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Graduate Standard Model Lagrange Density, 2D vectors, Lattice Theory.

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Qubits: Up, Down, and Beyond

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Graduate Relativistic corrections to CHSH vs. Preferred frame

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Graduate Can the Quantum Zeno Effect be solely attributed to decoherence?

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Graduate Is it Possible to Measure Q or P Without Determining x1 and x2 or p1 and p2?

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Graduate RD Thought Experement (wikiversity article)

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Undergrad What is the meaning of En^+ or En^-

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Graduate A seeming contrdiction in deriving wave function for delta function potential

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Graduate Continuity equation for Schrodinger equation with minimal coupling

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Graduate Could the cosmic quantum eraser be used for FTL communication?

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Graduate Density values for e-, p+ and n

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Graduate Where does the sinusoidal form of Schrödinger equation solutions come from?

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Graduate Does the wavefunction have a zero value anywhere?

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Graduate Trying to learn the uncertainty principle

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Graduate Questions for 1-D harmonic oscillators

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Graduate Density of a subatomic particle

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High School What is the difference between probability and probability density?

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Undergrad Simple Energy Levels confusion

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Graduate A relation between photon and electron - need discussion

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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 Does the photon wavefunction represent a wave shape in space?

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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 Do ladder operators imply discrete eigenvalues for bounded observables?

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Graduate Computing concurrence for a two-qubit density matrix

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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 Does the uncertainty principle arise from measurement limitations or a fundamental law?

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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 Finding resources on the σ̂ matrix in the interaction picture

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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 Bose-Hubbard model explanation for beginners

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Undergrad Why does larger n give lower energy in the hydrogen atom equation?

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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 What are energy levels in the particle in a box model?

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Graduate Significance of Phase Factor in Quantum Mechanics Measurements

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Graduate Energy and negative mass in virtual pair production and Hawking radiation

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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 What does a pilot wave physically consist of?

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Graduate How to measure momentum of a particle experimentally

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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 Can entangled electrons stay entangled across relativistic distances and times?

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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 commutator [x, p] = iℏ from basic axioms

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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 Can classical mechanics be rewritten by treating everything as a wave?

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