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Graduate FAQ - Do Photons Move Slower in a Solid Medium?

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Graduate Simulate Light Not Polarized Using Jones Formalism

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Graduate Is thermal noise truly random in quantum physics?

  • countrymac
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Graduate Field operators - how do they work?

  • erkokite
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Graduate What is the significance of parity in group theory?

  • xylai
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Graduate What Is the Cardinality of Bloch Waves in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate How Do You Compute Non-Integer Powers of Quantum Operators?

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Graduate Feynman's perspective on the double slit

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Undergrad Do individual photons refract when passing through glass?

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Undergrad What is the Pauli exclusion principle?

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Graduate Finding Eigenvalues of Dirac Matrices with Constraint Conditions

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Graduate Stark Effect using first order variation theory.

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Undergrad Black Body Radiation: Why Maintaining Constant Temp?

  • Amith2006
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Graduate Massless Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Is the Entropy of the Universe Zero? Entropy as Entanglement)

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Graduate Lagrangians in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can Random Symmetry Breakings Explain Quantum Oddities?

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Graduate Do protons and neutrons have a wavefunctions?

  • Quantom
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Undergrad What Happens to Matter if Electron Orbit Speed is Slowed?

  • foremanator
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Graduate Does Schrodinger's Cat Qualify as an Observer in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Negative energy in Dirac equation

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Graduate Electromagentic Field vs. Gravity Field

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Graduate What is the purpose of using a potential well to model a particle's confinement?

  • Jacky
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Graduate Understanding Atom Orbital Calculations: Wave Equations, Calculus, and Matrices

  • Quantom
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Graduate Questions on Virtual Particles

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Hydrino and Inverse Quantum States

  • JohnSimpson
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Graduate The Mach-Zehnder interferometer experiment

  • Ciokko
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Graduate Some Confusion with Path Integrals

  • robousy
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Graduate What is the Significance of Planck's Constant and its Reduced Form?

  • nuby
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High School Spectral Lines - What Determines Their Width?

  • Unredeemed
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Graduate Degenerate matter total energy

  • Orion1
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Graduate How can we reconcile the different vector dimensions in QM equations?

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Looking for heterostructures articles

  • wlzy
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Graduate Difference between Mixed State and Superposition

  • Dragonfall
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Graduate What is the smallest Quantum of Energy?

  • wawenspop
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Graduate Understanding Orthogonal Integral on Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

  • nicksauce
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Graduate How is the 4-momentum 4-vector defined in relativistic QM?

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Graduate Why do we have the Heisenberg principle?

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Graduate The physical meaning of Schrödinger's equation

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Undergrad Looking for resources to do with energy transfer.

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Graduate Solving Shrodinger Eqn for Constrained System: Negative Energy Levels?

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Graduate What is the relationship between Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why expectation value of energy differs between two formulas

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Graduate One-dimensional box of some width with a particle inside

  • Domnu
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Graduate Wave Function Zero At Infinity?

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Graduate Can Quantum Tunneling Explain the Proton's Energy Source?

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Graduate Grover's algorithm on entangled states

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Graduate How close are mankind to creating a quantum computer?

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Graduate Matter Waves As Standing Waves

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Graduate Linearity of momentum operator

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Graduate Where does √(p²+m²) come from in Compton effect derivation?

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Graduate Graviton energy and frequency/wavelength?

  • dougclind
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Graduate Viruses and Quantum Mechanical Spreading

  • Domnu
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Graduate Probability Wave Function Ψ(r,t): Time Independence

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Undergrad Why do different frequency EM Waves behave different ?

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Undergrad Trace in statistical mechanics

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle: Position Uncertainty of Electrons

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Graduate Separating Hamiltonian functions. Helium atom.

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Graduate Total Angular Momentum of Many Particles

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Graduate How do n-point functions, Feynman diagrams and the S-matrix connect?

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Graduate Self-taught Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Group Theory Q: Deriving (10.80) Detail Calc

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Graduate Calculating Non-abelian Anomalies: Who Can Do It?

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Graduate Wave functions and Hilbert space in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Shifting Constraints in the Particle in a Box System

  • Domnu
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Graduate Why is the measure d³k invariant under rotation in QFT?

  • whynothis
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Graduate Observation and the Double Slit Expt

  • Richter915
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Graduate Is There a Conflict Between Quantum Entanglement and Special Relativity?

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Graduate Does a Static Charge in a Classical Field Constantly Lose Energy?

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate The Photoelectric Effect, Photon Duality, and The Double-Slit Experiment

  • uby
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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Apply to All Scales of Reality?

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Quick Braket Questions: A|B> & <B|A

  • Domnu
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Graduate Struggling with Angular Momentum in Spherical Coordinates?

  • Domnu
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Graduate Question regarding Schroedinger's Equation

  • Domnu
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Graduate Can Outcome Counting Replace the Born Rule in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Hamiltonian in terms of ladders, question.

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Graduate Quantum Network and Quantum Imaging

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Graduate What is the operator for velocity in spherical coordinates?

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Undergrad 2.)energy Density Of Radiations

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Graduate 3.)tunnel and photoelectric effects

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Graduate Amplifying probability of measuring a desired outcome from a superposition

  • Dragonfall
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Graduate Can one photon be anywhere in Universe?

  • wawenspop
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Graduate Why can't you measure a specific eigenvalue of a unitary operator?

  • Dragonfall
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Does Light Have Mass? Friend Debate

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Graduate Mean lifetime of a particle (quantum)

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Graduate Abstract Schrödinger's equation in QFT

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Graduate Can vacuum be considered as excitable medium?

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Undergrad Deriving Uncertainties for m and b in Least Squares Method"

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Graduate Spectral Zeta function

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Graduate Why Are Electrons Considered Point Particles in Magnetic Moment Studies?

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Graduate Operator and Commutor Question

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Graduate What is the Bessel-Parseval relation and how does it work?

  • Domnu
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Graduate Photoelectric effect: conduction band vs bound electrons in metals

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Graduate Difference equation from the square potential step?

  • Domnu
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Undergrad Show that a wave function is correctly normalised?

  • Dream_Theater
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Graduate Missing square root in Nikolic's formula 26 for vector norm?

  • birulami
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Undergrad How does the Fourier transform work in the free particle case?

  • Domnu
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Graduate QFT and Electrons: Is Instantaneous Orbital Change Possible?

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Graduate Understanding "Borrowed Energy" in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Strange definition of regularization of Operators

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