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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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Undergrad Light Propulsion: Can Photons Move Objects?

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Graduate Why Do Different Terms Arising From An Electron Configuration Differ In Energy?

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Graduate About scattering and bound states

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Graduate Is angular momentum always quantized?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Determinism

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Graduate Dirac equation and general covariance

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Undergrad Can someone explain the idea of degeneracy of orbitals?

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Graduate Baker, Campbell, Hausdorff and all that

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Graduate Dual Gauge Curvature for U(1) and SU(3)

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Graduate Time translation in the heisenberg picture?

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Graduate Pure Qubit Question: Does Alice Fulfill Bob's Demand?

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Graduate Berry phase in degenerare case

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Graduate Proving $\frac{d}{dt}\left\langle{XP}\right\rangle$ for Hamiltonian H

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Graduate Explaining the Color Change of Black Body Radiation from Coal

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Graduate Causal Evolution of Wave Function and Gravity

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Graduate Solving Mandl & Shaw 2.5: Show U = e^(-i/h)δαPα

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Graduate Discussing Bose Einstein Condensate: Questions & Answers

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Graduate Transition Probability for a Laser system

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Graduate What would happen to pauli exclusion principle

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Graduate Waveequation for relativistic particle

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Graduate How Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Relate to Photon Polarization?

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Graduate Uniqueness of quantization of Dirac field

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Graduate Novikov self-consistency principle

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Graduate Solve Mandl & Shaw 2.3: Prove Lorentz Condition

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Graduate Dual of Maxwell tensor as gauge curvature

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Graduate Schwinger-Dyson equations for Quantum Gravity

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Graduate Calculating Probability of Measuring +h/2 in 1D HO

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Graduate A question on wave-particle duality

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Graduate What are the properties of a Hermitian Hamiltonian operator?

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Graduate Resolving the Uncertainty Principle: The Puzzle of Measuring Photon Momentum

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Graduate Question on UV and IR divergences

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Graduate Quantum myth 2. time-energy uncertainty

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Graduate Unifying Electroweak & Strong Forces: Electrostrong Force

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Undergrad Help with simple Einstein photon equation

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Graduate Particle Octet: Explaining No Spin 1/2 Particles

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Graduate Is pauli exclusion principle a force

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Gaussian Distributions

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Graduate Dirac Delta Function question(s)

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Graduate Quantum myth 1. wave-particle duality

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Graduate Is quantum theory really necessary?

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