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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 How does a single electron fill all orbital shells in a hydrogen atom?

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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 Harmonic oscillator integral: proving d²x/dt² · dx/dt = ½d(dx/dt)²/dt

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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 Interpreting k.p 8 band model output for type II quantum wells

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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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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 Where is an electron while jumping between energy levels?

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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 Counterterms and vertices in Srednicki's equation 9.25

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Graduate Total angular momentum of N identical spin-1 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 Is spontaneous emission by a photoexcited atom a scattering process?

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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 Electron double slit with continuous lamp illumination

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Graduate Why do electrons behave as both waves and particles?

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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 Wave and particle properties of light and frequency-energy relationship

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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 Can quantum uncertainty be useful in physics?

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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 How do you find the length of closed orbits in the Gutzwiller formula?

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Graduate Expressing the Klein Gordon Hamiltonian in terms of ladder operators

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Graduate Can entanglement enable FTL communication despite 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 Partial derivative of electromagnetic field tensor with respect to time 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 What are good eigenstates in degenerate perturbation theory?

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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 Can a non-moving photon be detected?

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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 Muon detector in the Alps from Discovery's Time show

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