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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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Graduate Singlet and Triplet Spin States

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Graduate Photon and the field generated by an accelerated charge

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Graduate Field of an accelerated electron falling down to nucleus versus photon

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Graduate What is the Role of Conformal Symmetry in De Sitter Relativity?

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Graduate Can spacetime itself be entangled to enable teleportation?

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Graduate How does the hermiticity of Hamiltonian restrict its Lagrangian?

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Graduate Question on irreducible versus reducible Feynman graphs

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Graduate What Distinguishes an Excitation Spectrum from an Absorption Spectrum?

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Graduate Time derivative of momentum expectation?

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Graduate Basic question on Zee-QFT in a nutshell

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Undergrad Applying the time-independent Schrödinger equation to a 1D harmonic oscillator

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Graduate A glance beyond the quantum model

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Graduate Equipment for Quantum eraser experiment

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Graduate Absolute Time vs Relative Time

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Undergrad Is Wave-Particle Duality Really Real? An Analysis of the Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate How Many Qubits Are Needed to Accurately Simulate Hydrogen Molecules?

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Graduate What's algebraic approach to QM good for?

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Graduate Solving 1 electron atom Schrodinger Equation in rectangular coordinates?

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Graduate Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from Local realism ruled out? )

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Graduate How quantum theory explains specific heat variation in solids

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Graduate Group velocity is equal to the particle velocity?

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Graduate Antiunitary time reversal operator

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Graduate Does the Violation of Bell Inequality Challenge Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Concerning Quantum computers and information

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Graduate Eigenvalue of the coherent state

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Graduate Need of Wave Packet: Schrodinger's Postulate

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Graduate Retrocausality solves QM problems?

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Undergrad What determines photon wavelength in electron transitions?

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Graduate Information Loss in Photon Absorption?

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Graduate Quanta and the conservation of energy

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Graduate Partial vs. Total Time Derivatives of Kets

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Graduate EPR had a simple but powerful definition

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Graduate How are quantum numbers used to classify eigenvectors of a Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Quantum mechanics at a biological macro level

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Undergrad How does a single photon interfere with itself in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Electrons, holes and positrons

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Graduate Quantum spreading of polarization

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Undergrad Using 74LS logic ICs with Karnaugh maps

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Graduate Can photons and antiphotons annihilate when they collide?

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Undergrad How Do Karnaugh Maps Simplify Boolean Algebra?

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Graduate Momentum eigenfunction question

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Graduate Does this experiment demonstrate that conscoiusness causes collapse?

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Graduate Exponential of creation/annihilation operators

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment and Measurements

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Graduate Do fermions at a black hole singularity create Higgs bosons?

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Graduate Equation for the density of states

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Graduate What is the General Solution for Finding Orthonormal Bases in C^2?

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Graduate Why doesn't the electron radiate?

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Graduate Suggestion about research object(quantum mechanics)

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Graduate Static Electric Fields / virtual photons / Ionization

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Graduate Normalize wave functions with exponential factors

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Graduate Why do objects have a uniqueness and not blend?

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Graduate On the definition of Active Transformation

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Graduate Weinberg, QTF, pg 60:very specific question

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Graduate Why do QM particles with l<S vanish in a classical radiation field?

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Graduate The Casimir Effect as a source of clean/green energy?

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Graduate Why use tensor products to combine separate quantum systems

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Graduate Energy Liberated in Electron/Proton Annihilation

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Graduate Quantum mechanics hydrogen atom

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Graduate Understanding Zeroth Order Approximations in Landau Level Equations

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Undergrad Is What the Bleep Do We Know? Scientifically Accurate?

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Graduate What is a mass independent renormalization scheme

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Graduate Harmonic oscillator in matrix form

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling, Coulomb Barriers and Fusion

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Graduate What is responsible for quantization?

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Graduate Why Use Position-Space Calculations in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Can the de broglie formula still hold in a medium with reduced speed of light?

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Graduate Superposition of the solutions of the Shrodinger equation

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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Really Exist in Our Universe?

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Graduate Lorentz-Transforming a Newton-Wigner State

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Graduate What exactly is the Sigma-ket-bra?

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Graduate Is it possible for photons to dissappear in vacuum.

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Graduate Research Problem - 4-body Decay

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Graduate Why are even and odd functions orthogonal in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Thermodynamic Evidence for Water as a Quantum Mechanical Liquid

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Graduate Quantifying the unQuantifyable?

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Graduate Classically a particle cant exist in a region where V>E

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Graduate Mass of field for small fluctuations

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Graduate Fourier Transform of a productof Green functions

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Graduate How Does Electron Screening Affect Charged Particle Scattering in Atoms?

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Why was the thread on Lamb's paper on the photoelectric effect locked?

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Graduate Operator in second quantization

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Graduate Collapse of wavefunction - how long it takes?

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Graduate Why is -ih/2pi d/dx associated with the momentum operator in X basis?

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Graduate Feynman on infinite particles inside protons and relativity

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Graduate Fermions must be described by antisymmetric and bosons by symmetric

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Graduate Recommended introductory quantum mechanics textbooks

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Graduate Why reflection coefficient equals 1 for step potential when E<V0

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Graduate Why does spin add in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What does the product AB of non-commuting operators represent physically?

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Graduate When to use different forms of harmonic oscillator raising and lowering operators?

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Graduate How Does the Charge Conjugate Dirac Field Transform in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Why Photon Spin on Z Direction Must be +1 or -1

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