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Possible Explanation for Quantum Mechanics?
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E=hw law for the energy of photons
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Why Does Neutron Precess Despite q=0?
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Equation calculating the amplitude of a particle
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What are some examples of systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians?
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Quantum Teleportation: Explaining Quantum State, Opposite Phase & Entanglement
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Semiclassical Regime: What Is It & When to Use It
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What Are the Key Applications of Dirac Form in Quantum Mechanics?
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Potential well with two electrons
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How do classical and quantum mesh?
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How does classical fail in here
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Question about the helicity operator
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What is the significance of complementarity in understanding quantum mechanics?
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Quantum myth 3: nature is fundamentally random
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What is the electric field around a quantum particle?
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Klein-Gordon Approximation Question
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Lagrange multiplier for bose- Einstein stats
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Back Correcting the Uncertaininty Principle?
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Is Quantum Theory's Assumptions More Flawed Than Bell's?
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Quantum Physics for a portable game console
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The expectation of 'z' and 'x+iy'
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Schwinger Quantum action
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How does filtering affect the coherence length of white light?
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Can Zero Point Energy Be a Viable Alternative Energy Source?
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Interference between photons that never meet
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Calculating the Inverse of Operator L in R^2
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Order of Interference - 1st, 2nd, 4th - What Does It Mean?
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Space & Time from Spinorial Structures: A Crazy Observation
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Photon as composite of electron and positron
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How Long Can an Atom Stay in an Excited State?
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Nonlocality - fact or fiction?
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Physicists and their pet theories
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Formalisms (in fidelity calculation for quantum teleportation)
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Light Propulsion: Can Photons Move Objects?
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Why Do Different Terms Arising From An Electron Configuration Differ In Energy?
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About scattering and bound states
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Is angular momentum always quantized?
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Quantum Mechanics and Determinism
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Dirac equation and general covariance
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Can someone explain the idea of degeneracy of orbitals?
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Baker, Campbell, Hausdorff and all that
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Dual Gauge Curvature for U(1) and SU(3)
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Time translation in the heisenberg picture?
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Pure Qubit Question: Does Alice Fulfill Bob's Demand?
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Berry phase in degenerare case
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Proving $\frac{d}{dt}\left\langle{XP}\right\rangle$ for Hamiltonian H
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Explaining the Color Change of Black Body Radiation from Coal
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Causal Evolution of Wave Function and Gravity
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Solving Mandl & Shaw 2.5: Show U = e^(-i/h)δαPα
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Discussing Bose Einstein Condensate: Questions & Answers
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Transition Probability for a Laser system
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What would happen to pauli exclusion principle
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Waveequation for relativistic particle
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How Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Relate to Photon Polarization?
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Uniqueness of quantization of Dirac field
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Novikov self-consistency principle
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Solve Mandl & Shaw 2.3: Prove Lorentz Condition
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Dual of Maxwell tensor as gauge curvature
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Schwinger-Dyson equations for Quantum Gravity
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Calculating Probability of Measuring +h/2 in 1D HO
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A question on wave-particle duality
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What are the properties of a Hermitian Hamiltonian operator?
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Resolving the Uncertainty Principle: The Puzzle of Measuring Photon Momentum
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Question on UV and IR divergences
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Quantum myth 2. time-energy uncertainty
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Unifying Electroweak & Strong Forces: Electrostrong Force
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Help with simple Einstein photon equation
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Particle Octet: Explaining No Spin 1/2 Particles
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Is pauli exclusion principle a force
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Gaussian Distributions
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Quantum myth 1. wave-particle duality
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Is quantum theory really necessary?
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Chemistry Meets Quantum Physics: An Exciting Posterboard Project?
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Why Do Vacuum Energy Calculations Vary Between d^3k and d^4k Integrals?
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Heisenberg Undertainty Principle
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Photons - the smallest building block?
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Wave equation - vector notation
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Photoelectric Emission: Why Does Number of Electrons Decrease?
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Wavefunction of relativistic free particle
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Many body problem -> non-interacting particles
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About the origen of the fundamental theories
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What Determines the Frequency and Wavelength of Electromagnetic Radiation?
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Understanding Quantum Energy Levels in Bohr's Model of the Atom
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Speed Quanta: Is There a Lower Limit?
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Anyone know of a good QF doco?
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Antiparticle and particle annihilation
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Where do fermion properties come from?
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Pressure of an electron gas at 0K
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Questions on Neutrinos: How Do We Know?
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Did I Make a Mistake? A Sign Error in an Exercise Answer
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Existence of Virtual Particles
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Proof that (p + ix) operator is non-hermitian (easy)
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Calculate something with QFT - I dare you
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Solving Hamiltonian with chain of charge centers?
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Momentum operator in Schrodinger equation
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Dimensionality and vectors in quantum mechanics
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Does the Beer-Lambert Law Apply Differently in Active Environments?
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Lasers, photo-electric effects and ionization of atoms
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How important is experience in QM?
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Solving schrodingers numerically
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