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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 What is the magnetic quantum number and how does it relate to external magnetic fields?

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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 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 Why are energy eigenstates time-independent if energy is definite?

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Undergrad Can we see individual photons and do they have dimensions?

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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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Graduate Is the singlet state just a special case of mixture?

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Graduate Densely defined operators of Fock space

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Graduate Gauge Boson Propagators in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories

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High School Longest photon wavelength observed?

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Graduate Wick rotation and contour integral

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Graduate What do A* and A† mean in quantum mechanics notation?

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Graduate Understanding Extra Internal Degree of Freedom from QM and SR

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Graduate Ground State Energy of an Electron

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Graduate Paradox seemingly violating relativity

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Graduate How to dertermine the Hamiltonian matrix

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Graduate Transformation of energy space to momentum space

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Graduate Why do we need mixed quantum states in experiments?

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Graduate Crossing nodes of wavefunction

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Graduate Solutions of TISE - is it all about groping in the dark?

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Graduate Force on Walls of Rectangular Potential Box by Particle Inside

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Graduate What is the Explanation for the Double Slit Experiment in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Calculation of scattering amplitude ratio for two different angles

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Graduate Resonance states and complex energies

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Graduate Eigenkets of a function of a hermitian operator

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Graduate What does it mean to transmit classical information through a quantum channel?

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Undergrad Wave packet conceptual question

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Undergrad Faster then the speed of light

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Graduate What is the solution for the quantum harmonic oscillator formula for nucleons?

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Graduate Off the mass shell and external fields

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Graduate Entanglement and the double slit experiment

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Graduate The Borderworld between Quantum and Classical Physics

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High School Can uncertainties become smaller in certain cases?

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Graduate Do particles or antiparticles go back in time in Feynman diagrams?

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Graduate Why does one photon conserve spin in 22Na beta decay to 21Ne?

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Undergrad Difference between a particle and a virtual particle

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Graduate What Do Feynman Diagrams Reveal About Time Reversibility?

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Accounting for Other Particle Interactions

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Graduate Refraction due to attractive potential

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Graduate The necessity of the 2nd quantization?

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Graduate Bound states for a half harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Double-slit experiment - a couple of questions

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Graduate Dimension of Hilbert Space in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Dimensions and the Generating Functional

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Graduate Seven Questions for Quantum Physicists

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Graduate What is the Controversy Surrounding Retrocausality?

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Graduate Can Noncommutative Operators Be Integrated in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Check If Operator Is Hermitian: Real Eigenvalue Test

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Graduate How to get QFT operator expectation values?

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Graduate Variational principle convergence

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Graduate Is light an electromagnetic radiation. If so< then isn't it casued by

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Graduate E=1/n^2 (-13.6eV) for other one-electron atoms –ionized helium (Z=2),

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Graduate Is Radiative Loss Accounted for in the Usual Treatment of Compton Scattering?

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Graduate Why Must Potential Energy V(x) Be Real in the Schrödinger Equation?

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Undergrad Difference between ionization energy and photoelectric effect?

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Graduate On General Measure of Entanglement

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal with regards to electron orbits

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Graduate Purely imaginary bound state wave functions?

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Graduate How to calculate the many-body wavefunction

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Graduate HELP Can you find an electron in the exact middle of an S orbital?

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Graduate How is light created and propagated at the quantum and wave level?

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Graduate Fermi's Golden Rule and Density of States

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Graduate How does the delta function relate to the momentum operator in Dirac notation?

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Graduate Why does the free particle wavefunction drop the Bexp(-ikx) term?

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Graduate Coupled quantum harmonic oscillators

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Graduate Is Wave-Particle Duality of Light a Misleading Concept?

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High School What part of the atom creates light?

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Undergrad Can Antiparticles be Visualized in Particle Detectors?

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Graduate Could we do QM without time evolution ?

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Graduate Canonical quantization with constraints

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Graduate Could Hidden Dimensions Explain the Twin-Slit Experiment?

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Undergrad What were the implications of this quantum effect?

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Graduate Verifying a simple QFT derivation in Peskin's

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Graduate Normalizing the Schrödinger Equation

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Graduate Can entangled particles maintain entanglement through a beam splitter?

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Graduate Coincidence and Single Rate detection in Quantum Eraser experiments

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Graduate Gravity Propagation Experiment.

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Graduate Is Frequency a Fundamental Property of Signals or a Mathematical Construct?

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Undergrad Where can I start learning about quantum physics?

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Graduate Proof of a commutator algebra exp(A)exp(B)=exp(B)exp(A)exp([A,B])

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Graduate Equating the uncertainty relations?

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Graduate Proof that the eigenfunctions of a self-adjoint operator form a complete set.

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Graduate Can non-commutative geometry describe phase space with Planck-scale uncertainty?

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Graduate Prerequisites for studying relativistic quantum mechanics

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Graduate Can Two Photons Co-Orbit Stably Through Mutual Energy Attraction?

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Graduate (1/2,1/2) representation and photon

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Graduate Ground state energy of hydrogen atom

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Graduate Spread fo wavefunctions - filling the universe?

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Graduate Questions on Feynman's view on Double slit experiment

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Graduate What is the Pauli-Lubanski Pseudo-Vector and How Can its Invariance be Proven?

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Graduate Finding Simplicity in Summation Expressions

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