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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 What determines the metric around solid objects made of particles?

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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 What does <ψn|A|ψm> mean for different wavefunctions?

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Graduate Quatum Fields, Strings, and Parallel Universe

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Graduate Best way to answer beginner questions about quantum mechanics

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Graduate Basis set orthonormality property

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Graduate Basic questions on quantum scattering

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Graduate Why study the QED vertex if 4-momentum conservation forbids it

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Graduate Why isolated eigenvalues have normalizable eigenstates

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High School Question: Protons and Neutrons Popping into and out of existance

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Graduate Does the potential change as an electron moves within an atom?

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Graduate Why doesn't the Electron crash into the proton in an H atom?

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Graduate Wave function and spatial phase factor

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Graduate What is the Meaning of [J1,J2] = 0 in the Addition of Angular Momenta?

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Graduate Incandescence and energy bands

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Graduate Spectral theory in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Are probability waves real and does wave collapse respect relativity?

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Graduate Does energy-time uncertainty follow from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

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Undergrad What is a magnetic field composed of?

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Undergrad How does light show particle properties?

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Graduate Energy becoming mass? Wilczek question

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Graduate How do forces work in quantum mechanics if matter has wave-particle duality?

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Graduate Why don't electrons crash into the nucleus?

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Graduate Wave-particle duality and electromagnetic waves

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Graduate Measure invariance under unitary transformation in functional integrals

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Graduate What is the relationship between rest energy and frequency in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How do photon-electron transitions relate to frequency and motion?

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Graduate Understand Uncertainty Principle in Computer Simulations

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Graduate Construction of a Hilbert space and operators on it

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Graduate What Are the Hidden Variables Behind Photon Wave Function Collapse?

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Graduate Scattered states and bound states ?

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Undergrad Can Atoms Produce Photons Through Electron Excitation?

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Graduate Why is zero-point energy finite for a quantum harmonic oscillator?

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Graduate Size of a photon's electromagnetic field

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Graduate How can the Heisenberg formula be proven in simple terms?

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Graduate Why does strong magnetic field destroy spherical symmetry of atom?

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Graduate How are spin matrices constructed for S=5/2 systems?

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Graduate Moment of inertia tensor of an electron?

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Graduate Why can't a man in the middle attack intercept quantum cryptography?

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Graduate Spacetime states in Rovelli's book Quantum Gravity

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Graduate How did Planck come up with 'h'?

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Graduate Why Bell's inequality predicts 50% agreement between entangled spins

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High School How can a atom generate photons ?

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Graduate How can bosons like pions be made of fermions if they have opposite properties?

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Undergrad How Do Quantum Numbers Shape Atomic Structure?

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Graduate What does off-diagonal term mean?

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Graduate What's wrong with my Schrodinger equation?

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Graduate What is Local U(1) Gauge-Invariance and its role in electromagnetism?

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Graduate Oscillation in Charged Particles

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Undergrad What energy do electrons actually take in an orbital?

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Graduate Probability of a wave function

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Graduate What is the generalization of the BAC-CAB rule for operators?

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Graduate Can Bosons and Leptons Coexist in Same Space?

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Graduate Casimir Effect - min. distance between plates

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Graduate Reasons for natural occuring forces

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Graduate Phase and signal velocity of light inside a medium

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Graduate Is a proton's movement considered a subject of Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Where are the anti-particles in a nuclie?

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Graduate Why do electrons jump energy levels without passing through intermediate states?

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Graduate Is Teleportation Mathematically or Theroretically Possible

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Graduate A question from Weinberg's qft book

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Graduate Planck's Constant Related to Velocity of Light?

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Graduate Electromagnetic Force: Where Does Virtual Photon Get Its Energy?

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Graduate Hartree-Fock Method vs. Configuration Interaction

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Graduate Does Pauli's Exclusion Principle Prevent Atoms from Coexisting in Stars?

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Undergrad Two Slit Experiment Setup and Variables

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Graduate Reasons for phtonic radiation?

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Graduate Symmetric/Antisymmetric states in nature?

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Graduate Why Hamiltonian and L^2 Don't Commute in Linear Molecules

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Graduate Understanding of double silts experiment

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Undergrad Molecular term symbols for quantum states

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Graduate How is entropy defined by boundary area in Holographic Principle?

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Graduate Is the Casimir Effect the Same for Insulators as for Metals?

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Undergrad Hartree & Hartree-Fock: What's the Difference?

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Graduate How to reduce QED to QM using creation/annihilation operators

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Graduate Wave function and orbital question

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Graduate A single photon traveling in space

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Graduate Why do interpretations of quantum mechanics try to be deterministic?

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Graduate How Does a Delta Potential Affect Bound States in a Quantum Infinite Well?

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Graduate What is a wave packet in quantum physics?

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Graduate What do the symbols in quantum equations mean?

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Graduate Could space-time be a property of matter in string theory?

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Graduate Why reflection and transmission probabilities add up in Feynman's QED

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Graduate Can I Tell if a State is Ground State?

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Graduate What's actually happening in the photovoltaic effect

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Graduate Can we model quantum particle behavior as probability microwaves in a waveguide?

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Undergrad Single photon and the double slit

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Graduate Negative energy in Dirac theory

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Undergrad What path do electrons actually take in an orbital

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Undergrad Electrons Jumping: What Does it Mean?

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Graduate How to Label Spin Hamiltonian by Ms in EPR Experiments?

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Graduate Entanglement between particles of no common history

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Undergrad Is Compton Scattering Valid at 180 Degrees?

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Graduate Why does Stern-Gerlach measure spin along the device axis?

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Graduate Interaction picture (Is there a mistake in QFT books?)

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