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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Undergrad Energy operator in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Is quantum entanglement just like ordering Schrodinger's Slice pizza?
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Graduate Wolfram Schommers Projection theory
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Graduate Matrices from Spherical Harmonics with Eigenvalue l+1
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Undergrad What does an uncertainity of 0 mean?
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Graduate Suggested reading for quantum information applications in QFT
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Undergrad Extraction of a particular quantum state from a quantum circuit
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High School Are Spin Operators Along Opposite Cartesian Axes Compatible?
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High School Wave-Particle Duality Controlled by Single-Photon Self-Entanglement
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High School Does the energy 6.626x10^-34J have any special meaning?
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Graduate Representation of Z2 acting on wavefunctions
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Undergrad Wave function: vector or scalar?
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Undergrad Measurement of an entangled Particles in two Different Bases
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High School What is the pattern in a double slit experiment near the slits?
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Undergrad How to find the photon's path?
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High School Does an electron have kinetic energy when attached to a proton?
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High School What does the unit "Js" of the Planck constant mean?
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Graduate Heisenberg equations of Klein-Gordon Field in Space-Time
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Undergrad Does intrinsic (e.g., spin) imply elementary (irreducible)?
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High School Basic Question: What are energy levels, of photons, for example?
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High School Quantum Entanglement Communication Radio
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Undergrad What is the paradox in the EPR paradox?
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Undergrad Understanding the meaning of "uncertainty" in Heisenberg's UP
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High School How does the electric field of an electron compare to its probability wave?
  • DarkMattrHole
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Graduate Understanding Cartan subalgebra applied to the n-harmonic oscillator
  • JD_PM
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Graduate Discussing the mathematical formalism of generators (Lorentz Group)
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High School How to differentiate b/w two collapsed values in Bell States
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Graduate Trying to make sense of the double slit "experiment"
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Undergrad QED - ordering of Feynman diagram rules
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Undergrad Measuring Entangled Particles in two different Basis
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Undergrad A query regarding Rotational Invariance
  • Student149
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Undergrad Did Anyone Create an Anti-Hydrogen Beam?
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Undergrad Possible paradox in the uncertainty principle?
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High School Simulators for Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad A query regarding Spin Entanglement Measurement
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High School Can spontaneous emission be considered a thermodynamic process?
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Undergrad Stern-Gerlach w. normal distribution if magnets were more separated?
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High School When the wave function collapses, how long is it collasped?
  • wolfy
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Undergrad A question about the Collapse of a Wavefunction
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Undergrad Has this photon experiment ever been done?
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Undergrad Confused about perturbation theory
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High School A few basic questions about the absorption/emission of photons
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Undergrad Two slit experiment with different sized slits
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High School When are particles in a superposition of states?
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Undergrad Maxwell's Demon and the Uncertainty Principle
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Undergrad Photon & Wave Mode: Equivalent or Not?
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Graduate Boundary conditions of eigenfunctions with Yukawa potential
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Graduate Invariance of discrete Spectrum with respect a Darboux transformation
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Undergrad Physics from Symmetry: Superb Book for Learning QM & More
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Undergrad I don't understand about infinitesimal translation
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Undergrad Does vacuum excitation violate the conservation of energy?
  • Haorong Wu
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Undergrad Entanglement of Electrons Through Experiments: What's Possible?
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Undergrad Understanding Time Crystals: A Beginner's Guide
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Undergrad Is the small world uncertain, or is that just our perception?
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Undergrad Measurement of Entangled Particles causes up or down spin?
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High School Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state
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Undergrad Superposition of large objects
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Undergrad Microscopic and macroscopic physics
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Undergrad Photon Momentum: The Impact of Light on Movement in Space
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High School Speed of electrons in a 2-slit experiment
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Undergrad Confused about the AC Stark effect
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Undergrad Are Coin Flips Truly Random Like Quantum Systems?
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Undergrad What Do Phase Space Path Integrals Compute?
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Undergrad Condtion on transformation to solve the Dirac equation
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High School Do photons, phonons and electrons have mass?
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Graduate There is a high concentration of introductory material on wave-particle duality
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High School Can a particle / wave pass through a sheet of material?
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High School Uncertainty Principle versus spin alignment
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Undergrad Quantum Eraser: do entangled photons arrive at different moments?
  • Leonardo Muzzi
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Graduate Compton Recoil and the Electron Differential Cross Section
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Graduate Quantum Ising model correlation function query
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Undergrad Physically acceptable solutions to the Schroedinger equation?
  • etotheipi
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Undergrad How to prove that some fields are different aspects of one general field?
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Undergrad Changing the effective mass of an electron using electric potentials?
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Undergrad Conductors and weak interaction
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Undergrad Relation between spin and solar winds
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Graduate How does one make a macroscopic object?
  • Paul Colby
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Undergrad The reference frame for angular momentum components
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High School Does the future affect the past in a quantum world?
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Undergrad Correlation between Symmetry number & Total wavefunction
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High School Stern-Gerlach experiment - please confirm this surprising result
  • Jehannum
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High School Are electromagnetic wavelength and quantum wavelength the same thing?
  • Jehannum
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Graduate Derive the Principle of Least Action from the Path Integral?
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Graduate Can Bohmian Mechanics Effectively Address Relativistic Quantum Field Theories?
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High School Searching for a Lost PhD Thesis on Black Holes
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Graduate J-aggregation and H-aggregation differences
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High School Why don't electrons fall into the nucleus?.
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Undergrad Schiff moment in classical electrostatics
  • BillKet
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Undergrad How do you normalize this wave function?
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High School Quantum Entanglement spin measurement
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Graduate How Can I Address the Divergence in $\phi$ and $\ket{\overrightarrow{P}}$?
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High School Why is an electron's changing behaviour upon observation fascinating?
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Undergrad How did Schrödinger find his equation?
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Undergrad Can an electron quantum tunnel inside the potential barrier?
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Graduate General Covariance in Quantum Field Theory
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Undergrad Relativistic quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Repulsion before the screen in a double-slit experiment
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Insights Misconceptions about Virtual Particles - Comments
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Undergrad Are Energy Eigenstate Coefficients Real-valued?
  • LarryS
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Undergrad Probability of neutrino switching: more massive, more probable?
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