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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Graduate Fourier transform of a wave equation
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Graduate The Energy Levels of a Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Why Is the Hermiticity of the Density Operator Important in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the relationship between temperature and emissive power for a gas?
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Graduate Why is the sum over all connected diagrams with a single source in QFT zero?
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Graduate Isn't classical spin an instance of spin 1?
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Graduate Spin 360 rotation - experiment
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Graduate Could Electrons Have an Internal Structure Beyond Fundamental Particles?
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Graduate Is causality challenged by quantum theory's reliance on indeterminacy?
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Graduate How Does Information Influence Quantum Particle Indistinguishability?
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Graduate Position and momentum operators in quantum field theory
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Graduate Quantum Structures: From Theory to Practical Applications
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Undergrad What Causes an Atom to be Unstable and More Prone to Radioactive Decay?
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Undergrad What Is the Casimir Effect?
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Graduate Questions about variations on Double Slit experiment
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Graduate Pertubation and density matrix
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Undergrad How to make light act like a particle?
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Undergrad Ionisation and the Photoelectrical Effect
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Graduate Hydrogen on one side, Helium on the other, and nothing in between ?
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Undergrad What CAUSES black cody radiation?
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Graduate What is the definition of a momentum *measurement*?
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High School Reflecting photons off a surface
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Graduate How Is the Thickness of a Quantum Well Determined?
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Graduate Does a Free Particle in Quantum Mechanics Have Constant Energy?
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Graduate Most accurate form of maxwell equations?
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Graduate Spontaneous Symmetry breaking,phase factor
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Graduate Perpendicularity of quantuum states
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Graduate Understanding X Quantum Gate: Act on |i> State?
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Graduate Revisiting the Born Rule: Implications for Cosmology
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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement Just Correlation or a Real Physical Process?
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Graduate Feynman diagram: incoming and outgoing particles
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Graduate Waves - bound and unbound states
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Graduate Four momentum vector from energy-momentum-tensor
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Graduate Cassimir effect on a grand scale
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Graduate Is there a paradox involving the Dirac equation and commutation with time?
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Graduate How does the Schrödinger equation lead to the QM theory of measurement?
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Graduate Doubting the Probabilistic Future: Can You Prove Me Wrong?
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High School Can energy be lost from a Photon?
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Graduate Black body radiation: can you help me understand it (better)?
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Graduate Can Virtual Particles in the Vacuum be Directly Detected?
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Graduate Yes, that helps clarify things. Thank you for the explanation.
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Graduate QM & Hardy's Paradox: Bohm, Copenhagen, MWI
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Graduate Faster-than-light communication
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Graduate Synthesis between Quantum Chaos and QFT.
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Undergrad How does the Electron get knocked off by a photon
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Graduate What Is the Casimir Effect and Its Relation to Vacuum Energy?
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Graduate Solution gross pitaevskii equation
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Graduate Angular Momentum & Plank's Constant
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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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