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Graduate Why do electrons in a current not repel each other?

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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 What are wave functions?

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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 Trace of a product of four Pauli matrices

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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 Can a collapsed quantum state be reversed before measurement is complete?

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Graduate Entangled particles and measurement

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Graduate The particle INSIDE the barrier

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Graduate Loschmidt's paradox-II: Quantum Decoherence

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Graduate Amplitude damping with harmonic oscillators

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Graduate Attosecond Spectroscopy, QM, and Atomic Geometry

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Graduate Wave particle duality as applied to photon

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Graduate Variational method in a finite square well

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Graduate Can Operators A and B Always Be Applied to a General State in Tensor Space?

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Graduate How can I get the wave function

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Graduate Determinism of the wave function

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Graduate Defense of pilot wave theory against Motl

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Graduate Recovering the generator of rotation from canonical commutation relations

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Graduate Uncertainty principle and standard deviation.

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Graduate Entanglement: Understanding the 2 Electron System States

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Graduate Since protons are not spherical, are their charge fields non-spherical?

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Undergrad What is Field? Understanding its Nature and Properties

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Undergrad How many electrons in all of 6f oribtals?

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Graduate Solve 1-D Potential Barrier: Electron, Width 8 Angstroms, Depth 12eV

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Graduate Why doesn't measuring Alice's spin affect Bob's in the EPR paradox?

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Graduate Eigenstates of the Hamiltonian

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High School Why does a red ball absorb white light and reflect only red photons?

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Graduate Does timing photon emission resolve the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Quantum Observer: Can We Perceive Atomic Reality?

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Undergrad What Causes Saturated Absorption in Materials?

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Graduate QFT Recipe: Outlining the Formal Structure

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Graduate How are electrons considered waves?

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Graduate Entangled protons in a crystal lattice

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Graduate Probability Current Density or Flux

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Graduate Input and Output with a Quantum Computer etc

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Graduate Probability of measuring distance between two particles within ±d

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Graduate Entanglement and String Theory

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Undergrad Gaussian Wavepacket Tunnel Through double barrier

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Graduate Representation of second quantization

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Graduate What does dominate mean when quantum effects dominate at Planck length?

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Graduate State/wave function after measurement?

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Graduate Susceptibility: Imaginary Part = 0 - What Does it Mean?

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Graduate QFT Lorentz transformation question

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Graduate Missing factor of √2 in raising operator derivation

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Graduate Properties and Elements of SO(4) Group in 4 Dimensions

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Undergrad Introductory quantum cryptography resources for undergraduates

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Graduate Discrete and continuous confusion

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Graduate Deriving Schrodinger Eq. from Complex Plane Wave: Erwin's Way

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Graduate Violation of Bell's inequality

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Graduate What are the fundamental information-processes in physics?

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Graduate Can the Bohr Model really prevent electron energy loss?

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Graduate Path Intergral quantization for Relativistic Point like particle?

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Graduate Is the quantum Zeno effect really accurate?

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Graduate Wave-particle duality of phonons?

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Graduate From quantum field theory to quantum mechanics

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Graduate What is the infrared divergence problem in quantum field theory?

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Graduate How do Lie groups and algebras generate unitary operators in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Speed of light in transparant materials

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Graduate Does EPR contradict SR in non-relativistic QM?

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Graduate Violating uncertainity principle

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Undergrad How does electron change properties of matter?

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Graduate Double slit experiment with spin

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Graduate Asymptotic behaviour after perturbation

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Graduate Double slit experiment in a Bubble Chamber

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Undergrad Solving for E(0) in Equation: Vacuum Permittivity

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Undergrad How to switch between momentum/real space

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Graduate Is Time Discrete or Continuous?

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Graduate Weinberg Vol 1: Understanding Index Arrangement in (2.4.8) LT Transformations

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Graduate Constructing Optimal Unitary Operators for Distinguishing Quantum States

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Graduate Delta-function potentials, scattering states

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Graduate How many measurements are needed to verify the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Discussing Exciting Topics in Quantum Optics

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Undergrad What is the correct order of operations for differentiating r^2 with 2/r*d/dr?

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Graduate Charge of down, up , electron; (-1/3, 2/3, -1)*3 more natural?

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Undergrad Why do electrons in lower atomic orbits have smaller wavelengths?

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Graduate Diagonalization of large non-sparse matrices

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Graduate How can energy be quantized with E=hv

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Graduate Stationary Perturbation Theory

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Graduate Calculation of probabilities in QM

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Graduate Tunneling time for electron in double square well potential

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Graduate Angular momentum commutator derivation

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Graduate Quantum Electronics: Basics, Applications, Semiconductor Lasers

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Graduate Is the entanglement of photons necessary for interference?

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Graduate A local deterministic theory that violates Bell's inequaities

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Graduate Intuitive Understanding for Commutation

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Graduate Regarding the observer effect.

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Graduate SUSY computational questions:dots

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