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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Why do particles travel along smooth paths in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How is superfluidity in liquid helium explained by quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and Fourier Transform
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Graduate Average energy of atoms in the Stern–Gerlach experiment
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Graduate Quantum information/symmetry/group theory.
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Graduate Why is superposition prinple a first principle in QM
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Graduate What does not normalizable ential
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Graduate Why is Orbital Angular Momentum Quantized in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Electrons Settling to Lower Energy State: How Long Does Light Last?
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Graduate Central charge and Lorentz Algebra
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Graduate Can BEC experiments shed light on the mysteries of quantum gravity?
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Graduate Information travel faster than c ?
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Graduate Can we do double slit experiment using quasiparticles?
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Graduate Energy of Measurement - Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Srednicki Equation 7.7: Explained
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Graduate SU(2) symmetric/antisymmetric combination using young tableaux
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Graduate Can We Model Chess Pieces as Quantum Particles?
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Graduate Double slit experiment, observer effect
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Graduate Is the Scattering Matrix in Quantum Field Theory Inherently Unitary?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Does Normalisation Matter?
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Graduate Causality in quantum mechanics and relativity
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Graduate Is Every Hermitian Operator Observable?
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Graduate Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle make human teleportation impossible?
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Graduate Dimensionless equation schrodinger with field magnetic
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Graduate Photon propagator in an arbitrary gauge
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Undergrad Can Two Protons Exist in an Atom's Nucleus Without Neutrons?
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Graduate BRS: The Weyl Vacuums. I. Definition, Geometrical Properties, Symmetries
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Graduate Srednicki 2.17. How does metric act on Levi Cevita symbol?
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Graduate Radiation from free electron with small acceleration
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Graduate Instantanious Communication possible?
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Graduate Waveform produced by an atomic transition
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Graduate Quantum Immortality: Implications of MWI on Death?
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Graduate Symmetry factors in Feyman Diagrams
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Graduate Local density of number of photons
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Graduate Sommerfeld quantisation:relation between energy and potential
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Graduate S-orbitals, angular momentum and Heisenberg uncertainty
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Graduate How can I solve for Equation 2.16 in Srednicki?
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Graduate Simplifying Feynman Diagram for Nasty 10 Point Green's Function?
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Graduate The expectation of an expection (relating to Wick's Theorem)
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Graduate Understanding Normalization in Spin Sum: Peskin vs. Kaku and Zee's Approach"
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Graduate Photon absorption via changing EM field
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Graduate Thought Experiment: Weight of Electrons & Positrons in a Container
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Graduate S-Matrix in non-relativistic limit
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Graduate How Do We Calculate the Composite Spin of a System with Three or More Particles?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Explained with an Example
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Graduate Is there an equivalent of the HUP for spins?
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Graduate Electrodynamics question and maybe quantum/classical misunderstanding
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Undergrad Does a laser experience recoil due to photon momentum?
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Undergrad How is it then when you colide 2 protons
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Graduate Integral involving exponentials and the Time ordering operator
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Undergrad Quantization of Length: Can You Achieve Every Length Between 1" and 2"?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanical Acceleration Operator: Help Needed
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Graduate Understanding Spin: Share Your Ideas!
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Graduate Perturbation Theory: Deciphering Missing Lines of Explanation
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Graduate Solving radial wavefunction in odd central potential
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Graduate Understanding S-Wave and P-Wave Annihilation
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Graduate Bound states of Yukawa potential
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Graduate Energy Uncertainty Less For High-Energy Particles?
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Graduate Does instantaneous communication implies a preferrred Lorentz frame?
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Graduate What is semi-classical level counting?
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Srednicki's \langle 0 \mid \phi(x) \mid 0 \rangle?
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Graduate Sol'n of Schrodinger's Eq: A e^{kx-wt} & A Sin(kx-wt)
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Undergrad Laymans question about observational effect
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Graduate Representations and change of basis
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Graduate Behaviour of electron as wave and Particle
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Graduate BRS: Cellular homology with Macaulay2
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Graduate Disproving Shankar's PQM Equations: Example 1.8.6 | Farside Physics
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Graduate Oscillation frequency of probability density P(x,t)
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Graduate Hydrogen spin-orbit interaction
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Undergrad How gravity can be bent if its just a messender particle.
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Graduate Lorentz Invariant Majorana Neutrinos
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Graduate Writing a matrix as an outer product expansion.
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Graduate Solution for Dirac equation with zero mass.
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Graduate Orthochronous Lorentz Transformations
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Graduate Showing that commutator is invariant under orthchronous LTs
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Graduate Entanglement and Concurrence: asking for definitions
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Graduate Finite Square Barrier Scattering Example with Reflection Coefficient Calculation
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Graduate Why is wavefunction complex-valued?
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Graduate Probabilistics of Quantum Physics
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Graduate Psi-Collapse in Nature: Definition and Implications
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Undergrad Hawking Radiation: Mass & Decay Rate
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Graduate Is My Normalized Wave Function Accurate?
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Graduate Feynman propagator on the cylinder - position space representation
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Graduate Understanding Lowering Operator A and Hermitianity
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling math and Schrodinger's Equation
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Graduate Free particles in second quantization
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Graduate BRS: euclidean surfaces a la Cartan
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Graduate Matrix Transformation: U^\dagger vs U
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Graduate Uncertainty principle consist with energy conservation?
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Graduate Tensor product of vector spaces: confusion
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Graduate Am I understanding superposition correctly? Is it equivalent to all-potential ?
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Graduate Energy Principle and Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate Dirac equation for many particles system
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Graduate Rectangular Potential well if hbar -> 0
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Graduate Error in book? (derivation of quantum well)
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Graduate [Req]Help finding equation
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Graduate Does the Chain Rule Apply to Gauge Transformations in Lie Groups?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle on P and E exchange
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Graduate Heuristic derivation of Schrodinger's equation for a layman
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Graduate Probability Density of Particle in Potential Well
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