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Graduate Ladder Operator/hermiticity

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Graduate What are the Consequences of Varying Planck's Constant?

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Graduate Quantum Wave Function: Dependency & Increment Mystery

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Graduate How abou the hidden variable theory?

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Graduate Weak Field Tensor: Explained by Ben

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Undergrad Tunneling through a PE barrier

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Solve "And God Said" Equation on Postcard | D

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Graduate How to prove Coleman's formula for the ratio of two determinants?

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Graduate Double slit electron experiment

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Graduate What is the meaning of the lower case i in the Schrodinger equation?

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Graduate QM calculation of vacuum energy

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Graduate What Causes Quantum Foam to Form at a Sub-Planck Level?

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Undergrad Let's get it right about Electron Waves

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Graduate The magnetic field in Stern-Gerlach

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Graduate Quantum myth 4: The only reality is the measured reality

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Graduate Why did Schrodinger call his equation eigenvalue problem?

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Graduate Calculating Time Evolution of Density Matrix

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: What Happens & Why?

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Graduate Temperature and quantum physics

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The title? (one of Dirac's books)

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High School Red Light in Darkrooms: Benefits for Photographic Film

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Graduate Stern Gerlach Gradient Field Strength

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Graduate Psi^4 Theory: A Fermion with Quartic Self-Interaction

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Graduate Question on quadratic fluctuations in the path integral formalism

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Graduate FTL Communication-Best Candidate?

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Graduate Natural Eigenbasis composite 2 X Spin 1/2 system

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Graduate Understanding the Physical Meaning of Pauli Matrices and Electron Spin

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Undergrad The Power of Photon Theory: How UV & IR Light Affect Skin Cells

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Graduate Particle in Two Boxes: Impact of Dividing Barrier on Energy State

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Graduate Classical -> Quantum Generator of Translation

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Graduate What Is The Origination Of Zero Point Energy

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Graduate I need your help teaching physics

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Graduate What is the justification for the substitution p_x -> (h/i)d/dx in physics?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Fundamental Question

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Graduate How Are the Coefficients of a Qubit's Density Matrix Constrained?

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Graduate What is the Operator for Spin-3/2 Rotation in Fermion Fields?

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Graduate Virtual Particles: Explained in Layman's Terms

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Graduate A practical application of quantum mechanics

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Graduate What is the Force of Radiation Resistance?

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Graduate Time scale of photon absorption in electron

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Graduate Quantum Physics, when is spin-orbit coupling necessary?

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Graduate Effect Preceding Cause: A Quantum Physics Thought Experiment on Usenet

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Graduate Wavefunction collapse => increase in entropy?

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Graduate Hamiltonian & Degeneracy: Conditions

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Undergrad Energy levels in a potential well

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Graduate Hawking radiation - please explain

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Graduate Wave-particle duality/double slit experiment

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Graduate Can Maxwell's equations describe a single photon?

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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Photons, Electrons & Heisenberg's Uncertainty

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Graduate Is Angular Momentum Conserved in EPR Pair Measurements?

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Graduate Can every attractive 1D potential have at least one bound state?

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Graduate Why permeability equal to unity?

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Graduate The phase velocity of laser light

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Graduate What Defines Quantum Chaos in Experiments?

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Graduate Simple example of the collapse of the wavefunction?

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Graduate Did Exponential Expansion Trigger Early Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking?

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Graduate Can Planck Units Truly Redefine Our Understanding of the Universe?

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Graduate Written in the skies: why quantum mechanics might be wrong

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Graduate Free Particle Wavepacket Spreading: Is it True?

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Graduate Particle in an infinite potential well, showing the uncertainty in x

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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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