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Graduate Why do photons have no rest mass and cannot have a charge?

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Graduate Difficulties in Canonical Quantization and Tensor Relations in Elementary QFT

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Graduate What Is the Schwarz-Hora Effect and Its Implications on Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate A mental picture of entanglement?

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Graduate Do Weyl Spinors Have Well-Defined Helicities Across Different Masses?

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Graduate Normalization of Wave-Function

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Graduate Is the principal objection to decoherence thermodynamical?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle in classical mechanics boundary

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Graduate What is the Derivation of the Schrodinger Equation for Matter?

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Graduate Quantum Kinetic Theory by M. Bonitz: Traces over Commutators

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Graduate Can BECs Show Us Decoherence in "Slow Motion"?

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Graduate Quantization of Orbits: Explained

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Graduate How Are Allowed Wave Vectors Calculated in Carbon Nanotubes?

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Undergrad Weak and strong interaction are attactive or repulsive force?

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Graduate Basic question on a vector superfield

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Graduate Black hole laser or condensate?

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Graduate Super-position / Duality Physically Real?

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Graduate The Significance of Decoherence in the Quantum-to-Classical Transition

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Graduate Beta Function for QED: 20/9 or 8/3?

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Graduate Understanding Counterterms: Demystifying Srednicki's Equation 9.25

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Graduate Total angular momentum of N identical bosons

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Graduate Software to calculate simple commutator relation ?

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Graduate What are Jacobi coordinates, and why are they useful?

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Graduate Fourier Transforms, Momentum and Position

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Graduate Time evolution of an entangled state

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Graduate Does Quantum Entanglement Necessitate Faster-Than-Light Communication?

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Graduate Divergent tree level Feynman diagrams?

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Graduate What operators can we measure directly?

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Graduate Quantum Foam vs Zero Point Energy

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Undergrad Fourier transform spectroscopy

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Graduate Force Carriers, Mass, and Speed

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Graduate Reason for Fourier transform convention in QM?

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Graduate Laser Broadening: Impact on Wavelengths

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Graduate Question about scattering and emission

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Graduate Number say about the spin of a particle?

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Graduate Status of Teleportation Research?

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Graduate Yet another question about the double slits

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Graduate Wave or Particle: Unraveling the Mystery of Electrons

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Graduate The CRT and Electron Superposition

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Graduate Lorentz Transformation and Creation Operators

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Undergrad Question about properties of light?

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Graduate What Defines the Weak Field Regime in the Zeeman Effect?

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Graduate Renormalizable quantum field theories

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Graduate Is the path integral well defined

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Graduate Energy of electron and its effective mass

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Graduate Time is interconnected with mass, right?

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Graduate No Permanent Dipole Moment in Two-Level System w/External Field

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Undergrad Pair Production and Annihilation

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Graduate The role of complex conjugation in QM

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Graduate Einstein's 'Spooky Physics' Gets More Entangled

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Graduate Can Matter and Energy Interchangeably?

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Graduate Any benefits of uncertaintity?

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Graduate Mermin on Spooky action at a distance

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Graduate Computing P$^{\mu}$ with Stress Energy Tensor

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Graduate Geneva University speed of entanglement results

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Graduate Convergence of vacuum state of Klein Gordon field in a box

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Graduate Probability that energy level is occupied

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Graduate Questions over Quantum Physics

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Graduate Calculating Length of Closed Orbits: Gutzwiller Formula & Hamiltonian Systems"

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Graduate Expressing the Klein Gordon Hamiltonian in terms of ladder operators

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Graduate FTL communication: might QM entanglement trump relativity?

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Graduate Colapse of the Wave Funcion and the Schroedinger Equation

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Graduate Normalized function and minimum energy

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Graduate Another question about tensor derivatives

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Graduate Alternative formalization of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Potential Energies: Same Value, Different Minima?

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Graduate Atom Stability and harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Degenerate perturbation theory question

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Graduate Validity of Mathematical Proof of Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate When is a propagator on shell?

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Graduate Generalizing entanglement: Aren't all quantum events superluminal?

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Graduate Compton effect does the electron radiate?

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Graduate What Devices and Barriers are Used in Quantum Tunneling Experiments?

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Graduate No-communication theorem question

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Graduate Buckyball Interference, classical/quantum border?

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Graduate Solving a differential equation similar to Legendre

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Graduate Angular momentum in whole numbers

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Undergrad Photoelectric efffect question

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Undergrad Non-Moving Photon: Are They Detectable?

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Graduate How does the quantum model justify accelerating electrons not losing energy?

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Graduate Polynomial wavefunction - basic math qu.

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Graduate Explanation of the mass and charge of the proton

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Is Spin Truly Random?

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High School What Are Muons and Their Mysteries in the Alps?

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Graduate Feynman's double-slit experiment

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Graduate Random walks and conservation laws in average

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Graduate Does Time Affect Nucleus and Electron Interactions?

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Graduate Idea for light speed or possibly faster than light speed travel?

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Graduate Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate What Are the Limits of Quantum Tunneling Theory?

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Graduate Does a single photon have a wavelength?

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Graduate Solitons and Heisenberg uncertainty

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Undergrad Classical Explanation for Photoelectric Effect

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Graduate Quantum tunneling and energy conservation

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Graduate From Noether's Theorem to Stress-Energy Tensor

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Graduate How can I use determinants to find energy levels in a finite square potential?

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Undergrad Calculate Speed of Electron Using Power Supply & Charge Info

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High School What tool do they use to look at newtrons protons and electrons?

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Graduate Delayed choice quantum eraser experiment

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Graduate Uncertainty principle and Wave-particle duality

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