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Graduate Why quantum entanglement differs from separating red and blue pens
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Graduate Is there an equivalent of the HUP for spins?
- nomadreid
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Graduate Electrodynamics question and maybe quantum/classical misunderstanding
- jfy4
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Undergrad Does a laser experience recoil due to photon momentum?
- ssope
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Undergrad How is it then when you colide 2 protons
- clm321
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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"?
- Axuality
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Graduate Is there a quantum mechanical acceleration operator?
- jfy4
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Graduate Understanding Spin: Share Your Ideas!
- luxiaolei
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Graduate Perturbation Theory: Deciphering Missing Lines of Explanation
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Graduate Solving radial wavefunction in odd central potential
- FunkyDwarf
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Graduate Understanding S-Wave and P-Wave Annihilation
- fliptomato
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Graduate Bound states of Yukawa potential
- drummerguy
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Graduate Energy Uncertainty Less For High-Energy Particles?
- LarryS
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Graduate Does instantaneous communication implies a preferrred Lorentz frame?
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Graduate What is semi-classical level counting?
- jostpuur
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Srednicki's \langle 0 \mid \phi(x) \mid 0 \rangle?
- LAHLH
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Graduate Why use complex exponentials for matter waves instead of sines
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Undergrad How does quantum observation affect particles without physical contact?
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Graduate Representations and change of basis
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Graduate Behaviour of electron as wave and Particle
- KK
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Graduate BRS: Cellular homology with Macaulay2
- Chris Hillman
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Graduate Are Shankar's equations for example 1.8.6 wrong?
- juan123
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Graduate Oscillation frequency of probability density P(x,t)
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Graduate Hydrogen spin-orbit interaction
- ian2012
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Undergrad How gravity can be bent if its just a messender particle.
- clm321
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Graduate Lorentz Invariant Majorana Neutrinos
- rkrsnan
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Graduate Writing a matrix as an outer product expansion.
- raisin_raisin
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Graduate Solution for Dirac equation with zero mass.
- rkrsnan
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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 Reflection coefficient for finite square barrier scattering
- ronaldoshaky
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Graduate Why is wavefunction complex-valued?
- cadamcross2
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Graduate Probabilistics of Quantum Physics
- Svensken
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Graduate Psi-Collapse in Nature: Definition and Implications
- The thinker
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Undergrad Does Hawking radiation make smaller black holes decay faster?
- srfriggen
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Graduate Is My Normalized Wave Function Accurate?
- intervoxel
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Graduate Feynman propagator on the cylinder - position space representation
- DrFaustus
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Graduate Understanding Lowering Operator A and Hermitianity
- ronaldoshaky
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling math and Schrodinger's Equation
- Stevenpd
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Graduate Free particles in second quantization
- Niles
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Graduate BRS: euclidean surfaces a la Cartan
- Chris Hillman
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Graduate Matrix Transformation: U^\dagger vs U
- Niles
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Graduate Uncertainty principle consist with energy conservation?
- luxiaolei
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Graduate Tensor product of vector spaces: confusion
- Goldbeetle
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Graduate Is superposition describing all potential states of a particle?
- MattAndMatthe
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Graduate Energy Principle and Hydrogen Atom
- sharma_satdev
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Graduate Dirac equation for many particles system
- ranytawfik
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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 Equation for quantizing general relativity from Seeing Black Holes
- kazparov
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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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Graduate Gravitational force on observed particle?
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High School What Are Will 'O The Wisp and Foo Fighters?
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High School If light is a wave then how can it be formed into a laser?
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Graduate Vacuum fluctuations and matter
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Graduate Differential Geometry and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Notation relating to gamma matrices
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Graduate Lippmann-Schwinger Equation
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Graduate What Are the Degrees of Freedom in Lorenz and Columb Gauges?
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Graduate Degeneracy and Symmetrization Requirement
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Undergrad What is Schrödinger's cat used to explain?
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Graduate Antisymmetric wavefunctions for more than two particles
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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment vs Identical Particles
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Graduate Why Did My Teacher Make a Substitution in Transforming a Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Raising and Lowering Indices and expansion
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Graduate Why Don't Photons Get Absorbed in Double Slit Experiments?
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Undergrad Einstein's theory on photoelectric effect
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Undergrad Compton vs Photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Adding spin components on different axes x+x=Z?
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Graduate Why is quantum spacetime necessarily random?
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Graduate Probablity density of 1s in hydrogen atom
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Graduate Finding \Psi(x,t) From Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate What if Hamiltonian is not constant in time?
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Graduate Can Photon Energy Be Equated to Kinetic and Potential Energy?
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Graduate Why do creation and annihilation operators pick out matrix elements like bras and kets?
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Graduate Srednicki QFT chapter 8 question
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Graduate Is quantum potentiality more like weight or a wave?
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Graduate Is energy of a free particle observable?
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Undergrad What vibrates in De Broglie waves?
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Graduate How do gauge transformations relate to constraints in canonical quantization?
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Graduate Photon Off a Mirror: How Does It Work?
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Graduate Solving the Schrödinger Equation for a Step Potential
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Graduate Low dimensional anticommutation example
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Graduate How decoherence affects entanglement between system and environment
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation of Energy
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Graduate Electron Diffraction - One Electron Through Double Slit
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Graduate Planck's Nobel Address - Photon direction
- Andrew Mason
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Graduate Textbook Mistake: Ionization Energy of He+
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Graduate Uncertainty relations aren't Lorentz covariant
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Graduate Spin states of the addition of 2 spin 1/2 particles
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Graduate Superposition and Coherence in quantum physics
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Graduate Nature of probabilistic measurement
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Graduate Does the photon wavelenght come back to original when one path is blocked ?
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Graduate How Do Bare Couplings Relate to Cutoff in Effective Field Theory?
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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Transmit Information Faster Than Light?
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