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Graduate Detection bias in Bell tests and local realism viability

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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 Resources for 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 Do gravitons exhibit Doppler shift?

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Graduate Integrating product of delta functions

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Graduate Superposition of states of the hydrogen atom

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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 Are particles fundamental or just useful approximations?

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Graduate Why Does Term Not Appear in Classical Lagrangian for Spin 1/2 Electrodynamics?

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Graduate What is Spin Hall effect and quantum hall effect

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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty principle

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Graduate Schrodingers equation for the hydrogen atom.

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Graduate History of the Taylor-Phipps version of the Stern-Gerlach experiment

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Graduate Symmetric and Anti-Symmetric Wavefunctions

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High School Entry level quantum mechanics books for non-scientists

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Graduate How can objects have wavelengths?

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Graduate Detection of a non-interacting particle

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Graduate Bloch sphere model for many spins?

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Graduate Can quantum mechanics concepts model economic systems?

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Graduate Alain Aspect's Experiment: Investigating Non-locality and Entangled Photons

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Graduate Wave function collapse and the statistical nature of quantum states

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Graduate Entanglement in scattering processes

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Graduate Charmonium Mass Estimation: Trial Wavefunction for Variational Method

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Graduate Quantum Field Theory and Mereological Nihilism/Atomism

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Graduate How do fields change if there's no void

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Graduate Dual slit experiment: closing/opening a slit after the particle passes it. .

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Graduate Proving Identity of S12^2 in Two Particle System

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Graduate Are physicists happy with Quantum Mechanics as it is?

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Graduate Single degree of freedom vs cartesian coordinates in EPR paper

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Graduate Atomic Components and the Absorption of Photons

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Graduate How can something be massless?

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Vacuum Energy and Fluctuations?

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Undergrad Why does kx equal ωt at all points on a travelling wave?

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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment: Does Interference Pattern Change?

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Graduate Calc Feynman Amp Q: Chi+ Chi- -> Chi+ Chi-

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Graduate Is Causality in Quantum Mechanics as Clear-Cut as in Classical Mechanics?

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Undergrad Relationship Between Energy and Wavelength

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Graduate The Born Von Karman Boundary Conditions

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Graduate The Quantum Phenomenon and the Staring Phenomenon

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Graduate Bra/ket notation resources for spin states and eigenvalues

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Graduate How can the Planck length be claimed to be the smallest length?

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Graduate What is integrable quantum field theory and how does it relate to QFT?

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Graduate Why does the electromagnetic field adjust when a charged field changes phase?

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Graduate No entropy/environment = no time flow?

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Graduate Where Can I Find Resources for Understanding Stern-Gerlach Experiment Math?

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Graduate What is integrable quantum field theory and how does it relate to QFT?

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Graduate Where does the Schrödinger equation come from?

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Undergrad Understanding Decoherence: Simplifying a Complex Concept in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Why is the Hilbertspace complex?

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Graduate Can someone give me a geometrical description of the math in QM?

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Graduate Ladder operators, a technical question

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Graduate QCD Meson Potential: Physics Community Agreement?

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Graduate Do gravitons spiral around a monopole?

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Graduate Particles as representations of groups

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Graduate Particle Trajectory & Velocity in Bubble Chamber vs HUP

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Graduate Bizzard measurement outcome of Angular Momentum, Why?

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Undergrad Looking for a More Practical Quantum Mechanics Book?

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Graduate Is it true photons will not produce an interference pattern in a vacuum?

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Graduate Matter waves are oscillations in what medium?

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Undergrad Time for photon to reach the furthest point of diffraction?

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Graduate Are Finite Well Bound States Enough for a Complete Basis in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Interacting theory lives in a different Hilbert space [ ]

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Graduate Is the Placement of Branch Cuts in ln(-s^2-iε) Physically Significant?

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Graduate Good Resources for Feynman's Path Integral

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Graduate Can photons affect each other's trajectories?

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Graduate Clarifying Symmetry in Le Bellac's Quantum Physics

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Undergrad Is the Photon's Energy Doubled in a Coherent Pair?

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Graduate Can the SR Concept of Reference Frames be Applied to Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why the rank of an irreducible tensor must be an integer?

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Undergrad How Does the Wavefunction Differ for Photons Compared to Electrons?

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Graduate What is conformal field theory?

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Graduate Relationship between Dyson's equation and Heisenberg equation of motion

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Graduate What does space quantization of angular momentum actually signify?

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Graduate Kochen-Specker for two particles

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Graduate Incertitude relations from QFT

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Graduate When do the laws of general relativity breakdown?

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Graduate Do diffracted particles split or transform into waves?

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Graduate Quantum gases. The ideal Fermi gas

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Graduate Parity and Time Reversal symmetries.

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Graduate Do people really understand quantum physics or just pretend to?

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Graduate Is a double/single slit experiment possible in a gas chamber?

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Graduate Causality and the Role of Propagator in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Is the Planck mass the smallest possible unit of matter?

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Graduate Testing if the momentum operator is Hermitian

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Graduate Stark-broadening and plasma polarization

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Graduate Functional diffential-integral equations

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Undergrad 2 Questions on superpostion (Double slit experiment)

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling: Observed properties of the particle within the barrier.

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Graduate How is the system-environment interaction random in quantum decoherence?

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Graduate Is the S-matrix Consistent with Time Dependent Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Is the determinant of a mixed state density matrix always positive?

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Graduate Why is the transition from 3P1 to 3S1 in Helium forbidden?

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