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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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Graduate Discretization of Lz: Does m Have to Be Integer?

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Graduate Wave Equation in 2 Dimensions - Basic

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Graduate SU(2) in Standard Model and SUSY extensions

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Graduate Massless Particles: Gauge Bosons, Photons & Gluons

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Graduate What is the advantage of the truncated wigner approximation?

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Graduate How do renormalization and dressed particles eliminate self-energy?

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Graduate Uncertainty of a single photon in light scattering question

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High School Do Electrons in Higher Energy Orbitals Move Faster Than Those in Lower Ones?

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Graduate What is an Eikonal Factor in QED and QCD?

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Graduate Polarization Eraser & Entanglement

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Graduate Question about the Klein Gordon Propagator

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Graduate Density Matrix Doubt: Can Coherance Be Zero?

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Undergrad Quantum Chemistry vs Physics: A Student's Dilemma

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Graduate How to solve generalised eigenvalue problems?

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Graduate What is the true nature of vacuum energy in quantum physics?

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Graduate Wanted: quotes that encourage thinking of experiments instead of measurements

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Graduate The significance of commutation

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Graduate Quantum Computing: Find People With Knowledge & Experience

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Graduate Quantum Gravity and time's arrow

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Graduate Is Weak Isospin Conserved in Particle Physics?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity (violations)

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Graduate What is the value of the fine structure constant at Planck energy?

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Graduate Commuting operators => Common eigenfunctions?

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Graduate Entanglement, causality and local realism

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Graduate How does CMBR differ from ether (SR self study - Question from W. Rindler)

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Graduate Transmission function(probability) T(E) in tight binding

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Graduate From Cartan's Theory of Spinors, x1^2 + x2^2 + x3^2 = 0

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Graduate How is Single Photon Polarization Determined in Free Space?

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Graduate What does the eigen equation in quantum mechanics mean physically?

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Graduate Does Multi Path Integral Formulation Violate Special Relativity?

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Graduate Poincare-representation of majorana spinor

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Undergrad Compton effect vs photolectric effect

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Graduate What would be outcome of experiment?

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Graduate Questions on chapter 95 in Srednickis QFT book, Supersymmetry

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Graduate A pair of 2D harmonic oscillators at a point and Dirac eq.

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Graduate Gauge invariance of superpotential

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Graduate Electron Orbit: Exploring Kenneth W. Ford's Quantum World

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Graduate Relation between decay rate (lifetime) and spectral width

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Graduate Understanding Ansatz in Quantum Mechanics: Types and Applications

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Graduate Quantum Mechanical analogy of Newton's third law

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Graduate Question about a harmonic oscillator integral

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Graduate Photoelectric effect and light polarization in Wikipedia

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Graduate Why fundamental quantization of energy is hv?

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Graduate KP 8 Band Model: Exploring Quantum Well Structures

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Graduate Pre-requisites for path integral formulation?

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Graduate Operator in exponential function and generating function

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Graduate Massless representations of the Poincare group

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Graduate Derivation of Uncertainty Princple

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