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Graduate Universal quantum physics
Graduate Does Quantum Physics Challenge Our Understanding of Reality?
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Graduate Have magnetic monopoles been detected?
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Graduate Is there slight evidence we live in block universe?
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Can anyone assist with obtaining a copy of Birgit Dopfer's Phd thesis?
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Graduate Hermitian operators in schrodinger eqn.
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Graduate Time-Energy Uncertainty Principle: Info & Derivation
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Graduate Average energy of a harmonic oscillator
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Graduate How Can a Single Vector Represent Multi-Dimensional Quantum Information?
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Graduate Velocity of spin & electron velocity ?
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Graduate Orthogonality of wave function of finite potential well
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Graduate Can Negative Probabilities Unveil Inconsistencies in MWI Branches?
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Graduate What happens to the wave function after an operator transformation?
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Graduate Velocity dependent fermion number?
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Graduate What is actually phase velocity?
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High School Albert Einstein & Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate QM: Measurement Operation & Operators Explained
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Graduate How Does the Uncertainty Principle Apply to Electron Beams and Gas Molecules?
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Graduate How to check if Lagrangian is parity invariant?
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Graduate Does a beam of entangled photons create interference fringes?
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Graduate What exactly is barrier tunneling and potential barrier?
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Graduate Commutator of kinetic energy and potential energy
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Graduate Does a position operator exist?
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Graduate Elastic scattering and momentum conservation
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Graduate Quantum Holograms: What do you think of skepdic.com?
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Graduate Please suggest a book including cross section
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Graduate Varying cross section superconductor
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Finding Resources for Beginners
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Graduate Young's Light-Double Slit Experiment: Is There a Minimum Ratio?
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Graduate Measuring Position of a Quantum Mechanical Particle
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Graduate Wave Functions: Understanding Moving Particles
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Graduate Moving from Dirac equation to Lagrangian density
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Graduate Sequential stern-gerlach experiment
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Graduate Wave function collapse and entanglement
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Graduate Need Help Understanding Misner Space Terminology
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Graduate IS THIS the Heisenberg uncertainity principle?
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Graduate Why doesn't the electron have a definite position?
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Graduate Matter Waves: What Does Frequency Represent?
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Graduate Dirac conserved current vs Klein-Gordon conserved current
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Graduate Can the Pendulum of Time Model Explain Double-Slit Experiment Results?
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Graduate Attractive Forces: Delta V, E', and E0 Explained
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Graduate Metric and Covariant Derivative
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Graduate Azimuthal quantum number,l and magnetic quantum number, m
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Graduate Formula for Amplitude of a Photon
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Graduate Qutrit Teleportation: Understand How it Works with Nielson and Chuang
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Graduate Can Isolation Turn You Into a Wave Function?
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Graduate Can We Construct a Detector for Precise Arrival Time of Monochromatic Photons?
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Graduate How Can Variational Calculus Enhance Your Understanding of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How is entanglement not weird ?
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Undergrad Does a Photon Bounce? - Learn How Photons Interact with Mirrors
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Graduate Does the Uncertainty Principle Suggest a Predetermined Universe?
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Graduate Photon absorption and probability of atomic electron transition
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Graduate Two-Photon Physics: Creation of Matter & Photon Absorption
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Graduate Varying mass in Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Is Quantum Measurement Uncertainty Due to Methods or the Act of Observation?
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Graduate Ensuring Clean Quantum Measurements in the Stern-Gerlach Experiment
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Graduate Quantum corrections to force laws
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Graduate Dirac Equation Derivation with Inhomogeneous Lorentz Group in QFT Book
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Graduate Alternate formulation of Dirac Notation
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Graduate Srednicki Path Integrals eq 6.22
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Graduate What is the essence of quantization?
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Undergrad Bohr's Quantization of Angular Momentum
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Graduate Quantum uncertainty on macroscopic scale
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Undergrad Electron Transition: Why Doesn't Excited Electron Absorb Extra Photon?
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Graduate Understanding the Infinite Square Well Problem | Bound States & Eigenfunctions
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Paradox in Modified EPR Experiments?
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High School How Does Light Become Polarized by Reflection?
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Graduate Bundle of energy, but does it have mass?
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Graduate Dirac delta function is continuous and differential
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High School Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Momentum conservation in the photoelectric effect
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Graduate About an (informal, discussion-oriented) Quantum Physics model
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Graduate Why is linear algebra essential in understanding quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Questions on Quantum Physics: Compton's Scattering & Dirac's Relativistic Energy
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Graduate Quantum Measurements and Macroscopic Objects
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Graduate Nuclear magnetic resonance dipole dipole interaction
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Graduate Understanding the Wavefunction: Interpreting its Role in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Derived form of plancks distance
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Graduate Pion Nucleon Scattering and Group Theory in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Wilson loops (srednicki eqn. 82.37)
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Graduate Wick rotation is consistent with caculus?
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Graduate Having trouble understanding the wave function collapse.
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Graduate How Does Bifurcation in Dynamical Systems Influence Information Generation?
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Graduate If a system is made of 3 atoms with no degeneracy with energy levels
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Graduate Solving the Measurement Problem: Imagine Yourself in a Room
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Graduate Quantum Locality: Resolving QM and SR Compatible?
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Graduate Reconstruction of potential V(x)
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Graduate Self-Adjoint Operators and Reversible Logic gates
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Graduate About Feynman's 'QED:The strange theory of light and matter'
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Graduate Did Scientists Prove Current Measurements Change the Past?
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Graduate Understanding Unpolarized Current & Light
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Graduate I think I have good questions About superposition and splitting
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Graduate Negative energy photon emission
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Graduate How Can Degenerate Perturbation Theory Help Identify Zero Order Eigenstates?
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Graduate Quantum Superposition Explained - Is It Possible?
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Graduate Reality, locality and determinacy.
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Graduate What is the relationship between quantum bits and classical measurements?
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Graduate New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries
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Graduate Photons do not travel in straight lines
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Graduate Transition from QFT to Classical Physics using Path Integrals?
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Graduate Entropy and the Uncertainty Principle
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