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Graduate Can the Commutator of Charges in QFT be Calculated Using Different Times?
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Graduate Can Electrons Change Spin Sign?
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Graduate Bound State Condition: Definition Explained
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Graduate Understanding Dihydrogen Spin Isomers: An Overview and Explanation
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Graduate Measuring Spectrum of Boxes A & B: Same QM System?
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Graduate The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and velocity
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Graduate Is Quantum Metaphysics Bridging Science and Spirituality Beyond Space and Time?
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Graduate Virtual Particles: Disproving Energy Conservation?
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High School Atomic Vibration Speed: m/s Conversion
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Graduate Wave-particle duality and the photo-electric effect
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Undergrad Property that gives electrons charge.
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Undergrad How an electron can re-radiate an electromagnetic wave
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Graduate What Temperature Yields a 25% Population Probability at 7.00 eV in Copper?
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Graduate Could almost nothing really be something? Fourier series.
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Graduate Missing Terms in 3.11: Investigating Second Order Terms
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Graduate Critical temperature of a superconductor
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment Near The Singularity of a black hole
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Graduate How come there is a particle with zero mass?
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Graduate Can fermion fields in QFT have dimensions other than 3/2 and 1/2?
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Graduate Ladder Operator for Harmonic Oscillator: a|0> = |0>
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Graduate How to operate on product state?
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Graduate How Does Anti-Commutativity Affect Grassmann Number Integration?
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Graduate Is the Multi-Electron Wavefunction Truly Separable?
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Graduate Density Matrix in that DFT bible book
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Graduate Did the Quantum Field Exist at the Beginning of Time and Space?
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Graduate Meaning of Expectation Values for <x^2> and <p^2> in Classical Mechanics
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Graduate Practical examples of superposition?
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Graduate Stationary schrodinger equation (basic problems regarding the basis being used)
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Graduate What Is the Root of Number Operator in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Second quantization and partial traces
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High School What is the difference between quantum mechanics and quantum physics?
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Graduate Schrodinger Equations - wave propagation
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Undergrad Why Does Quantum Mechanics Depend on Probability?
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Graduate Formulation of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Tunneling effect in Supercapacitors ?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Enlighten My Philosophical Ideas?
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Graduate Systems with global phase invariance, 3D string?
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Graduate Understanding Inelastic Collisions in Helium at Room Temperature
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Graduate Studying the Zeeman Effect on Molecules
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Graduate What is the paradox in Planck's Law?
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Undergrad Encryption v.s. quantum computers
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Undergrad Why is gold's color different from other metals?
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Graduate SU(2) Spinor: Is Product of Two Scalar-Type Entity?
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Graduate Why would entangled particles light years away need to be able to cancel?
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Graduate Solving Infinite Square Well: Eigen Functions & Solutions
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Graduate The smallest measurement device
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Undergrad Fourier transform and uncertainity principle
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Graduate Colliding Photons: Matter-Energy Problems & Wavefunction
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Graduate Quantum-classical correspondence?
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator energy = WKB approximate energy why?
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Graduate Solving KET-BRA Notation in OPW Solid State Physics
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Graduate Why do molecules not fall apart under observation?
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Graduate Why do high energies correspond to small distances
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Undergrad Does the Casimir Effect Occur in Space?
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Graduate QFT: Gauge Invariance, Ghosts, Symmetry & Lorentz Invariance
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Graduate Question about Braket notation
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Graduate The Impact of Weak Realism on Bell's Theorem and Bohmian Interpretations
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Graduate Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation -> T(t) solution
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Graduate Introductory books on quantum mechanics
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Graduate Dirac's Coupling to an electromagnetic field and schroedingers
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Graduate Dot product of two pauli matrices
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Graduate Why Do Photons Follow a Sine Wave Pattern Instead of Other Paths?
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Graduate U(1):?:SU(3) 1D:2D:3D harmonic oscillator.
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Graduate 3-d harmonic oscillator and SU(3) - how to imagine it?
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Graduate Energy Conservation in an expanded 1D box
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Graduate Does quantum mechanical definition of momentum require movement ?
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Graduate Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Theory
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Graduate Hydrogen spectrum hyperfine structure
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Graduate Classical counterpart of the quantum |nlm> states
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Graduate What Causes the Expansion of Our Universe?
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Graduate Choice of source photon production in entanglement experiments
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Graduate Does the Hartree Approximation Ignore Electron Interactions?
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Graduate Explaining quantum coherence to a layman
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Graduate Velocity, density, ect. : air : molecules spinor field :?:?
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Graduate What exactly is an oscillator in quantum physical context?
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Graduate Has entanglement in quantum physics been experimentally validated?
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Graduate Question about spacetime quantization
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Graduate Elementary Particles with Zero Spin?
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High School Drawbacks of bohr's model of atom
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Graduate How do you transition from the QED Lagrangian to classical electrodynamics?
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Graduate Why No Decoherence in Double Slit Experiment?
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Undergrad Explaining Hydrogen Atom's Line Spectra: The Rutherford Atomic Model
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Graduate QCD \Lambda Parameter: Definition & Its Role in Non-Perturbative QCD
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High School Need Help Remembering An Equation
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Graduate Wave propagation, +z or -z
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Undergrad Quick Uncertainty in an Average Question
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Graduate EM Field strength and plane waves
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Graduate Partition Function: Energy States & Force Constants
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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty - uncertainty about its meaning
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High School What does it mean that two particles have opposite spins?
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Graduate Laser question (Confinement factor and quantum well thickness)
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Graduate Particles with Spin 1/2: Unraveling the Mystery
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Graduate Von Neumann machine for the Universe
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Graduate Uncertainty with Hesienberg’s Uncertainty
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Graduate SF-Mott insulator transition and Wigner-mermin theorem
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Graduate Where Was the Observer Detector in the Double-Slit Experiments?
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Graduate Do virtual photons Doppler-shift?
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Graduate How do I find the time evolution of a state with an operator in the Hamiltonian?
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Undergrad Why is Fourier Integral Meaningless for f(x)=A*cos(ax)?
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Graduate Observation and Gravity: The Double Slit Experiment with Electrons Explained
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