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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 &amp; 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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