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Graduate Understanding the D^{l}(\theta) Representation of 3D Rotations

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Graduate Why is the helicity of a neutrino unchanged by the weak interaction?

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Graduate Numerical solution of Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Wave collapse vs. Friis transmission equation

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Graduate What Is the Significance of Electron Spin in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Quantum Optics: Fock State and Its Meaning for Light

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Graduate Delta function of a function with multiple zeros

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Graduate Applying Riemann-Hilbert Space Curvature to Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can Pinholes Alter Photon Path Deduction in Quantum Mechanics Experiments?

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Graduate Find Min Copies Needed for Certainty of Permuted Qubits w/ General State

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Graduate Current Research in QCD: Areas, Problems & Info

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Graduate Come One, Come All, and Cast Your Vote

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Graduate Time delay for evanescent wave to spread (photon tunnelling)

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Graduate Double slit experiment - QM or wave?

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Graduate Changing the spin of a Quantum particle

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Graduate Relation between potential and bound states in Schrodinger equation.

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Graduate How does Wien's Scaling Law unify experimental data in blackbody radiation?

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Graduate Goldstone bosons 1st order phase transition

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Graduate Quantum Data:Theoretical Requirements

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Undergrad Effect before Cause: Is it possible?

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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator & Schrodinger

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Graduate Easy (I think) quantum non-locality question for the experts

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Graduate Understanding the Main Assumption of Quantum Physics

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Undergrad How Do Electrons Create an Interference Pattern in the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Obama has chosen his VP, the universe has decohered/collapsed

  • Count Iblis
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Graduate Continuing entanglement after first measurement

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Undergrad Understanding Photons as Waves: Interference and Behavior

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Graduate What is a positive definite Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Conservation of momentum and how to entangle

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Graduate References for quantum chromodynamics

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Undergrad Quantizing Photons: Understanding the Nature of Light and Energy

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Graduate Kinetic lagrangian for non-abelian gauge theories

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Graduate How to convert m meter into recoils

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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Enable Superluminal Communication?

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Graduate Spontaneous Breaking Local Gauge Symmetry: Hamiltonian Formalism?

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Graduate Best possible test which differentiates qubits

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Graduate Photon Experiment: What Will I See on Wall B?

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Graduate Is the Correct Delta Function for a QED Vertex \(\delta(p+q-k)\)?

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Graduate Distribution of speeds in a molecular beam.

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Graduate Uncollapsing a wavefunction (demo in low temp cond matter lab)

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Undergrad Why Does the Photoelectric Effect Eject Electrons from the Innermost Shell?

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Graduate Inserting Feynman Slash Notation in Mathematica

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Graduate Broken Symmetries (Weinberg p215)

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Graduate What is the Dirac Equation and How Did it Predict the Existence of Anti-Matter?

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Graduate Mean Field Indices in D>4: Modern Proofs

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Graduate How Does the Euclidean Dirac Operator Connect Quantum Field Theory and Geometry?

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Graduate Problem understanding a statement in Bose Statistics

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Graduate Quantum mechanics vs general relativity

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Graduate How Does Dimensional Regularization Simplify Integrals in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate What happens to qubits if Swap Test fails?

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Graduate Schrodinger's Equation validity for relativistic particles

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Graduate Klein-Gordan Eqn: Understanding Negative Probabilities

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Graduate Diagramatic perturbative expansion of QCD

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Graduate How Does Einstein's Theory of Relativity Derive the Energy of a Single Photon?

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Graduate Running Couplings and Renormalization Explained

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Graduate Is 'Fuzzy' logic an appropiate Quantum logic ?

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Graduate Quantum particle empirical status

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Graduate Particles and Fields – a neverending story

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Graduate Doesn't QM allow for FTL travel?

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Graduate Field Operators in Klein-Gordon theory

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Graduate Whcih Theory Of Quantum Mechanics Is The Right One?

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Graduate Are Scalar Electromagnetics a Revolutionary Energy Source or Just Pseudoscience?

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Graduate Energy levels in finite 1d well

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Graduate Why Irreducibel Representations?

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Graduate Can Observing Particles Without Photons Overcome the Uncertainty Principle?

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High School Double slit experiment -WHAt is it it showing or proving

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Graduate Understanding Particle Mass Shells

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Graduate Time Propagation: Evaluating "exp(-i*H*t)

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Graduate Quantum Well Levels: Energy Changes with Depth

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Undergrad What is the effect of gravity on light?

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Graduate Do Polarizers Affect Entangled Photon Beams Differently?

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Graduate Graviton and photon point particles in reality

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Graduate Fourier Transform of a wavefunction

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Graduate DeltaXDeltaP Greater Than or Equal to h/4pi

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Graduate Could Quantum Time Be Confirmed by the LHC?

  • excogitator
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Graduate Wave/Particle Double Slit Experiment Questions

  • The_Animus
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Graduate How small does sub-atomic universe go?

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Graduate Momentum operator as the generator of translations.

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Graduate Feyman Diagram - Represent QED model(s)?

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Graduate Two interacting electrons in 1D infinite well

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Graduate Entangling Photons: A Brief Overview of Quantum Interference

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Graduate Rayleigh one-two photon, dipole approx

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Graduate GHZ Experiment: Detections vs. Hidden Variables

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Graduate Bellweather grants from FQXi foundation (straws in the quantum gravity wind)

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Undergrad Basic question about velocities of particles

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Graduate How to Normalize the Basic Wave Equation

  • Marthius
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Graduate Challenging the Collapse: Examining the Proof of State in Quantum Physics

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Graduate Is the Group Velocity Double the Phase Velocity at Low Velocities?

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Graduate Hermitian adjoint of the time derivative?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and retrocausality

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Graduate Spin Exchange in Fermi Sea - Evaluating S_x \cdot S_{x+1}

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Graduate A relativistic quantum theory of gravity

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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between Kronecker Delta and Dirac Delta

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Graduate Vacuum state of the Klein-Gordon field

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High School My First Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate Derivative inside, outside time ordering

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Graduate What is the problem with the Stern Gerlach J=1 exercise?

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Graduate Quantum Physics, Causality, and Logic

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Graduate Light Interaction with Electrons in Glass

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Graduate Davisson & Germer experiment question

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