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How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?
Graduate What does it mean to normalize a non-normalized wavefuction as in
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Graduate Particle in a potential Well interacts with the wall without touching it?
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Graduate Lack of Relativistic Consideration
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Graduate What Are the Selection Rules for the Zeeman Effect?
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Graduate Expectation formula in Dirac notation.
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Undergrad What Does 'me' Represent in This Physics Formula?
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Graduate Is this a correct understanding?
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Graduate Info regarding energy density of empty space?
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Graduate Non-relativistic limit of Klein Gordon (and massless limits)
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Graduate Double slit - where do they aim?
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Graduate Derivation of Schrodingers Equation
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Graduate What is the formula for calculating rotation speed?
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Graduate Simple Math and quantum phyiscs 5 x 0 and e =mc2?
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Graduate What Does It Mean When an Operator Has Two Normalized Eigenstates?
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Graduate Does the existence of a ladder operator imply that the eigenvalues are discrete?
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Graduate Please Compute Concurrence Whats wrong
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Graduate DFT for configuration of atoms
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Graduate Q.M. on S^6, add potential gives Q.M. on S^3?
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Undergrad What is Macroscopic Quantization and How Does it Affect Everyday Objects?
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Graduate Breaking Down the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate The modern view of decoherence: A layperson's qestion
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Graduate Pencil tipping problem - trying to understand uncertainty
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Graduate Measurement collapse as a perturbation?
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Graduate Beginners Question Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Questions about Quantum state, Pauli exclusion principle and chemistry.
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Graduate How to solve the Klein Gordon Complex Field?
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Graduate Infinite volume limit literature?
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Graduate Acceleration of the Photon and the shape of it's wave
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Graduate TED Presentation, April 2009: Allosphere, data visualization
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Graduate Casimir effect - silly question, but
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Graduate Zero points of particle wave function?
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Graduate What do we mean by minus energy ?
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Graduate Particle In a finite potential well
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Graduate Imaginary Time and Path Integrals?
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Graduate Boundary conditions for two dimensional problems in Quantum mechanics
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Graduate Understanding the \hat{\sigma} Matrix
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Graduate Calculating Eigenstates and Eigenvalues of a 2D Quantum Rotor with Perturbation
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Undergrad 3 question of Ballmer experiment
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Graduate Wavefunction of a 2-particle system.
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Graduate Creation and annihilation operator in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What is the Nature of Material Waves in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Why Is (-i d/dx) Chosen as the Momentum Operator in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Wave function of Stationary State
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Graduate A simple QM experiment analysis question
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Undergrad Virtual Particles: How can they be responsible for attractive forces?
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Graduate Understanding Bose-Hubbard Model: Senior Guide
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Undergrad Solving the Mystery of Energy Levels in Hydrogen Atom - Jules
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Graduate Why does the amplitude <p |T| p'> have the dimension of a volume?
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Graduate Direction of vector precession
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Graduate Boundary between deterministic reality and probabilistic reality
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Graduate What Are the Effects of Dispersion and Uncertainty on Wave Packets?
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Can a vulcan study quantum mechanics ?
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Graduate Invariance of the action under a transformation
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Undergrad Help Understanding "Energy Levels" in "Particle in a Box"
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Graduate Significance of Phase Factor in Quantum Mechanics Measurements
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Graduate Simple question about spontaneous particle production
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Undergrad Difference between fluorescence and phorforescence
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Graduate A variation of the double-slit experiment-myth or did somone really do it?
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Graduate Continuity of Function and Derivative at boundary.
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Graduate Pilot Wave Theory: Mechanics Explained
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Graduate Measure Momentum: Experiments & Eigenstate Detection
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Graduate Cardinality argument in the Casimir effect
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Graduate What is the Correct Form of the Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Entangled Electrons: The Mysteries of Non-Locality and Time Travel Explained
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Graduate Double Delta Potential Problem Solution
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Graduate Proving lorentz invariance of Dirac bilinears
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Graduate What is the Difference Between Locality and Separability in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Variational Method: Approximating Complex Wave Functions with Real Quantities?
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Graduate Proving Commuter Operators: X & P
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Graduate Why no EOM in QFT with higher than second order derivatives in time and space?
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Graduate What is physical significance of g factor?
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Graduate One question on average thermal velocity of free electron in metals
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Graduate Four Point Correlation function from Generating Functional
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Graduate Quantum weirdness of photon behavior
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Graduate Functional Quantization of Scalar Fields
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Graduate Solving Bra-ket Multiplication: <n|(a-+a+)^4|n> = 5n2+5n+3
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Graduate Understanding of the Fermion, Boson difference
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Graduate Is the total angular momentum operator J a spherical tensor operator?
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High School A question about plank constant
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Graduate Algebraic (ladder) solutions in QM
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Graduate Is Wave Theory the Key to Understanding All Physical Phenomena?
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Graduate Question about the nature of electrons and the strong force
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Graduate Srednicki 9.17, 9.18: Sum of Diagrams with Single Source Removed
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Graduate What is the QFT picture of forces?
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Graduate Understanding Wave Functions: A Comprehensive Guide
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Graduate Why graviton particle theory concept is not accepted?
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Undergrad How does an Electron 'jump' from one orbit to the other?
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Graduate How Does Pauli-Villars Regularization Handle Three Types of Divergences?
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Graduate Branch-cut singularity and the multiparticle contribution to the full propagator
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Graduate Do we really need loop diagrams?
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Graduate Is the concept of electron shells conceptually realted to quantum tunnelling?
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Graduate Basic question on QFT and the standard model
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Graduate Constructing Wave Function for N-Electron System
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Graduate The wave nature of the wave function.
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Graduate The Frequency of one Photon?
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Graduate Finding the Trace of a Product of 4 SL(2,C) Matrices | Helpful Guide
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Graduate Nonlinear vacuum permittivity?
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Graduate Multitude of Quantum Mechanics questions
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Graduate Is gravity really just an electromagnetic field on a larger scale?
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Graduate Uncollapsing a State: A Fresh Look at the Measurement Problem
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