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Graduate Bhor's rule breaking energy levels

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Graduate Why Distance Between Lines of Hydrogen Spectrum Decreases

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal

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Graduate Quantum physics and equivalence principle

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Graduate Angular momentum - integer or half-integer

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Graduate Software to compute quantum mechanical and thermodynamics properties of ions

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Graduate Why does the uncertainty principle allow temporary energy non-conservation?

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Graduate The Understanding of Particle-Wave Duality (Can it be fully understood?)

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Graduate Calculating the Mass of the Electron: Theory vs. Experiment

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Graduate Why Can't I Show the Simple Identity for the Spin-1 Operator in This Paper?

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Graduate How to debunk a quantum mystic?

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Graduate How do oscillators apply to electromagnetic fields and crystals?

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Graduate Can we ask if a system is in state |φ⟩ without changing it?

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Graduate Confusion about preparing ensemble of particles and no-cloning theorem

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Graduate What's the Force Acting on an Isolated Electron at (0,0,0)?

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Graduate Attractive force between potential wells

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Graduate Estimate ground state energy with HU

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Graduate Experimental realization of Stern-Gerlach SGy filter

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Graduate Symmetry and irreducible representation

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Graduate Probability is square of amplitude or it's product with complex conjugate?

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Graduate Compton Scattering formula for 180 degree scattering.

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Graduate Photon entanglement and fair sampling assumption

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Graduate I want a good refrence for su(2) and it's aplecation

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Graduate Double slit experiment - with molecules?

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Graduate Distinguishing between two quantum states

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Graduate Why Use Free Particle Eigenfunctions for One-Dimensional Quantum Problems?

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Graduate Does Observation Influence Reality in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Entanglement - the Latest Insights?

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Graduate Difference between s-matrix and interactive field propagator?

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Graduate How Does the Fermi Energy of Bare Protons Influence Chemical Reactions?

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Graduate How to Derive Pauli's Equation from Dirac's Equation in a Weak Field?

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Graduate Measurement effect upon wave function

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Graduate Solid state quantum entanglement?

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Graduate Homogeneous and inhomogenous relaxation time

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Graduate Quantum electromagnetic interference

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Graduate Experiments for time-energy uncertainty relation

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Graduate Solving QFT Problem: Deriving <k'|(\partial_\mu \phi^\dag)\phi|k>

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Graduate Schmidt decomposition and bipartite system

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Graduate What Are the Unitaries in the Clifford Group?

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Graduate FTL Messaging: Does Violating Causality Follow?

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Undergrad Is the electromagnetic field quantized?

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Undergrad Effect of Intensity and Frequency on Photoelectric Current

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Graduate QFT general properties operators

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Graduate Is the locality of the propagator affected by the value of M?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Bell's Telephone - Possible FTL Comms?

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Graduate A Very Convincing Quantum Experiment?

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Undergrad Some Explanation with Pauli's Spin Matrices

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Graduate Parity operator and degeneracy in hydrogen atom

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Graduate What does the EPR paper's reality criterion actually mean?

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Graduate Is It Too Late to Learn Quantum Field Theory After Years in a Different Career?

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Graduate Time Localization Same As Indeterminacy?

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Graduate Why can't their be zero-energy at the atomic scale

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Graduate Relaxation time and spatial width

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Graduate Time as a Basis Vector in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Is Bohmian mechanics compatible with the mathematical universe hypothesis?

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Graduate What Determines the Lineshape in a Two-Level System with Spontaneous Emission?

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Graduate Some explanation with spin qantum No

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Graduate Lie groups and angular momentum

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Graduate What is the standard definition of a quantum in physics?

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Graduate Implications of Quantum physics

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Undergrad What is meant by ths wave-particle duality of electrons?

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Undergrad Why do two particles hold themselves together in a vacuum?

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Graduate Confusion on Meaning of Momentum

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Graduate Desintegration of particle into 2 fermions

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Graduate Second order approximation in time independent perturbaton theory

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Graduate Is Quantum Energy Teleportation Experimentally Viable?

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Graduate Are Autoionizing States Necessary for Accurate Wavepacket Representations?

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Graduate Is matter infinitely divisible or bounded by Planck length?

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Graduate Is it possible to capture (contain?) and electron?

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Graduate What is Wave-Particle Duality in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Can We Use Quantum Mechanics to Reset Our Biological State?

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Graduate Angular momentum and Hamiltonian commutator

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Graduate Why are time-ordered integrals called time-ordered?

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Graduate Degenerate pertubation theory when the first order fails

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Graduate Why Tachyons Aren't Allowed in Physics Theory

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Graduate Quantum Energy Teleportation and Decoherence

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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Position of a Neutron Using Wave Functions?

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Graduate Ladder Operators acting upon N Ket

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Graduate Question on the Collapse of the wave function?

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Graduate Pure mixed entangled confusion

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Graduate Is the Movement of Real Fields in Tangent Space Related to Spinors?

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Graduate Transformations in vector space

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Infinitesimal Translation Time Evolution Operator

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Graduate Is the universe fundamentally quantum information?

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Graduate Sidney Coleman Lectures Free on the Net

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Undergrad What is the wavelength of an object at rest according to de Broglie's equation?

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Graduate Interactions between real and virtual particles?

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Graduate Why isn't there a Time operator in QM?

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Graduate Are wavefunctions vectors in a function space or abstract states?

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Graduate Fundamental Quantum Probability

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Graduate Questions about Schrödinger's cat, uncertainty, Higgs boson, and string theory

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Graduate Do Electrons Interact With Virtual Particles?

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Graduate Confused again by uncertainty relation

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Graduate QED: Electron Spin & Magnetic Moment - Questions & Answers

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Dialectics

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Graduate Why dont air molecules cause collapse

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Graduate Why do particles exhibit wave-like behavior in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How Does the Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Tester Utilize Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is the so called orthogonal operator basis ?

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Graduate Why amplitude squared gives probability / Schrodinger Equation

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