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Graduate Ehrenfest theorem and Heisenberg quantum mechanics

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Graduate Physics of Electron Probability Clouds

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Can a simple wooden stick be used to send instant messages across space?

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Graduate Eliminating the coincidence counter

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Graduate Constructing Unitary Matrices for Rotations in Hilbert Space

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Graduate Can Momentum be Calculated Without Measuring Position in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Relativistic quantum field theory:antiparticles

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Undergrad Compton scattering contributes to color in any way?

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Graduate Forced Harmonic Oscillator with Path Integral

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Graduate Negative energy/imaginary momentum

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Graduate Magnetic flux quanta in ground state hydrogen

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Graduate Is Quantum Physics All About Total Randomness?

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Graduate How do you determine that a particle is/was entangled?

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Graduate Shrodinger Equation, where did it come from?

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Graduate Schrodinger's Eqn: Harnessing Extra Dimensions?

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Graduate Partial Measurement / Teleportation

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Graduate Is a photon's wavelength relative to the velocity of its source?

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Graduate What is the purpose of trace in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain Particle Behavior in Video Games?

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Graduate Interference seen in a member of an entangled pair

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Graduate What is the Interpretation of the Inverse Property of a Delta Function in QM?

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Graduate About distinguishable and indistinguishable

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Undergrad How Do Electrons Behave Within an Atom?

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Graduate Question About Calculation in Maggiore's Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate How is cosine squared used in measuring particle properties?

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Graduate Experiment involving photoelectric effect

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Undergrad How Does a Half-Silvered Lens Affect the Young's Two Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Understanding Mixed vs Pure States in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Simple double slit question

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Is Observation Equipment Interfering?

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Graduate Wavelength or amplitude < a Planick length?

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Graduate 2-slit experiment for electron

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Graduate Completeness of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Matrix representing projection operators

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Graduate Are force carrier particles instantaneous like gravity in relativity?

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Graduate Why does the system has lower energy if its wave function is symmetric?

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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect - Electrons

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Graduate Hydrogen atom ground state with zero orbital angular moment question.

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Graduate How Does a Smaller Wavelength Photon Resolve Smaller Distances?

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Graduate Angular frequency of a matter patter

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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Erasers

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Graduate Researching Neutron Imaging: Is Imaging a Single Molecule Possible?

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Graduate Outer product problem of derac notation

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Graduate Momentum in Quantum Mechanics: Defining, Measuring, & Interpreting

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Graduate Feynman rules for vector bosons

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Graduate Another annoying double slit question

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Graduate Quantum Computation: 2 Interesting Qs

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Graduate How to deal with index in the problem of thermal field?

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Graduate Req: A conceptual QFT example

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Graduate The surprisingly simple linear potential solution

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Graduate Rayleigh scattering vs raman scattering

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Graduate Quantum randomness vs. dice randomness

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Undergrad What is the relationship between electron movement and rest mass?

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Graduate Degenerate time indep. perturbation theory

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Graduate Spinor Boosts: Weinberg's QFT Book Insights on Rotation and Momentum Effects

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Graduate What Are the Implications of Non-Local Entanglement in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Is the LHC on the verge of discovering a new dimension?

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Undergrad Atomic Decay: Charged Element After Alpha Helium Release?

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Graduate West vs East: Converting Results

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Graduate Probability Distribution for Time of Measurement?

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Graduate Please explain this Formalism in Linear Reponse Theory.

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Graduate Basic-Questions about Quantum terms

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Graduate Understanding Binding Energy: The Hidden Mass Conversion Process

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Graduate Zero point energy of hydrogen atom

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Non-Local or Can Local Models Explain the Universe?

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Graduate Could All Electrons Be Just One Electron Traveling Through Time?

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Graduate Understanding of renormalization

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Graduate Klein-Gordon linear potential solution

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Theory and Physics: Explained in Simple Terms

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Graduate Construction of SU(3) multipletts, implication of Gell-Mann-Nishijima

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Graduate Can Charge and Mass Clouds Explain the Behavior of Particles in an Atom?

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Graduate Quantum superpositions of mixed states.

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Graduate Magnetic moment of a deutron is 0.8574 u_n

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Graduate What is a the superstring field?

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Graduate Spherical symmetry implies zero angular momentum?

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High School Double Slit Experiment: Does Slit Thickness Matter?

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Graduate The collapse of one wave function is the creation of another

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Graduate What contradictions remain between SR and QM?

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Graduate Quantum entanglement and information

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Graduate Can anyone explain the physical meaning of spin in QM?

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Graduate Cramer's Backward Causality Experiment

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Graduate Shrodinger's Cat Paradox: A Possible Solution

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Graduate Potential Energy Surface in chemical reaction computations

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Graduate Basic treatment of the hydrogen atom through wave mechanics.

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Graduate Are the electrons in TV set wave or particle?

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Graduate Is the EOM for a Lagrangian with a scalar operator always 2D phi = 0?

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Graduate About solving differential equations

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Graduate Experimental evidence for Hydrogen Wave Function?

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Graduate Can the Pauli Exclusion Principle explain the quantization of the nucleus?

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Graduate A way aroung determining which-paths in interference patterns?

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Graduate Space & Particles: What is the Metric?

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Graduate Does quantum physics prove that nothing is completely random?

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Graduate What is Time Ordered Product T(AB) at Equal Times?

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Graduate Please explain what this bra-ket expression means

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Graduate Quatum Fields, Strings, and Parallel Universe

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Graduate Question about naive questions

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Graduate Basis set orthonormality property

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Graduate Basic questions on quantum scattering

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Graduate QED Vertex: Examining the Unexplainable G-Factor

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Graduate Connection between isolated eigenvalues and normalizable eigenstates

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