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Undergrad Losing Electrons: How Much Energy & Is it Possible?

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Graduate Antisymmetry of final State Requiring L = 1

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Graduate Leonard Susskind improvisation on the uncomfortable notion of probability ;)

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Graduate Angular Momentum: Quantization, Components, & Direction

  • Master J
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Graduate Planck's constant, h. The limit goes to zero?

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Undergrad Why is there hybridization of orbitals?

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Graduate What is a non-orthogonal measurement?

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Graduate Help: Planck Scale and Fine Structure Constant

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Graduate What is the actual size of a photon?

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Graduate Classical limit of the commutator is a derivative?

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Graduate Self-adjointness domain of P_r^2

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Graduate What is the Density of States for Electrons in Metal?

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Graduate Why Would a Finite Well Fluctuate?

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Undergrad Understanding Schrödinger's Cat: A Non-Physicist's Perspective

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Graduate Reformulation instead of Renormalizations

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Graduate How can Uncertainty principle be used to get speed of alpha particle

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Undergrad How light travels through glass

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics on Diatomic Molecule: Info Sources

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Graduate How to fit quantum LHO into quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Zeeman Effect: Counting Frequencies and Explaining Zero Frequency

  • KFC
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Graduate Time in a Steady-State Quantum System

  • LarryS
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Graduate Hydrogen Atom Radial Wave Function (limit problem)

  • Master J
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Graduate OPEs in conformal field theory

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Graduate Bell's Theorem and Counterfactual Definiteness

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Graduate Second Quantization: Wave Function & Creation/Annihilation Operators

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Graduate Double Slit/Photo Detection/Is it the SAME photon?

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Graduate Probability of finding a particle in a certain state, using projection

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Graduate Why is Time Not an Operator in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Real and imaginary parts of wave function

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Graduate Weak Measurements and Determinism

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Graduate How Do Electron Spin Effects Vary in Pairs of Electrons?

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Graduate I now know what slit the photon came out of

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Graduate Spin - any book recommendations?

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Graduate Square integrable functions blowing up at infinity

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Graduate Shooting humans through a giant double slit experiment

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and lifetime

  • Niles
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Graduate Global symmetry of an N-component Klein-Gordon theory?

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Graduate Teaching Yourself Quantum Mechanics and Prerequisites

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Graduate Does chaos means long term numerical simulations useless?

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Undergrad Simple explaination of pertibation theory

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Graduate Spin Up/Down: Is it Really That Simple?

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Graduate What is spin for neutral particles

  • ArielGenesis
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Photon Wavelength Reflection and Momentum Transfer"

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Graduate How Does Observation Influence the Reality of the Universe Before Observers?

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Graduate Coincidence counting in Bell experiment

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Graduate Is it acceptable to use plane waves?

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Graduate What properties does Baym use to derive the L commutation relation?

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Graduate Books detailing Bell's inequality derivation

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Graduate Entanglement entropy vs Entropy

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Graduate How can we visualize the negative sign in electron wave functions?

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate What is the Quantum Explanation for the Law of Malus?

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Graduate Effect of Negative permittivity?

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Undergrad Does a photon travel in a straight line?

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Graduate Wave function of an observer, 'always collapsed'?

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Graduate Ward identities in Minimal Subtraction Scheme

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Graduate Quantum computing (Why is it important?)

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Graduate Bells inequality be satisfied with equivalent local QM?

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Graduate Reading the value of a qubit without changing its value

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Graduate Two slit experiment - variable detector

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Graduate Can the wave function be a constant?

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Graduate Electron frequency and wavelength

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Graduate Overlap integrals: What are they and how do we arrive at the formula?

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Graduate Equal Commutators: What Do They Tell Us?

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Graduate How does a magnetic feild work?

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Graduate Pauli Matrices as generators of SU(2)

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Graduate What Happens to Photons During Ionization?

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Graduate Time Particles: Are They the Key to Understanding the Universe?

  • ryan albery
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Graduate What are the practical uses of Berry's Phase in scientific research?

  • Niles
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Graduate Feynman diagrams - neutrino interactions

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Graduate Quantum Physics Debate, Is It Relevant?

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Undergrad Physical properties & threshold frequency

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Graduate Two particle probability density

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Graduate Do MB statistics imply distinguishability of electrons?

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Graduate Solving 3D Schrodinger Equation - Explaining 1/X(x) Term

  • Master J
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Graduate Is the Missing Mass in the Universe Similar to Water in a Pond?

  • buckrogers
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Graduate Calculating Bethe Stopping Power Constant: 606,235 or 78,500?

  • John2
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Graduate Question regarding the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

  • zeromodz
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Graduate Why is the integral of the Dirac Delta potential related to its properties?

  • alejandrito29
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Graduate Wick's Theorm to Feynman Diagrams?

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Graduate [cryptography] quantum key distribution

  • martman
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Graduate What are the latest research trends and resources on entanglement entropy?

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Undergrad Scanning tunneling microscopes, physics lab

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Graduate Some Explanation about Heisenberg,s Uncertainty Particle

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Graduate Bonding and electron transfers using the model of electrons as a wave

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Graduate The Unfair Sampling Assumption & Bell Tests

  • DrChinese
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Graduate The magnetic field of a photon

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Graduate Hermitian conjugation and conserved current in the Dirac equation

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Graduate MUST the variation of the action be zero?

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Graduate Exploring Bound State Calculations in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Probability of superposition of states

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Graduate Scalar product of many-particle states?

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Graduate What chronology of Bell inequalities testing ?

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Graduate Massless Particles: Carrying Momentum?

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Undergrad New to Graviton & Doppler Shift: Need Help Understanding

  • kevinrichart
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Graduate Integrating Delta Functions: The Result

  • alejandrito29
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Graduate Superposition of states of the hydrogen atom

  • lavster
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Graduate Can the Double Slit Experiment be Performed with Single Particle Detection?

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Graduate Momentum Operator Construction

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Graduate Particles: Are They Just Useful Macroscopic Approximations?

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