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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 Physical Entities or Just Theoretical Constructs?

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Graduate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

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Undergrad Magnetic Field Composition: Unraveling the Mystery

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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 Quantum Mechanics & Force: Wave-Particle Duality

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Graduate Electron-Proton Collisions: Understanding the Quantum Dynamics

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Graduate Wave-particle duality and electromagnetic waves

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Graduate Functional Integral in Free-Field Theory: Understanding the Derivation

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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 Understanding Zero-Point Energy: An Explanation for Confused Minds

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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 Understanding Spin Matrix: Pauli Matrices and 6x6 Matrices

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Graduate Moment of inertia tensor of an electron?

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Graduate Debunking the Hype: The Truth About 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 Trouble with QM's theory on Bell's discovery

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High School How can a atom generate photons ?

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Graduate Particle Physics Confusion: Understanding Fermions & Bosons

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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 Exploring Quantum Leap: Causes, Effects, & Possibilities

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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 Atomic & Molecular Symbols: What Do They Mean?

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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 Reduce QED to QM: A Restatement Based on 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 Deterministic Quantum Mechanics?

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

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Graduate Wave Packet: What Is It? | Abhimanyu

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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 QED: reflection of light in glass

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Graduate Can I Tell if a State is Ground State?

  • KFC
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Graduate What's actually happening in the photovoltaic effect

  • Tam Hunt
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Graduate Model QM Behavior of Particle as Probability 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?

  • Rajini
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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 Another Stern-Gerlach Question

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

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Graduate State of an electron, including spin

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Graduate Heuristic explanation of why quantum mechanics plus SR imply antiparticles

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Graduate Sudden Approximation and Adiabatic theorem

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Graduate Treating operators with continuous spectra as if they had actual eigenvectors?

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Graduate IV curve on photoelectric effect

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Graduate Phonons vs Gauge Bosons: What's the Difference?

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Graduate Is There a Link Between the Brain and Dark Energy?

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Graduate Solving Potential V with Schrodinger Equation

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Undergrad Fundamental reason behind Aufbau principle

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Graduate Adiabatic Spin Manipulation in EPR Experiment

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Undergrad Looking for Layman's Physical Explanation for the lowest energy level in atoms

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Graduate When a particle tunnels where does the energy come from

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Graduate Photons determine the property of an electromagnetic wave

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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations of Negative Energy

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