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Graduate Eigenvalue plots Tannoudji's Quantum Mechanics Vol. II

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Graduate Calculating the Stark Effect (Spectral line splitting)?

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Graduate Time as a series of interactions

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Graduate What are the equation(s) that determine free electron wave amplitude?

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Graduate Ensemble average in quantum computing

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Graduate Concerning the momentum operator

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Graduate Probability of orthogonal polarization in entangled photons

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and energy of an electron

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Graduate How is flavor symmetry breaking achieved in massless quarks?

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Graduate Does Photoelectric Conversion Affect Momentum Transfer in Solar Sails?

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Graduate Also about the Planck hypothesis

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Graduate How is wavelength defined for a particle's associated wave?

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Graduate Direct Product Basis for Interacting Systems

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Graduate Short question: Spontaneous emission from Feynman diagrams?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment - Blind Observer

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Graduate How Does a Quantum Computer Function?

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Graduate How can a complex number represent the size of a set?

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Graduate How Does Quantum Superposition Explain Probability in Wavefunctions?

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Graduate Calculating Eigenkets from Matrix w/ Orthonormal Basis

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Graduate Can quantum interactions with photons be asymmetrical in a QED cavity?

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Graduate Energy quantization in schrodinger equation

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Graduate Commutator of the density operator

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Graduate Is 137 the Maximum Number of Atoms That Can Be Made?

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Undergrad How do electrons move in a helium atom?

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Graduate Explain Adjoint of Commutator Identity in Second Quantization

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Graduate Confusion about getting uncertainty by using differetiation.

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Graduate Why are entanglement and uncertainty principle not mutually exclusive?

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Undergrad Why does m*c*c not equal 0 in the theory of relativity?

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Graduate Mass falling to ground (uncertainty principle)

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Undergrad What is the Nature of Photons?

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Graduate Is time reversible in Quantum Math?

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Graduate If i stand still , you cant find me

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Graduate What exactly is the solution for principle of locality and speed of light?

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Graduate Difference between SU(N)xU(1) and U(N)?

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Graduate Why does special conformal symmetry of Schrödinger equation have cross terms?

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Graduate Wave Properties of Electrons and their Atomic Orbitals

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Graduate Have one photon at a time edge diffraction experiments been conducted?

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Graduate Naive picture of understanding Spin-Orbit Coupling

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Graduate Quantized energy in infinite potential well

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Graduate Physical Significance of the Product Av for Non-Eigenvector States

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Graduate Poisson brackets, commutators, transformations

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Graduate A newbies question on randomness.

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Graduate Can we predict element decay using Quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Solution to the Problem of Correlation of Matter and Field

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Undergrad Could someone explain the Schrodinger's Cat experiment to me?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle and limit of momentum.

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Graduate What are postulates and what are derived?

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Graduate Is anything physically impossible in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Bundle of tiny randomly orientated magnets through a Stern-Gerlach app

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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillator minimum energy

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Undergrad Stimulated Emission: Intuitive Explanation Needed

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Graduate Why Are All Photons in a Laser Beam Coherent?

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Graduate Thermodynamic Basis of the Exclusion Principle

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Graduate What is the Source of the Positive Charge of a Proton?

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Graduate How do you define macroscopic realism?

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Undergrad Planck's Constant: Determining Avogadro Number

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Graduate Self-reference, measurment and entanglement

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Graduate How Does Heisenberg's Microscope Observe Electrons Outside the Aperture Angle?

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Graduate Controlling Spin of an Entangled Particle, Causality

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Undergrad Carrier Mobility of a semiconductor

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Graduate Electromagnetic fields around neutrons?

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Graduate Quantum Gravity Research: Bohmienne Quantum Gravity Documentation

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Graduate The wave equation in a Black Hole.

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Graduate Bell inequality tests questions

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Graduate Correlation Functions in Path Integral Formulation of QFT

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Graduate What is a measurement? (layperson question)

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Graduate Does a particle with spin 1/2 have one energy level?

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Graduate Does quantum mechanics disprove physical realism?

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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 Why does the time-energy uncertainty principle have different constants?

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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 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 Why did Einstein reject quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What physical entity is an operator in quantum measurement?

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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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Resources for learning quantum physics

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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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