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Graduate Light emission/absorption revisited by chemical thermodynamics

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Graduate Planck Scale and Unification of Forces- new research studies

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Graduate Randomness in Quantum Physics

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Graduate How Can the Bohr Radius Help Calculate Energy Levels in Hydrogen?

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Graduate What Happens to the Uncertainty Principle at Absolute Zero?

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Graduate Hydrogen Atom Wavefunction Boundary conditions

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Graduate Learning QFT: Scanning Mandl & Shaw for Highlights

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Graduate Virtual Particles: Exploring Energy Mass & Conservation

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Graduate What are the implications of light having both wave and particle properties?

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Graduate Similarity vs. Unitary Transformations

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Graduate Particle oscillating between two wells

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Graduate What is the physical significance of the commutator in the Virial Theorem?

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Graduate Questioning the Propagator: Diagonal or Not?

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Undergrad Photons and gases (pressure and gravity)

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Graduate [Q]Hamiltonian of many body problem.

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Graduate What can be done when eigenvalues of a Non Hermitian Hamiltonian are complex?

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Graduate QM beginner's question about deltafunction potential problem

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Graduate Questions about Normalized Eigenfunc, Probability & Hamiltonian

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Structure of the wave function space F

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Graduate QM Inconsistency: Friend's Thought Experiment

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Graduate Matter Waves & Electron Traps: Angular Momentum Explained

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Graduate Where can I find detailed description of cononical quantization?

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Graduate What happens during a change in orbital state?

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Graduate [Q] Sign of wavefunction in PIB

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Graduate What Are Some Common Misconceptions About Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate How can get the eigenvalues of the two spin entangle

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Graduate The Lorentz force derived from the Klein Gordon equation

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Graduate Negative energy solutions - Dirac equation

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Graduate How do we define a wave function?

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Graduate Calculate Spin Operators from a Spinor

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Graduate Composite Bosons: Same State? Fermion Implications

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Graduate Measuring J^2 & Angular Momentum in QM

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Graduate Particles being in more than one place at once.

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Graduate Quantum particle passes over a potential drop

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Undergrad Normalization and singularities

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Graduate What are the normalizations constants of psi(x) in a finite potential box?

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Graduate Discrete energy states (explanations in QFT?)

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Graduate Eigen functions & eigen vectors

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Graduate Why Tensor Operator? - Angular Momentum & J.J.Sakurai

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Graduate Tensor Rank: Scalar, Vector, Matrix, & More

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Graduate [Q]Question about harmonic oscilator

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Graduate Quantum Computation: A Single Qubit's Infinite Possibilities

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Graduate Parity Operator: Revealing Function Parity & Its Role in Conservation

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Graduate What is vacuum polarization and vacuum de-polarization ?

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Graduate Questions about quantum field theory

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Graduate [Q]Conserative theorem and parity

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Graduate Formalism and Angular Momentum Expectation Values

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Graduate What is the interpretation of a mass term in field theory?

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Graduate Quantum state: how many bases?

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Graduate Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime?

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Graduate Question regarding a two particle system

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Graduate Why do antiparticles annihilate on contact with normal matter?

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Graduate Quantum logic gate measurement?

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Graduate [Q]Time deviation of expectation value

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Graduate Vector currents, vector fields and bosons

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Graduate Divergences in the sense of QFT

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Graduate Time Evolution of Gaussian Wave packets

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Graduate Operators having Hermitian/Antihermitian part?

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Undergrad Sigma Sub/Sup i,j: Differences & Help

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Graduate Webpage title: The Quantum Nature of the Fresnel Effect

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Graduate QM Questions: Operators, Eigenfunctions, and Hydrogen-like Atoms Explained"

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Graduate Closed-form solutions to the wave equation

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Graduate Lectures of quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Is Time Travel Possible in the Quantum World?

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Graduate Can Cooper Pairs Be Explained Through the Casimir Effect?

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Graduate Can anyone recommend books on the photoelectric effect and its applications?

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Graduate What to learn to link EM wave to photon picture?

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Graduate Quantum mechanics and the speed of light

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Graduate [Q]Eigenfunction of inverse opreator and another question.

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Graduate Understanding the Ephemeral Nature of Life: Anthony Zee on Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate [Q]Expression of Group velocity in QM

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Graduate Can the Fredkin Gate be Proven to be Reversible and a Universal Classical Gate?

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Graduate Understanding Energy Operator in Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Modifications to Einstein-Hilbert action

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Graduate How Does the Wave Function Determine Particle Location Probability?

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Graduate [Q]eigenfunction of position operator and negative energy

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Graduate Did Planck's Original Blackbody Radiation Theory Overlook Zero Point Energy?

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Graduate [Q] Time uncertainty and particle energy similar to photon

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Graduate Proving Hermitian if it has real eigenvalues

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Graduate False: The Time Independent Hamiltonian Operator "H

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Graduate Spinor Spreading: Relation between \psi and \chi

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Graduate Which operator is suitable to define a qubit?

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Graduate [Q]Analytic function of operator A

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Graduate Measuring Position: A Microscopic Being's Perspective

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Graduate Expectation Value of x: Definition & Meaning

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Graduate Momentum and De Broglie Wavelength in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate QFT Overview for Soon-to-be Students

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Undergrad How we can find wavelength of a wavepacket?

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Undergrad What is the Wavelength of the Scattered Photon in a Collision?

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Graduate Max Freq & Temp Relation in Wien Displacement Law

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Graduate Is there no cause and effect relationship in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Question about commutation and operator

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Undergrad Does energy of an electron tells anything about its orbital it's in?

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Graduate What Schrodinger Equation Describes

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Undergrad Quantum cryptography and uncertainty relations

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Graduate Particle-only description of single-photon double-slit experiments

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Undergrad Spring Mass Model: What, How & Is There an Equation?

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Graduate How does one emit a single photon?

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Graduate Relationship between Wave Packet Wavelength & Group Velocity

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Graduate Learning Conformal Field Theory after QM

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