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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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