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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 Lorentz invariant Schrödinger equation with probability 4-current

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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 Speed of electron from cathode ray gun in 10kV field

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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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Graduate Two photons spontaneous emission (2s->1s)

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Graduate Wave packet splitting in tunneling and probability interpretation

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Graduate Can Quantum Computers Alter Gravity?

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Graduate Double Slit Interference Pattern

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Graduate Are photons affected by the strong force? The weak force?

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Graduate Spin orbit coupling/orbital degeneracy

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Graduate Does a single photon have a wavelength?

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Graduate Variation in action for modified EM Field Action

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Undergrad What is the phonon spectrum compared to the electromagnetic spectrum?

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Graduate Relation for Inner Product with States from a Complete Set

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Graduate Quatum Mechanics Explains Black Hole Jets

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Graduate What is the energy of the scattered photon?

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Graduate Understanding the Breakdown of Path Integrals in Peskin

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Graduate Does the EPR Paradox Break the Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Does entanglement survive if one particle is destroyed?

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Graduate Threshold between macroscopic behavior of matter and quantum behavior

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Graduate How can a particle exist with l=0 and s=3/2?

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Undergrad Double slit experiment (one slit closed)

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Graduate Are Dirac Eigenstates Helicity Eigenstates?

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Undergrad Quantum mechanics replacing bohr model

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Graduate Reflection coefficient for a particle above a step potential

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Graduate Classical spin of an electron?

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Graduate Why doesn't every wavefunction seem to be an eigenfunction of the position operator?

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Graduate Is the QM phase of a particle a coincidence in relativistic quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Can plasmons store energy dissipationlessly in superconductors?

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Undergrad What+how makes higher energy photon has shorter in wavelength?

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Graduate I locating quantum entanglement experiments

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Graduate Prerequisites for Learning Lagrangian Formalism in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate How to convert a quantum state into matrix form

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Graduate EPR paradox and wavefunction collapse across reference frames

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Graduate Ohmic contacts vs Schottky barriers in NextNano3 gated nanowires

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Graduate Does the Quantum Eraser Experiment Disprove Local Hidden Variables?

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Graduate What does the L2,3 notation mean for silicon's absorption edge?

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Graduate What is the maximum temporal resolution ever possible?

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Undergrad Can waves from a particle source hit the wall between the slits?

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Graduate What are the problem We have in Quantum process

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Undergrad Attraction and repulsion of e- and p+

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Graduate What Does Kenneth W. Ford Mean by More Energetic Particles in The Quantum World?

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Graduate What is the significance of the Dirac equation in understanding antimatter?

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Undergrad Difference between the Dirac delta function and Kronecker delta

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Graduate Understanding Continuous Space, Spectra, and Planck Units in Quantum Spacetime

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Graduate Eulers equation, i think? leonard suskin

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Graduate Quantum friction due to vacuum energy

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Graduate The Pauli-Lubanski vector for massless particles

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Graduate Is there any way to use quantum teleportation

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Graduate BM/dBB and Entanglement, Non-contextuality

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Graduate Expectation value of two annihilation operators

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Graduate Zeemen Effet - having trouble understanding

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Graduate What exactly is particle spin and why does it matter?

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Graduate Can Scalar and YM Lagrangians Be Written Using Tetrads and Spin Connection?

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Graduate BM, initial state and information

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Graduate Momentum transferred even though no collapse?

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Graduate Off diagonal element of density matrix

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Graduate Momentum eigenstates particle in box

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Graduate Bohr's Radius: Is His Calculation Right?

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Graduate Does Quantum Energy Measurement Involve Position Measurement?

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Graduate The Quantum Theory Behind Lasers and Masers

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Undergrad Interactions between e-m radiation and matter.

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Graduate Finding eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian involving Sz, Sz^2 and Sx

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Graduate Can quantum entanglement violate the no hair theorem?

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Graduate Schrodinger equation of a free particle in the rectilinear

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Graduate Photon-photon collision confusion

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Graduate Why does normal ordering eliminate tadpole graphs?

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Graduate Polyatomic quantum harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Can electrons be coherently reflected at an angle?

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Graduate Do Sound Waves Come in Quanta?

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Graduate Time operator, or Time eigenfunctions

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Graduate Explanation of Yukawa potential

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Graduate Invariant of a helicoid, like an electron but not quite.

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Undergrad Is Electron Spin Change Possible?

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Undergrad Why do spectral lines only appear as a line?

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Graduate Peskin and Schroeder p. 20-21

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Graduate Do particles know their destination before setting out?

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Graduate Alternative Feynman Diagram Calculation of Axial Anomaly

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Graduate Multi-space instantaneous existence.

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Graduate Changing The Shape of a potential well

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Graduate Transition probability from |0,e⟩ to |1,g⟩ using density operator

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Graduate What Are Vacuum Fluctuations and Their Interaction with the EM Field?

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Graduate Frequency of light calculated from wavefunctions

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Graduate Changing wavelength while preserving geometry?

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Undergrad Negative and Complex Probability?

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Graduate The Hydrogen Atom: An Unique Case of Quantum Numbers

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Undergrad Mirror Reflexion: Does Photon Remain Unchanged?

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Graduate What’s Dispersion got to do with Schroedinger?

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