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Undergrad Question about discussions around quantum interpretations
Graduate Time Reversal and initial conditions
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Undergrad Choice of basis in BB84 protocol
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Undergrad Time dependent Hamiltonian and energy
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Undergrad I want to understand how the transmission coefficient is obtained
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Undergrad Postulate of only time dependence on |ψ⟩
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Undergrad When is Â(r) Ψ(r) = ⟨r | Â | Ψ⟩?
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Undergrad A short attenuated laser pulse, LIGO, and a fast detector
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Undergrad Using a single particle as quantum computer
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High School Bell's Inequalities and the issue of non-locality
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Undergrad Mean values of observables
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Graduate Bell's inequality and experiment
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Undergrad States and observables in quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Passing information faster than speed of light
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Undergrad Energy and momentum in quantum mechanics
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High School Double-slit with movable detector screen
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Undergrad QED replacing photon field with current in 3-point function
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Undergrad Expansion of position kets in terms of angular momentum
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High School About the nature of the Newtonian gravitational formula
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Graduate Numerical implementation of creation and annhilation operators in the SSH model
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Undergrad Particle field strength and sensitivity
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Graduate 2nd Quantization states
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Undergrad Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the canonical momentum operator
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High School Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle question
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Graduate Coleman: "Spin is a concept that applies only to particles with mass"
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Undergrad More double slit experiment questions
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Undergrad Matrix element involving raising/lowering operators
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High School Has a Double Slit Experiment Been Conducted in a Vacuum Tube?
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Undergrad Confused about a matrix element
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Undergrad Position operator explicit form
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Undergrad Commutation of position operators in three dimensions
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Undergrad Qubit two-state quantum system
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Undergrad Another Interferometry question please
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Undergrad Can Topological Protection Extend the Lifetime of a Qubit?
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Undergrad Relation between operators and their variables' signs
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High School Can a filter based on the photoelectric effect reduce the noise floor?
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Undergrad Incomprehension of a simple interferometer?
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Undergrad Double-dark Slit Interference Pattern?
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Undergrad What kind of integration is Berezin integration?
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High School The Story of Least Action and the Double Slit
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Undergrad Please help me understand the double slit experiment and conclusion
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Undergrad Understanding the proof of Goldstone theorem
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Undergrad Quick question regarding creation/annihilation operators
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High School Are the electron and neutrino that are emitted in a beta decay entangled?
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Undergrad Homemade double slit experiment
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Undergrad Have You Heard of the SEW Experiment? Thoughts?
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Graduate Does x affect the value of [a^2,(a^†)^2×e^2ikx]
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Undergrad Clarifying the Superposition Principle
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Undergrad The physical components in the electron double slit experiment
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High School How does light have energy to follow infinite paths?
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High School The arrow of time (again)
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High School Yet another double slit thought experiment...
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High School Probability function for the position of a static electron under no potential
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High School Photoelectric phenomenum can only be proved as a particle effect?
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Undergrad Femto-photography Michelson Morley Interferometer thought experiment
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High School Would Laplace's Demon work?
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Undergrad Quantum fields and "mediator" particles
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High School Why is gravity a weak force at the atomic scale?
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High School Electron absorbs photon, but what happens to the photon?
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Undergrad Entropic Tension Cosmology (ETC) 1.0
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Undergrad What Are the Key Questions and Challenges in Understanding Quantum Gravity?
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High School Quantum Field Theory As Simple As Possible
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Undergrad Far off resonant Rabi oscillations in a 2 level system
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Undergrad Different expressions about time reversal and confusion
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Undergrad Is the result of an operator acting on a ket vector always a ket？
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment: Measurement versus Observation
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Undergrad Deriving the time-dependent wave equation from Energy eigenfunctions
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Undergrad How Much Pressure To Cause Matter To Degenerate?
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Undergrad Particle in Infinite Square Well
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Undergrad Particle in a potential well
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Undergrad Feynman's summing arrows for photon amplitudes applied to LIGO?
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Undergrad Laws of thermodynamics and their application to quantum physics
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Undergrad Explanation of the Bohr postulates' existence
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Undergrad Can two photons combine to give a local field with spin 2?
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Undergrad Physical Meaning of Atomic Oscillations
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Graduate Pauli spin matrices
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Undergrad The Pauli-Lubanski vector and angular momentum
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Undergrad Chunks of action smaller than Planck's constant
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Undergrad What effect do gravitons have on electrons?
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Graduate Collapse of the electron wave function due to inelastic interactions
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Undergrad Question regarding quantum mechanics from relativity perspective
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Undergrad Normalisation Constant In Wavefunction
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Graduate Has Hilbert transform ever been used in Quantum Theory?
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Undergrad What do the wave functions of real particles look like?
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Undergrad Uniqueness of quantum numbers
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Undergrad Time dependent Schrödinger equation - Separable Solutions
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Undergrad Is Newton the founder of quantum gravitation?
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Undergrad Lower energy levels with Dirac/Pauli theory than Schroedinger theory?
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Undergrad Amount of electrons in nuclei
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Undergrad System of bosons
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Undergrad Exchange symmetry of two particles on a sphere
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Undergrad The probability density of a wave function due to length contraction
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Undergrad 3 photon transfer probability
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Undergrad Motivating the form of a bra vector
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Undergrad How is superposition demonstrated?
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Undergrad Physics Today article collection
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High School Quantum wavelength of gravity
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Graduate Questions about changing frame in QM and rotating wave approximation
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Undergrad Quantum field in curved space-time
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High School Interference pattern inferencing
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Undergrad Macroscopic object wave function
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