydrogen / a proton?

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Undergrad P orbitals and single electron atoms

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Graduate Double slit electron experiment inquiry

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Graduate Inner product of Hilbert space functions

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Graduate Is Plancks function a distribution one?

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Undergrad Name of Circular Standing Wave in Geometry

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Undergrad Most basic double slit experiment question

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Graduate Solve Bound State Problems in QFT | Identify Space of States

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Graduate Invariance of Pauli-matrices under rotation

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Graduate Coordinate transformation and conformal transformation?

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Graduate Expectation Values and Operators

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Graduate Significance of Commutation Relations

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Graduate Why doesn't Hydrogen have the same wave functions as Helium

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Graduate Quantum Mechanical Software & Force Constant for Polyatomic Molecules

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Graduate Uncertainity Principle , particles and antiparticles

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Graduate On-shell renormalization (Srednicki ch31)

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Graduate Analogy of casimir effect with moving boats

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Graduate Black Body Radiation: Derivation & Justification

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Graduate Is There a Calculation Error in Wikipedia's Helium Atom Energy Formula?

  • conway
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Graduate Understanding Ladder Operators

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