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Graduate Forces unified at the time of the big bang

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Graduate Does quantum teleportation destroy the original particle?

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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 Are time and space created from quantum fields?

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Undergrad What is the Yukawa potential and what does it represent?

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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 Measuring field observables versus projection operators in quantum optics

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Graduate Complex scalar fields and antiparticles in quantization

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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 Beta function and anomalous dimension in λφ² theory

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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 Why does the wavefunction collapse during measurement?

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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 What is the physical significance of Ehrenfest's theorem?

  • kehler
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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 What is the role of the neutron in atomic structure?

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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 Bell's inequality and how it's tested

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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 Identifying unknown gas from emission spectrum using quantum numbers

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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 How did Heisenberg derive position and momentum from spectral matrices?

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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 What happens to the metal atom after the photoelectric effect?

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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 What are quantum fields 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?

  • Karl G.
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Graduate Proving a Hermitian matrix has real eigenvalues and orthogonal 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?

  • Karl G.
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Graduate Force Carriers - How do they work?

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Graduate Can the Fine Structure Constant Be Calculated from First Principles?

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Graduate Does the particle state matter if we cannot observe it?

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Graduate Classical limit of the path integral

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Undergrad How Can We Prove E=hf Using Basic Physics Knowledge?

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Undergrad Light Wavelength increases over a distance

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Graduate Can the Future Influence the Past in Quantum Measurements?

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Graduate Understand Wavefunction - Quantum Mechanics Help Needed

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Graduate Prove zero point energy without calculation?

  • Gerenuk
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Graduate Should we think a free particle as a particle in an infinitely big box?

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Graduate Integration on the way to Generating Functional for the free Dirac Field

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Graduate Is the wave/particle duality of electrons what causes vibrations/sounds?

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Undergrad What is the reduced mass effect on recombination lines?

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Graduate Measurement/observation in QM

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Graduate Finding the Mystery gas questions

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Graduate Deriving the Dirac equation from an action principle

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Graduate How do evanescent waves carry energy in resonant coupling?

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Graduate How does a detector at one slit destroy interference in double slit experiment?

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Graduate Dirac Equation for a moving square potential well

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Graduate Effect of the raising operator on an l=1 m=1 state

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Graduate Can electrons violate Hund's rule in excited states?

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Graduate Probability of simultaneous measurements of momentum and position

  • Karl G.
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Graduate What happen to a single photon entering a PBS.

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Graduate What is the Significance of the Overall Phase in Quantum Mechanics?

  • KarateMan
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Graduate Why Normalization Factors in Fourier Transform Pairs?

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Graduate Speed of Light: Does a Photon Move Faster or Slower?

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