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Graduate Explicit expressions for creation/annihilation operator of the free scalar field

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Graduate Can you calculate atomic dimensions from proton and neutron counts?

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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 Was the particle in the semibox where it was found after the barrier was inserted?

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Graduate How can a photon have momentum without mass?

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Graduate Can Scale Relativity Bridge Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity?

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Graduate Can Bell's theorem escape proof by negation and locality assumptions?

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Graduate Does Planck time affect the fundamental theorem of calculus?

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Graduate Information Paradox confirmed?

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Graduate Why equal-time commutators in QFT instead of space-time commutators

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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 How does Mandl & Shaw's Moller scattering formula give four terms?

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Undergrad Atomic Isolation: Conditions for Line Spectra

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Graduate Does the de Broglie wave amplitude depend on the Lorentz factor?

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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 Progressive collapse of photon number in a cavity field

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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 Does light's timelessness explain the delayed-choice quantum eraser?

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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 What is the semiclassical regime and when does it apply?

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Graduate What is the Dirac form used for 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 Helicity operator commutation with Dirac Hamiltonian

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Graduate What is the significance of complementarity in understanding quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Is nature fundamentally random or merely unpredictable?

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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 Do space and time arise from coupling spinorial structures?

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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 Why does heated coal change color from red to white?

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Graduate Causal Evolution of Wave Function and Gravity

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Graduate Unitary transformation for spacetime translation of scalar fields

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Graduate Is this the right place to discuss Bose Einstein condensate?

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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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