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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 Why does chromium have 3d54s1 instead of 3d6?
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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 Quantum correction term in Hamilton-Jacobi to Schrödinger correspondence
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Quantum tunneling probability for macroscopic objects
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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?
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Graduate Stern–Gerlach experiment with photons?
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Graduate Why do electrons have spin quantum numbers of +1/2 and -1/2?
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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?
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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?
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Undergrad Does light transfer momentum when it shines on a surface?
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Graduate Gravitation of heavy particles
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Graduate Do you know QM and SR?
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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Operator Commution
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Graduate Do gravitons cause inertia?
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Graduate Why does Fourier transformation of Doppler shift give thermal radiation?
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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 How do Fourier-conjugate variables relate in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields I, Eq. 2.5.14
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Graduate Schmidt decomposition vs singular value decomposition
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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 electron spin and why does it have a value of 1/2?
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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 Does entanglement violate locality or reveal incomplete information?
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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 Books for beginners learning quantum computation and 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 Why must the exchange operator P satisfy P² = I?
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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
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Graduate What does a gauge fixing term do physically?
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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 Sequential measurements with commuting and non-commuting observables
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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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