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Undergrad How Does Spin-Orbit Coupling Affect Quantum Number Validity?

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High School Sun powered by quantum tunneling - question

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Undergrad Exceptions to the postulate of equal a priori probabilities?

  • AndreasC
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High School Reduced Planck Constant vs Dark Matter?

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Undergrad Time-dependence in the Hamiltonian

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High School Turbulence and Quantum Mechanical Probabilities

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Undergrad Stimulated emission in harmonic oscillator

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Undergrad Could Light Absorption Be Linked to Quantum Tunneling?

  • The Baron
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Undergrad Derivation of Eigenfunctions/Eigenvalues of the Momentum Operator

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Undergrad Double delta potential -- Degeneracy of bound states in one dimension?

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Undergrad Do I understand Bell's Inequality Test correctly?

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Undergrad Do Entangled Quantum Particles Remain Aligned After Initial Preparation?

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Undergrad Why is epsilon omitted in the Bohr model photon emission formula?

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Undergrad Simulation of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

  • James Essig
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High School Energy needed for electron's change in energy level in an atom

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High School Understanding Light Quantization

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Undergrad Interesting Scientific American article (The end of QM?)

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High School Which one is correct? (the Matrix or Wave formulation of QM)

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Undergrad How to solve 2nd order TDSE for a Gaussian-kicked harmonic oscillator?

  • skynelson
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Graduate Looking for experts on quantum chaos

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad What is the significance of the dispersion relation?

  • patric44
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Undergrad Normalization of an Eigenvector in a Matrix

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High School Spin collapse in a magnetic field

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Undergrad Free electron path without a nearby proton

  • Tareq Naushad
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Undergrad What does it mean for spins to be anti-phase with each other?

  • docnet
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Undergrad Can a quantum system with internal memory be in an energy eigenstate?

  • mephistomunchen
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High School How does energy interact with quantum particles?

  • prax
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Graduate Renormalizability conditions for a real scalar field in d dimensions

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Undergrad "Filming" a quantum measurement

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Graduate Dimension of \lambda constant in \delta potential

  • LagrangeEuler
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Undergrad An Alternative form of Bell's Inequality

  • jambaugh
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Undergrad How does a particle's acceleration relate to the emitted photon?

  • jactor
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High School Wave Function Collapse using faulty recording devices.

  • Lexovix
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Undergrad Is the change in energy due to light-shift the same in all levels?

  • ErezAgh
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Undergrad Question on circular polarization and the quantum eraser

  • Erik Ayer
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Undergrad Does measurement probability in electron spin include the up-down outcome?

  • rasp
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Undergrad Calc QED Charge Particle Repulsion/Attraction

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Undergrad Are entangled particles really separated?

  • chrisrp
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Undergrad Question on Harmonic Oscillator Series Derivation

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High School Traveling wave solution notation

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Undergrad Quantum Tunneling in an STM: ELI5 Requested

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Undergrad Spontaneous parametric down-conversion entanglement using BBO

  • Paul159
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High School Are photons entangled with a component of the atom that emitted them?

  • Matthew-Champion
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High School Quantum info and its indestructability

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High School Difference between circumflex and non-circumflex operators

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Undergrad Relation between blackbody radiation and spontaneous emission

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Undergrad Constructive Interference of Light

  • jactor
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Undergrad Do Interacting Bosons with Spin 2 Exist for Gluon-like Charges?

  • reinhard55
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Undergrad Rabi Hamiltonian : counter-rotating terms

  • Paul159
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Graduate The exciton dynamics in the FMO complex

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Graduate Non-perturbative description of QFTs

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Undergrad Experimental realizatoin of sequential Stern-Gerlach's

  • nicholas_eng
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Undergrad Functor between the category of Hilbert Space and the category of sets

  • snypehype46
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High School Why do some textbooks divide expectation values by the norm integral?

  • docnet
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Undergrad What is the Bloch-Siegert shift?

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Understanding how to derive the Feynman rules out of the path integral

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Graduate How can a mixed state particle absorb a "quanta" of energy?

  • ForgetfulPhysicist
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Graduate Is there a symmetry in the Unruh effect?

  • Heidi
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Undergrad To understand Bell's inequality

  • mananvp
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High School How does a photon not "feel" electromagnetism?

  • Marshall2389
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Undergrad Bell's Inequality => 4 entangled Photons impossible?

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Undergrad Dimensionless vs. dimensional "constants"

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Undergrad How to work in the |F,m_F> states in hyperfine structure

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Graduate Physically realizable planar graphs in amplituhedron approach

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Undergrad Physical parameters for spin 1/2 particles

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Undergrad Issue with wavenumber in the free particle wavefunction

  • shankk
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Undergrad Simultaneous measurements of 1 observable

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Graduate Eigenvalues of Hyperfine Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Is the classical relation between energy and momentum valid in QM?

  • shankk
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Undergrad Different reference frames in QM

  • BillKet
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Undergrad The Central Field Approximation for Many-Electron Atoms

  • rtareen
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Undergrad Does the wave function spread more quickly after it is observed?

  • Sciencemaster
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Graduate Wave Function Collapse and Thermodynamic Irreversible Processes

  • hyksos
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Undergrad Classical Hayden-Preskill Randomizer

  • vancouver_water
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Undergrad What does L=0 mean physically in the hydrogen atom?

  • LagrangeEuler
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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation for mixed states

  • Jamister
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Undergrad General Magnetic Dipole Moment For an Electron in an Atom

  • rtareen
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High School Entanglement with one photon at double-slit and detector on the other

  • Egghead44
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Graduate Proton Precession in Hydrogen-Rich Liquids

  • Anil Iype
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Undergrad Can two photons cancel each other?

  • QuasarBoy543298
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High School Why does measuring a particle change its properties if the culture existed before study?

  • bertrandrussell
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Undergrad Why doesn't measuring shared electrons break covalent bonds?

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High School Photon absorption -- What happens to the excess energy?

  • jeremyfiennes
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Undergrad Solving Schrödinger's equation for a hydrogen atom with Euler's method

  • Tuca
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Undergrad Photon Emitted without Changing Energy Levels

  • rtareen
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Undergrad Possible to derive geodesics from the wavefunction?

  • Gotbread
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Graduate Why physicists cannot renormalize all divergent integrals?

  • Anixx
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High School Does the energy of an electron vary in the sublevels?

  • AdvaitDhingra
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Undergrad Intuitive/classical picture of electron spin g-factor of 2?

  • AndreasC
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Undergrad 1D wavepacket scattering simulation, momentum distribution formula

  • LucKy
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High School Is there a magnetic interaction between light and charged particles?

  • jeremyfiennes
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High School The match rates in Bell Tests -- Lower than 50%?

  • Cerenkov
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High School Does quantum electrodynamics apply to brain activity?

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Undergrad Does block time resolve action at a distance in entanglement?

  • InterestedParty
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Undergrad QED - running of coupling (beta function)

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Undergrad Parity selection rules for linear and quadratic Stark effects

  • kelly0303
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Graduate How Do Feynman Diagrams Work in Phi^4 Theory?

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Undergrad Constant beam, both slits analyzed double-slit experiment?

  • Kurt Mueller
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High School Does Quantum Eraser Prove That Intention Does Not Create Physical Reality?

  • lashinko
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Undergrad Renormalisation scale and running of the φ^3 coupling constant

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