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Graduate Universal quantum physics
Undergrad Question about visible light properties.
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Graduate Why don't the Slits collapse the wave function?
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Graduate Did photon obey Uncertainity Principle?
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Writing a science fiction novel
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Graduate Commutator of Position and Energy
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Graduate Antimatter interact with massive matter through gravity.
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Graduate Particle collisions collapse wave function?
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Graduate About Feynman rules for an external field
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Graduate Young's Double Slit experiment
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Graduate Understanding the Energy of a Particle in Momentum Representation of QM
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Graduate What makes schrodinger cat quantum?
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Graduate Does a Collision in Space Affect a Spaceship's Center of Mass Motion?
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Graduate QM Questions: Intro & Two Conceptual Issues
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High School Electron Orbits and Nuclei 2- Rotation vs Orbital Motion
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Graduate Simultaneous diagonalization and replacement of operators with eigenvalues ?
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High School Does Light Have a Charge? Mystery Explored
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Graduate Generator of rotations rotations of WHAT?
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Graduate Expectation of the Wilson Loop
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Graduate Is 3s to 2s transition for Hygrogen forbidden?
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Graduate Very elementary notation question
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Undergrad Uncertainty in simple harmonic oscilator
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Graduate Understanding UV/IR Terminology in Physics
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Graduate Comparing Electrons & Quarks: Mass, Charge & Size
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Graduate The Difference Between a Few Terms
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Graduate Lorentz Algebra in Boosts for the spin-1/2 Dirac Field
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Graduate Path Integrals in QED: Solve by Substituting Classical Solution?
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Graduate A silly question I'm sure about Feynman's many paths
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Graduate Moments in QM: When Can I Say JLS^2 Approx Equal JL+S?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle violation?
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling - some silly thoughts
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Graduate Parallel universes and the Quantum Field
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Undergrad Electron Phasepositive and negative?
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Graduate Cutting off our Ignorance:renormalization
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High School Basic Explanation of Boson: What is it?
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Graduate When does entanglement actually end?
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Graduate Producing Pure States in Practical Systems: Challenges and Compromises
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Undergrad Plotting Orbitals: Easy Formulas for Non-Physicists
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Graduate Why can fermions occupy only one state and
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Graduate Integer quantum hall effect - edge states/bulk effects
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Graduate On the definition of Von Neumann entropy
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and the size of an atom
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Graduate Auto-Compensating Polarization Changes with Mirror/Reflector and Faraday Mirror
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Graduate What Is the Explanation for the Graviton's Wave Length and Mass?
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Graduate Understanding Bra-Ket Notation in Shankar
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Graduate Schmidt Decomposition: Is It Enough to Find States?
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Graduate Do Scattering Amplitudes Have Dimensions?
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High School Something called wavevector, k
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Graduate What Is the Shape of a Free Electron Wave?
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Graduate Is the Commutation Relation for Angular Operators in Hilbert Space Valid?
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Graduate What is the relationship between matter and waves in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Is the Matrix Representation of a Unitary Operator Always a Unitary Matrix?
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Graduate If light were an electromagnetic wave
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Graduate Short distance divergences in thermal states
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Graduate Question on step potentials and schrodingers equatio
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Graduate Is the generation of one electron at a time probabilistic or deterministic ?
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Graduate Optical Theorem: Understanding Conservation of Particles & Probability
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Graduate Time Evolution Operator & Classical Hamiltonian: Relating the Two
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Graduate Jahn-teller theorem and the CH_4 molecule
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Graduate Normal coordinate substitutions with periodic boundary conditions
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Graduate Quantum Physics and Parallel Universes and your mind
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Graduate Experimentally Verifying Photon Spin: Beyond Stern-Gerlach
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Graduate Duality of Electron: Mass, Charge and Wave Mechanics
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Graduate Is relativity the ultimate explanation for all uncertainties in physics?
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Graduate Photons and the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Quantum Mechianics and Telecommunications Engineering?
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Graduate First Energy Level Meaning: What Does It Mean?
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Graduate From Wave to Ket: Transform State Vector
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Graduate Welcome All: Unravelling the Mysteries of Photons
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Graduate Spontaneous parametric down-conversion practicalities
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Graduate How Do You Compute Derivatives in Dirac Notation with Mathematica?
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Graduate How Close Are We to Reaching the Landau Pole in QED?
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Graduate Is there an intermediate 'particle' to pair production?
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Undergrad What is Touching: Examining the Microscopic Level
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Graduate Understanding the Equation 2.14 and its Application in Srednicki's Theory
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Graduate Collapse of Pauli exclusion principle
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Graduate Why do subatomic particles act the way they are?
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Graduate How does the substitution in equations 3.2.4 and 3.2.5 work?
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Graduate How is Hardy's Paradox resolved in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Combining Hamiltonians for a Two-Particle System
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Graduate Angular momentum and hydrogens atom
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Graduate Some confusion about Ballentine Sec 3.3 Generators of Gallilei Groups
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High School Atomic Energy Levels: Discrete vs Continuous
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Undergrad Photon Generation Questions and Answers
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Graduate What is a 'magnetic substate'? (Magnetic-Optical Traps)
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Graduate Is Quantum Physics the theory of everything if
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Graduate Is the concept of degeneracy in quantum states always applicable?
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Graduate Quantum mechanical resistivity
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Graduate Consider parity then it is no longer enough to talk about two spinors
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Graduate Annihilation - matter/antimatter
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Graduate Research on Black Hole Questions: Membranes vs Non-String Universe
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Graduate How Do Holes and Time Influence Calabi-Yau Manifolds in String Theory?
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Graduate Point Particles vs. String Theory
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Graduate What Is the True Nature of Vacuum Space in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Tried, True, Wildly Successful, and Wrong?
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Graduate Understanding Dirac Notation: A Simplified Explanation for Scientists
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Graduate How Do Gravitons and Photons Compare in Quantum Theory?
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Graduate How Does the Infinite Potential Well Illustrate the Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Does Electron Superposition Eliminate Angular Momentum?
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Graduate Superpositons of a uranium atom
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation Research: Particles & Distances
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