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Graduate State Tomography: Least Pairs Needed?

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Graduate Dispersion Relation: What is it for Photons?

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Graduate Verifying Wave Packet Delocalization: Experiments & Results

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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 Spin Observables: Defining Reference Axes

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Graduate Quantum Immortality Explained: Proving Life After Death?

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Graduate Irreducible tensor (second or higher rank)

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

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Graduate Electron wave function collapse

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

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Graduate Why use direct product construction in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Measuring angular momentum in atomic systems

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Graduate What Happens When You Measure a Superposition State in Harmonic Oscillators?

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Graduate Electron in potential well equation

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Graduate Explicitly Deriving the Delta Function

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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

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

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Graduate Solution of 1D Schrodinger using discretized hamiltonian

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Graduate Field theory approaches to understanding Quantum Theory

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

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Graduate Quantization of Color: Electrons Jump Between Orbits

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Graduate Electron filmed for first time ever

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Graduate [Q]Degeneracy and Commutability

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Graduate How many of you guys accept quantum theory?

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

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Graduate Entanglement HELP: A Heuristic Explination Needed

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

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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?

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Coherent?

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Graduate Exploring Peskin & Schroeder's QFT Propositions on p. 166

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Graduate Yang-Mills Geometry: An Explainer for Simpletons

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Graduate Confuse about the spin and pauli matrices

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Graduate Dirac equation with gamma_5 mass term?

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Undergrad Dual Slit Experiment: Detecting Photons/Particles?

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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 Hamiltonian: The Key to Understanding Total Energy in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate [Q]Some confusing about Dirac Delta Function

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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

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

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Graduate Native language: EnglishLevel of quantum mechanics: Introductory or beginner

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Graduate How dangerous is matter/antimatter collisions?

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Graduate Detecting Macroscopic Entanglement With the Bell Inequality

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

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Graduate Why Were Gauges Introduced in Modern Physics Theories?

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Graduate Questioning Wavepacket: Seeking Clarification

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

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Graduate Time-independent Schrödinger Equation

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Graduate Symmetry factors for Feynman diagrams

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Graduate Zero-Point Energy Manipulation

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Graduate Gaussian Wave Packet: Reflection & Transmission

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Graduate Commutator in QM vs. Lie brackets in DG

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Graduate Information Preservation in Quantum Gravity

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Undergrad Why does a black body never turn green when heated?

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Graduate Elementary Particles: Bosons & Fermions

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Graduate Schrödinger equation where V = |x|

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Graduate Particles that already exist become entangled

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Graduate [Q] square of 'sinc function' integral

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Graduate Quantum Computing: Understanding Quantum Bits

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

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Graduate QM Collisions: How Two Particles Interact

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Graduate Goldstein schodinger's equation Lagragian problem.

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Graduate [Q]Momentum eigenstate normailization

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High School I am newb please explain this about Electrons

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Graduate PDC Type I: Unreasonable "Elements of Reality" in Bell Tests?

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High School Need Help Understanding Closure Rule

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Graduate Why Wave Functions Use Complex Exponentials vs Trigonometric Functions

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Graduate Quantum Tunneling: Particle Paths & Interactions

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Graduate Velocity operator inconsistency and discrete particle

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Graduate Scattering and bound states

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Graduate Quantum Physics and the Pensions Crisis

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Graduate Superposition of eigenstates in QM

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Graduate Commuting creation and annihilation operators

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Graduate The state of a particle changes when viewed

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

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Graduate Defending Bohmian Trajectories: A Critical Analysis of ESSW and Hiley's Papers

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

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Graduate Is friction a quantum phenomenon at the atomic level?

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Graduate Can Quantum Computers Use Alternatives to Qubits for Entanglement?

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Graduate Entanglement spooky action at a distance

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Graduate Getting Started with Gaussian Wavepackets & Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Particle-Wave Duality

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Graduate Understanding Reference Frames in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Is Time Really Symmetrical in the Quantum World?

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Graduate Velocity of Electrons in Hydrogen Atom

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Undergrad Understanding Magnetic Quantum Numbers: Demystifying the Concept for Students

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Graduate Understanding Pauli Matrices and Rotations

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Graduate Integral of a delta function from -infinity to 0 or 0 to +infinity

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Graduate EPR Paradox: Examining Einstein's Challenge to QM

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Graduate What Is the Significance of Quark Spin in Quantum Physics?

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Undergrad Planck's law and ultraviolet catastrophe

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Graduate Energy Eigenstates: Solving Schrodinger Equation & Time-Indep

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Undergrad Can We See Photons? Understanding Their Dimensions & Speed

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Graduate Proving IN DIRAC THEORY Free Particles Possess Acceleration"

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Graduate Do Signal and Idler Photons from PDC Always Share Equal Energy?

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Graduate Do Transition Dipole Moments Have Different Signs? Resolving a Contradiction

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