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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 Maximum frequency and temperature relation in Wien's displacement law

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

  • Ahmed Abdullah
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Graduate How does J_z act on the bra in a matrix element?

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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

  • Rich19
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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?

  • yellowgold
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Graduate How does one emit a single photon?

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Graduate Does wavelength affect the group velocity of a wave packet?

  • yellowgold
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Graduate Learning Conformal Field Theory after QM

  • jasonwer
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Graduate State Tomography: Least Pairs Needed?

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Graduate Dispersion Relation: What is it for Photons?

  • yellowgold
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Graduate How is particle delocalization experimentally verified?

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Graduate How much is known about ~x^4 potential

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Graduate Electron double slit experiment in bubble chamber

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Graduate Why do spin observables Sx, Sy and Sz correspond to different Pauli matrices?

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Graduate Does quantum immortality prove life after death?

  • hadeka
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Graduate Irreducible tensor (second or higher rank)

  • ala
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Graduate What Is the Bohr-van Leuven Theorem and Its Significance in Quantum Mechanics?

  • Heirot
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Graduate Electron wave function collapse

  • phil ess
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Graduate Quantum Annoyance (EPR and Bell's Inequality related).

  • Bible Thumper
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Graduate Why use direct product construction in quantum mechanics?

  • KFC
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Graduate Measuring angular momentum in atomic systems

  • pellis
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Graduate Measuring a superposition of harmonic oscillator energy eigenstates

  • daveyman
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Graduate Electron in potential well equation

  • AmyJ
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Graduate Explicitly Deriving the Delta Function

  • dsr39
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High School Build a Solar Panel with TIO2 for Your Science Fair Project

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Graduate Infinite vs Finite potential well

  • Nick89
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High School Where do electrons go while making a quantum jump?

  • todd
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Graduate Solution of 1D Schrodinger using discretized hamiltonian

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Graduate Why continuous random fields instead of particles in quantum theory

  • Peter Morgan
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Graduate How can I reproduce the wavefront interference photon detector seen on Nova?

  • davesplays
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Graduate Quantization of Color: Electrons Jump Between Orbits

  • thenewmans
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Graduate Electron filmed for first time ever

  • SF
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Graduate [Q]Degeneracy and Commutability

  • good_phy
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Graduate How many of you guys accept quantum theory?

  • Bible Thumper
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Graduate What Sparked the Concept of Quantum Tunneling and How is it Proven?

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Graduate Heuristic explanation of quantum entanglement

  • Glenns
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Graduate What does it mean to find eigenvectors of some operator in some basis?

  • KFC
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Graduate Are Eigenfunctions and Eigenstates Just Eigenvectors?

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Graduate Does Observing the Double Slit Collapse the Wave Function?

  • ourben
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Coherent?

  • jomoonrain
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Graduate Angular momentum conversion in high-energy Compton scattering

  • gremezd
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Graduate Yang-Mills Geometry: An Explainer for Simpletons

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Graduate Confuse about the spin and pauli matrices

  • KFC
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Graduate Dirac equation with gamma_5 mass term?

  • Hyperreality
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Undergrad Dual Slit Experiment: Detecting Photons/Particles?

  • jimcave
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Graduate Does Decoherence and Entropy Relate to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

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Graduate What does it mean anharmonic frequency ?

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Graduate Does the Hamiltonian always give the total energy in quantum mechanics?

  • Barny
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Graduate [Q]Some confusing about Dirac Delta Function

  • good_phy
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High School Create a DIY Quantum Mechanics Experiment with Debit Cards and a Laser Pointer

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Graduate Problematic derivations of Noether's theorem

  • ismaili
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Graduate Schrödinger's cat - I don't get it

  • cosmic_tears
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Graduate Difference between wavepacket and wavefunction

  • Alice Jin
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Graduate How dangerous is matter/antimatter collisions?

  • 39ster
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Graduate Detecting Macroscopic Entanglement With the Bell Inequality

  • michael879
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Graduate What could explain the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe?

  • michael879
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Graduate Why Were Gauges Introduced in Modern Physics Theories?

  • White Ink
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Graduate Why do we need wavepackets?

  • Alice Jin
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Graduate Constructing Hamiltonian Matrix from Sz Basis States for Quantum Spin Chains

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Graduate Symmetry factors for Feynman diagrams

  • Jessica_S
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Graduate Zero-Point Energy Manipulation

  • Mr. Freeman
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Graduate Gaussian wave packet on a string with changing mass density

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Graduate Commutator in QM vs. Lie brackets in DG

  • mhazelm
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Graduate Information Preservation in Quantum Gravity

  • Lawrence B. Crowell
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Undergrad Why does a black body never turn green when heated?

  • fluidistic
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Graduate How many elementary particles have been discovered?

  • aman.yash
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Graduate Schrödinger equation where V = |x|

  • ledamage
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Graduate Particles that already exist become entangled

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Graduate [Q] square of 'sinc function' integral

  • good_phy
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Graduate What represents a quantum bit in a physical system?

  • cam875
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Graduate What Are the Best Resources for Researching SIC-POVMs?

  • Kreizhn
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Graduate How can two quantum particles collide if their wave functions just superpose?

  • wofsy
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Graduate Goldstein schodinger's equation Lagragian problem.

  • Peeter
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Graduate [Q]Momentum eigenstate normailization

  • good_phy
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High School Why can't you simultaneously measure position and momentum of an electron?

  • tundra
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Graduate Type I PDC crystals and the EPR element of reality paradox

  • DrChinese
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High School What is the closure rule in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Why Wave Functions Use Complex Exponentials vs Trigonometric Functions

  • redtree
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Graduate Does a tunneling particle follow a path through the barrier?

  • jimmy.neutron
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Graduate Velocity operator inconsistency and discrete particle

  • Frostal
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Graduate Scattering and bound states

  • Niles
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Graduate Quantum Physics and the Pensions Crisis

  • Count Iblis
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Graduate Superposition of eigenstates in QM

  • mhazelm
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Graduate Commuting creation and annihilation operators

  • Rettaw
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Graduate The state of a particle changes when viewed

  • WhoShot
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Graduate Is Space and Time Truly Nonexistent at the Subatomic Level?

  • Mad1kas
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Graduate Quantum potential energy exchange in Hiley's Bohmian trajectory analysis

  • olcay
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Graduate Dirac Delta Function Explained: Simplified for M.S Students

  • maximummman
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Graduate Is friction a quantum phenomenon at the atomic level?

  • Benzoate
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Graduate Can Quantum Computers Use Alternatives to Qubits for Entanglement?

  • LaserMind
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Graduate Entanglement spooky action at a distance

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Graduate How do RMS and uncertainty relate in Gaussian wavepackets?

  • thegaussian
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Graduate Do all particles have both wave and particle properties?

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