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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Understanding Time-Dependent Probability in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate About Schrodinger eq. and the potential step case with E = V0
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Graduate Complex Conjugate of Fourier Transform
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Graduate Degrees of Freedom of an electron
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Graduate Boltzmann Factor in QM Language
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Graduate How Do I Work Out the Anti-Commutation Relations in QFT? (Srednicki)
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Graduate When can we ignore the delta function in th Feynman rules?
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Graduate Is Roger Penrose's Corkscrew Model of Magnetic Attraction Valid?
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Graduate Where does phi go in the probability density for hydrogen?
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Graduate Schrodingers Cat and time evolution
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Graduate Hamiltonian Matrix Eq. 8.43 Explained - Feynman III Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Energy & Fields: Uncovering the Mysteries of Modern Physics
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Graduate Solving Schrodinger's Cat Paradox: Is a Superman the Answer?
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Graduate What is your favored interpretation of quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Exploring Properties of Virtual Photons in Positive/Negative Interactions
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Undergrad Why Angular momentum is important?
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Graduate Hamiltonian and Lagrange density
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Graduate SINGLE e-/photon diffraction patterns.
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High School Possible to make 2 beams of light cancel?
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Graduate Is the Radial Momentum Operator Hermitian?
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Undergrad Light, Vacuum, Speed, and Measurements
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Graduate Photon Pairs - Can photons travel in pairs?
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Graduate Microscopy using photons versus electrons
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Graduate Double-Slit experiment in Quaternion Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Where Do Electrons Move in Multi-Dimensional Space?
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality Theory: Explaining Electron Properties
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Graduate Explicit expressions for creation/annihilation operator of the free scalar field
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Graduate Structure of an Atom: Quantum Physics & Basic Measurement
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Graduate Does the State Vector in Quantum Mechanics Move at the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Commutator relations for the Ehrenfest Theorem
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Graduate Deriviation of WKB approximation
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Graduate Klein-Gordon Momentum Question
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Graduate Calculate Effective Action in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Quantum Particle in Two Boxes: Poll on Wave Function and Particle Location
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Graduate Q&A: How Does a Photon Have Momentum w/o Mass?
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Graduate Can Scale Relativity Bridge Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity?
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Graduate Questions about Bell: Answering Philosophical Difficulties
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Graduate Quantum Calculus: Fund. Theorem & Plank Time?
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Graduate Information Paradox confirmed?
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Graduate Are Equal-Time Commutators Essential in QFT?
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Undergrad Understanding Vacuum Photocell: Explanation, Polarities, and Cut-off Potential
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Graduate Can expectation value of observables be imaginary?
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Graduate Why Can Electrons Tunnel Through Finite Barriers but Not Infinite Wells?
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Graduate Understand Mandl & Shaw's Derivation of Moller Scattering
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Undergrad Atomic Isolation: Conditions for Line Spectra
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Graduate Exploring the Amplitude of de Broglie Waves: A Question on Mass and Velocity
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Graduate Coleman's QFT lectures on video
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Graduate Energy changes of a particle tunneling through a barrier
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Graduate Is it possible to determine if a photon is entangled?
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Graduate What is density matrix of one on two entangled qubits?
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Graduate Potential commutes with position?
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Graduate Renormalization - a dippy process - R. Feynman
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Undergrad Links Between Electromagnetic, Electro Static and Gravitational Fields?
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Graduate Clone Non-Orthogonal Quantum States - Violate No-Cloning Theorem
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Graduate Planck's constant and the matter constituents
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Graduate Solving the Massless Klein Gordon Equation
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Graduate Lagrangian Gauge Transformation Q
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Graduate Watching a wavefunction gradually collapse
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Graduate The speed of light as an absolute max
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Graduate Is a squeezed state keeping as a squeezed state in its evolution?
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Your favourite quantum phycisists and why?
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Graduate Does Quantum Tunneling Explain Electron Positioning in Atomic Orbitals?
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Graduate Electron Precession versus Proton Precession in a Magnetometer?
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Graduate Annihilation, perhaps a defination problem
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Graduate Can Electromagnetic Radiation Create Sound?
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Graduate Is Timeless Light the Key to Understanding Quantum Eraser Experiments?
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Graduate Possible Explanation for Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate E=hw law for the energy of photons
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Graduate Is the E=hw Law for Photons Infallible?
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Graduate Why Does Neutron Precess Despite q=0?
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Graduate Equation calculating the amplitude of a particle
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Graduate What are some examples of systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians?
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation: Explaining Quantum State, Opposite Phase & Entanglement
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Graduate Semiclassical Regime: What Is It & When to Use It
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Graduate What Are the Key Applications of Dirac Form in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Potential well with two electrons
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Graduate How do classical and quantum mesh?
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Graduate How does classical fail in here
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Graduate Question about the helicity operator
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Graduate What is the significance of complementarity in understanding quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Quantum myth 3: nature is fundamentally random
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Graduate What is the electric field around a quantum particle?
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Graduate Klein-Gordon Approximation Question
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Graduate Lagrange multiplier for bose- Einstein stats
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Graduate Back Correcting the Uncertaininty Principle?
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Graduate Is Quantum Theory's Assumptions More Flawed Than Bell's?
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Graduate Quantum Physics for a portable game console
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Graduate The expectation of 'z' and 'x+iy'
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Graduate Schwinger Quantum action
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Graduate How does filtering affect the coherence length of white light?
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Graduate Can Zero Point Energy Be a Viable Alternative Energy Source?
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Graduate Interference between photons that never meet
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Graduate Calculating the Inverse of Operator L in R^2
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Graduate Order of Interference - 1st, 2nd, 4th - What Does It Mean?
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Graduate Space & Time from Spinorial Structures: A Crazy Observation
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Graduate Photon as composite of electron and positron
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Graduate How Long Can an Atom Stay in an Excited State?
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Graduate Nonlocality - fact or fiction?
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Graduate Physicists and their pet theories
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Graduate Formalisms (in fidelity calculation for quantum teleportation)
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