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Undergrad Shankar Quantum Mechanics, Chapter 5, Page 160-161

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High School What does Stephen Hawking mean by the plus-minus term in black holes?

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Undergrad Is there any physical significance to Wave Amplitude?

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Undergrad After entanglement swapping, how can we verify the new entanglement?

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Undergrad What is CV Bell State Measurement and How Does Entanglement Swapping Work?

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Undergrad Is there a smallest wavetrain corresponding with photons?

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Undergrad Green's function for massive photon theory

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Undergrad Do photon and EM wave velocities differ in a medium?

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High School Theory about gravitons and space warping

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Undergrad The time evolution of a Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Discrete symmetries and conserved quantities

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Undergrad Quantum Entanglement with Public Variables

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Undergrad Coherent state evolution - nonlinear Hamiltonian

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Graduate Entanglement Witnesses close to GHZ states

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Undergrad The spin of quarks in an H dibaryon

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Insights What is the Anatomy of Compton Scattering?

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Undergrad Some questions about the photoelectric experiment

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Undergrad Why does a heated solid produce continuous spectrum instead of line spectrum?

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Undergrad Change of variables in the Density of States function

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Undergrad How stimulated emission and population inversion work together in lasers

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Undergrad What does motion mean in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Precession of spin in a magnetic field

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Undergrad Why is a laser's beam parallel?

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Undergrad On the Rydberg Constant and the Emission Lines

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Undergrad Can the Exact Boltzmann Distribution Yield Specific Quantum State Populations?

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Graduate Lorenz gauge in massive vector fields and degrees of freedom

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Undergrad Quantum mechanics supports solipsism?

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Undergrad 100 boxes of Length L, an application of the famous Particle in A Box

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High School Modern Physics: Charge of Discovered Particles

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Undergrad To measure a Planck length would require a black-hole photon?

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Undergrad Is there an uncertainty between amplitude and phase in an EM wave?

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Undergrad How does this experimental result show photon emission?

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High School How is the measurement done for the double slit experiment?

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Undergrad Trying to get a physical understanding of a Fermi gas

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High School Understanding Single Photon Detection in the Double-Slit Experiment

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Undergrad Quantities in the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle

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Graduate Are all quantum computers feedforward networks?

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Undergrad What stands for probability in QFT?

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Undergrad Excited system in a harmonic potential

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High School Photon detection methods -- do they always involve displacing an electron?

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Graduate First Course in Graduate Quantum Mechanics Resources

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Undergrad Matrix Notation for potential in Schrodinger Equation

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Undergrad The derivative of the complex conjugate of the wave function

  • Tony Hau
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Graduate Thought experiment in relativistic quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Can we quantize a static EM field?

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Undergrad Does mean velocity equal group velocity of wave packets in QM?

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High School Double slit question - how far apart can the slits be?

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Graduate Density Operators, Trace and Partial Trace

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Undergrad Classical equivalent of scalar free field in QFT

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Undergrad What does this tricky quantum mechanics equation mean?

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Graduate Dirac Notation: Why is order reversed in ket expasion?

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Graduate Quantum CSP Algorithm for Aircraft Recovery Problem

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Undergrad Does the Wigner-Eckart theorem require good quantum numbers?

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Graduate Conditional phase shift for Grover's algorithm

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High School How to construct 4 in+out Feynman diagram from 3 Feynman diagram?

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Undergrad How to interpret integration by parts

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High School Questions about double slit experiments

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Undergrad Number of photons in an arbitrary EM field

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High School Why do we know all photons have same speed as the speed of light?

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Undergrad What is difference between EM wave and EM field?

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Undergrad Equivalence of these quantum circuits

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Undergrad Black holes -- Can you chill the particles of a black hole?

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Graduate Dispersion of the wave packet over time

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Graduate Where Can I Find the Proof of Asymptotically Helical Trajectory in a Lattice?

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Undergrad A statement in a superposition of being true and false?

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Undergrad Are all processes CPT symmetric like measurement, stimulated emission?

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High School U.Delft Quantum Results - Is the explanation parsimonious?

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Graduate Interface between Biological Physics and Quantum Physics

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Graduate Conditional time evolution entropy and the experimenter?

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Undergrad "Packing of energy" question related to the ultraviolet catastrophe

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Undergrad Quantum Computing "Not" Operation - Mathematics Steps For Deriving It

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High School Electron gun alignment and decoherence in double slit experiment

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Graduate Hamiltonian commutes with a parity operator -- What does that mean?

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High School Particles with small Wavelengths passing through huge slits?

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Graduate Understanding Counter Term Renormalization in Quantum Field Theory

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Undergrad Why is Planck's constant not called Wien's constant?

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Undergrad Realizing a Quantum Mechanical Watch-Stop

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Graduate Quantum tomography: Where does the magic happen?

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Graduate Fock spaces with indefinite metric in QFT and string theory

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Graduate What is a good basis for coupled modes in a resonator?

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Graduate Feynman solution for the radial wave function of the hydrogen atom

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Graduate Path Integrals in Wolfram Mathematica

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Graduate Position is no more an operator in QFT

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Undergrad Matrix construction for spinors

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Undergrad Parity Eigenstates: X Basis Explanation

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Graduate Restricted Boltzmann machine for Quantum state tomography

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Undergrad Can a State with Nonmeasurable Local Properties be Described by Quantum Rules?

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Undergrad Indistinguishable particles in separate boxes

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High School Fermions, Pauli and antisymmetry

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High School Does the wave function change from the viewpoint of the photon?

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Undergrad Why does "control" mean "coherency" in Wigner's friend paradox?

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Graduate Wavefunction of the Universe considering all possible boundaries?

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Undergrad Bell measurement of distant particles

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High School Do Photons Decay or Have a Half-Life?

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High School Gravitational signature of a photon in a double slit experiment

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Undergrad Are hydrogen atom energy levels the energies of the electron or the atom?

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Undergrad Justification of a trick in solving PDEs arising in Physics

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Undergrad Can the Born rule be understood as time evolution forwards and backwards?

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Undergrad Why is it that when anti-matter and matter meet they produce energy?

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High School Is a photon an excitation of the electromagnetic field?

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