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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Graduate How fundamental is inverse square law?
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Graduate Physicist's Double Slit Experiment: How is it Possible?
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Graduate The Clebsch-Gordan Theorem: Proving the Symmetric Spinor Tensors as IRR of SU(2)
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's Paradox: The Answer Revealed
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Undergrad How to picture atomic/electron orbitals
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Graduate Four or Five fundamental forces
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Graduate [Q]Queation about Photon and Electric discharge.
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Graduate Can Photon Wave Properties Be Misunderstood in the Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Quantum Experiment: Results & Observer Impact?
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Undergrad Hardy's Paradox: Explained in Plain Terms
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Graduate Second-Order Field Strength Energy Spectrum of Spherical Shell
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Graduate Discrete Analog of Schrodinger Equation?
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Graduate Connection between the SU(2) group for the spin 1/2
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Graduate Question about number operator and density operator
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Graduate Youngs slits in the particle frame
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Graduate Are Photons and Electrons Indistinguishable Based on Their Wavefunction Alone?
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Graduate The Line That Seperates QM and Relativity?
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Graduate Double slit and quater wave plates
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Graduate What do these states mean physically?
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Graduate When can the time-independent Schrodinger be used?
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Graduate Time-varying expectation values
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Graduate Thought Experiment Involving Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Klein gordan equation in electromagnetic potential
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Graduate Feshbach Resonance: Links, Articles, Books for Applications
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Graduate Forces unified at the time of the big bang
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Graduate Entanglement: I am confused as to what actually happens in this process
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Graduate Partial quantum / partial classical?
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Graduate The effect of wavefunction collapse on spacetime?
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Graduate Effect of changes in Stern-Gerlach fields
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Graduate Wave Interference and the Double-Slit Experiment
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation for a central 2D potential
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Graduate Why is this content nonsensical?
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Undergrad What Is YUKAWA Potential? Explained for Everyone
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Graduate Derivative Terms of Effective Action
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Graduate Created from quantum mechanics
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Graduate Why Is Quantum Contact Conductance Maximized at 2*q^2/h Even Without Scattering?
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Graduate What is the Significance of the Planck Length-to-Mass Ratio in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Spinors and spatial coordinates
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory Observables: Distinguishing Two Types in Free Fields
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Graduate Question About Complex Scalar Field: Advantages/Disadvantages?
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Graduate Does Measuring One Entangled Electron Affect the Other?
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Graduate Is the ground state of a negative potential always even?
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Undergrad Why is the operator <p> considered real in calculus?
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Graduate Time ind. S.E., qualitative solution
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Graduate Schrodinger equation from commuation relations
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Graduate Numerially integrate the radial schrodinger equation
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Graduate Question about Renormalization Group Equation
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Graduate Exponent of disconnected Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Does the Quantum Eraser Experiment Truly Erase Information or Alter Causality?
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Graduate Lengendre Polynomials of cos(theta)
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Graduate How Many Parallel Worlds Are There?
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Graduate Understanding SU(N) Representations and Subgroups
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Graduate Linear Superposition of Hamiltonians
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Graduate What Are the Parity Requirements for a Three-Fermion System?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics accurately explain all atomic transitions?
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Graduate Quantum Collapse: Unravelling the Mechanics
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Graduate Gravity across Multiple Dimensions
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Graduate Quantizing Fields: Establishing Commutation Relations
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Graduate Is this a valid example of macroscopic quantum behavior?
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Graduate Ehrenfest Theorem: Significance & Relation to Space-Time
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High School What is virtual energy level ?
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Graduate Photon spin - where is the missing state?
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Graduate Bound states and Current density
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High School Unravelling the Mystery of the Neutron
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Graduate Spin Selection Rule: Russell-Saunders vs. JJ Coupling
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Graduate Is There a Time Order Behind Quantum Entanglement According to Antoine Suarez?
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Graduate Something to do with space being time 0.o
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Graduate Understanding Particle Superposition in the Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Radioactive decay and relativity
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Graduate Applications of Schrodingers Equation
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Undergrad Explain Bell's Inequality & Test in Basic Terms
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Graduate Quantum Computors: Learn How They Work & Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Proving the Renormalization of Phi^4 Theory: A Challenge for Mr. Fogg
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Graduate Double slit photon deflection
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Graduate What is spin? i have a vague idea but im not very sure about it
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Graduate Discovering Unknown Gases: Using Quantum Numbers for Spectrum Analysis
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Graduate Does a c-not gate conserve angular momentum?
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Undergrad If a wavefunction can only collapse onto a few eigenstates
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation and Fusion
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Graduate Advice needed for science project.
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Graduate Early Development of Matrix Mechanics: Frequencies, Intensities & Electrons
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Graduate How to compute Hydrogen Inner Products <n,l+1,m+1|n,l-1,m+1>?
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Undergrad Video Lectures on Statistical Physics and Quantum Physics
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Graduate Light in electrostatic potential
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Undergrad Electron vs Photon: The Photoelectric Effect Explained
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Graduate What's the significance of using a Gaussian wave packet in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Speciality of position momentum representation
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Undergrad Fields: What Are They Made Of?
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Graduate Spinor index notation craziness
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Graduate How Do Particles Form Atoms in Light of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Why do particles act like waves
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Graduate What Are the Experimental Foundations of Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Can Quantum Mechanics Explain Biology?
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Graduate How does Classical Determinism Result from QM?
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Graduate Proving Hermition Matrix Real & Eigenvalues/Eigenspinors
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Graduate Gaseous system: Meaning of this integral eq.
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Graduate Is the Time Derivative Term in the Schrodinger Equation Hermitian?
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Graduate What Is Entanglement Beyond Bell's Photon Experiment?
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