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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 How do you solve bound state problems in quantum field theory?

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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 What does force constant mean for each vibrational mode in 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 Why does cavity energy density equal emitted black body radiation?

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

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Graduate Understanding Ladder Operators

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Graduate Can a single light wave be split multiple times using quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Atomic Interactions with External EM Fields

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Graduate Can electrons cross radial nodes in hydrogen orbitals?

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Undergrad Classical Physcics VS Quantum Physics

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Graduate Hidden variables, Bell's theorem, etc

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Graduate Two electrons in a potential well

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Graduate Angular momentum (L) in z-axis of hydroxyl radical

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Graduate Do physicists agree that unified field exists ?

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Graduate Why doesn't J_+J_-J_+ simplify by cancellation?

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Graduate A Quantum Mechanical model of measurement

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Graduate What Does a Complex Momentum Value Indicate in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Semiclassical quantization rules and Langer's modification

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Graduate Do Point-Particles Truly Lack Spatial Extension?

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Graduate Why Did We Shift from Electron Orbitals to Electron Clouds?

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Graduate Can Electron Spin Affect Current Flow?

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Graduate Can the Stern-Gerlach experiment accurately measure electron spin?

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Graduate Solving Antisymmetric Part of Grassman Numbers Sum

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Graduate 2d Wavepacket in relativistic QM

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Graduate Notation question: partial derivative with arrow

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Undergrad Difference between particle physics and quantum physics

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Graduate Pseudospectral method vs spectral method

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Graduate What does it mean when a direct product appears in an exponent?

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Graduate Definition of time-ordered product for Dirac spinors

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Graduate Is light really a particle or a wave?

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Graduate What Are Mesoscopic Cat States and Their Superpositions?

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Graduate Where can I find perturbation theory formulas up to fourth order?

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Graduate Understanding Energy and Spin Interactions in the Ising Model

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Graduate Why is a dipole neutral if it has two charges?

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Graduate Point symmetry group matrix representations

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Graduate Finding the Result of (a+a#)^n

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Graduate What happens to Entangled Photons after a polarizing beamsplitter (PBS)?

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Graduate Galilean Algebra in the low velocity limit of Poincare Algebra (Weinberg vol 1)

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Graduate Perturbations to all orders (Srednicki ch19)

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Graduate What's the (Electron) Frequency, Kenneth?

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Graduate How Do Photons Carry Electromagnetic Force?

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Graduate Quantum teleportation implications

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Graduate What Energy is Released at the Moment of Death?

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Graduate Degeneracy of the 3d harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Quantum Physics and Black holes

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Graduate Matrix element <j m | S²₊ |j m > in Sakurai 3.5.37

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Graduate No info transferred means SR and Entanglement do not conflict

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement - electron spins

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Graduate Why take FINITE time for an electron to observe a photon?

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Graduate What happens if two electrons collide?

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Graduate Degenerate Fermi Gas: Why is it Called Degenerate?

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Graduate Why do particles travel along smooth paths in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How can superfluid helium have zero and non-zero viscosity simultaneously?

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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 give insight into 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 How is Srednicki equation 7.7 a shift by constant?

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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 Weyl vacuums: definition, geometric properties and 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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