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Graduate Local measurements on an entangled pair. (My understanding)

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Graduate Feynman propagator as distribution

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Graduate Non-Physicist looking for an answer

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Graduate Why doesn't a narrow tube let me measure both photon position and momentum?

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Graduate Two body problem of Hidrogen Atom

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Graduate Angular Momentum, Spin and SO(3), SU(2), and Lorentz Group

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Graduate How Small Can Computers Get Before They Become Phantom Devices?

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Graduate Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing

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Graduate True vacuums with no energy at all inside

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Graduate Are the Quantum Numbers real ?

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Graduate A common sense objection to tunneling?

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Graduate The Meaning of Schrodingers Equation - In English

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Graduate Understanding Classical Physics: The Role of Planck Constant

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Graduate Quantum computations, irreversibility, unitarity

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Graduate Foldy-Wouthusien velocity operator

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Graduate Why doesn't the hydrogen spectrum show binding energies of 4.53 or 2.26 evolts?

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Graduate Heisenberg's equation of motion

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Graduate Berry's phase of bloch oscillation

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Graduate What Conditions Ensure Adiabaticity in a Slowly Varying Harmonic Oscillator?

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Graduate Spin of the sress-energy tensor in d=2

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Graduate Do lamps emit photons one by one with random delays?

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Is the film about liquid nitrogen and superconductors accurate?

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Graduate Charge In Schroedinger's Equation

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Graduate What is the result of Fourier transformation of functional theta function?

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High School Getting Involved In High School?

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Graduate Minimum possible energy for a particle in a box

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Graduate Momentum as the generator of translation

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Undergrad What is the Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Information RE The Double-Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Have you heard about QED coherence in matter?

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Graduate What's the difference between them

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Graduate The idea behind renormalization group.

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Graduate What happed to the other, if one entangled particle is destroyed

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Graduate Do waves and/or particles exist at all?

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Graduate Are quantum waves real or just mathematical constructs?

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Graduate How can the Cauchy integral and Fourier integral produce the same result?

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Graduate Linear terms in loop integrals vanish by symmetry

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Graduate Are Electron Orbits Really Circular or Is It Just an Artist's Depiction?

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Undergrad Converting cm^-1 for Fine-Structure Energy Difference

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Graduate Maxwell's equations, Orthogonality, electric and magnetic fields in EM

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Graduate How Large Can a Nucleus Get Before Instability Sets In?

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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: HotQuanta's Insight

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Graduate Ansatz: Principle, Hypothesis, Boundary Condition?

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Graduate Can virtual particles appear ANYWHERE?

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Graduate When do we use notion of effective mass

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Graduate Noncommuting operators and uncertainty relations

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Graduate Appropriate Concepts in the Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate How do electrons survive at absolute zero?

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Graduate Is the momentum operator Hermitian only for normalized wavefunctions?

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Graduate Visualisation of H2 molecule wavefuctions needed

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Graduate How Do Frequencies Cancel Out in the Casimir Effect?

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Graduate What is a contact transformation according to Dirac's Lectures on QFT?

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Undergrad Wavelength - differences in equations

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Graduate Ground State Frequency of Electron in H+

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Graduate Understanding Hilbert Space in Quantum Mechanics: A Beginner's Guide

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Graduate Math Required for Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

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Graduate Why Choose Liouville Representation Over Hamiltonian in Classical Mechanics?

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Graduate Starting Place For Quantum Physics

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Graduate How can decelerated electrons produce waves if the charge isn't oscillating?

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Is quantum physics connected to spirituality?

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Graduate How Does the Photoelectric Effect Transition from Wave to Particle Theory?

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Undergrad How do light, current, and magnetism relate in the electromagnetic spectrum?

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Graduate Are Photons Truly Particles or Simply Waves?

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Graduate Can wave function overlap in potential wells explain attractive forces?

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Undergrad Why Electrons Don't Fall Into Nucleus of Atoms

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Undergrad What results when sound interacts with an Atom

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Graduate The exact meaning of the 4 components of the Dirac Spinor

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Graduate Propagator - Hankel function - infinite? - Weinberg

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Graduate Commutation relation for L_3 and phi

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Undergrad Undergraduate Lab: Photoelectric Effect Experiment

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Graduate What is the inner product in state (ket/Hilbert) space.

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Graduate Back up a step, before Bell's theorem

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Graduate Does the Phase Factor in Wave Function Matter?

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Graduate Opinions on the use of the expression Quantum Leap

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Graduate Quantum Paradox: Interfering Imaginary Slits?

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Graduate The Doppler Effect- According to Quantum Mechanics

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End of electrons leaving metal

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Undergrad Why don't electrons leave a negatively charged metal in air?

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Graduate Which Differential Equation Does a Finite Wave Train Follow?

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Graduate Physical meaning of the 2 eigenfunctions of Free Particle

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Graduate Experimental distinction between states with one and two photons

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Graduate Commuting metric past Dirac spinors?

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Graduate Why do electrons in my body move through time with me?

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Graduate Why there isn't missing information in QM

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Graduate What is the Locality Principle in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)

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Graduate Quantum Hall Thruster? (QuantumHallEffect+HallThruster=?)

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Graduate Is Gravity Linked to Quantum Entanglement?

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Graduate Functional integral with delta distributions in the exponent

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Graduate What Happens When We Cover Up One Slit in the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Hypothesis about Quantum Interference in Time

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Undergrad Do Photons Decay or Scatter?

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Undergrad Can 2px, 2py, 2pz correspond to different magnetic quantum numbers?

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Graduate Can Single Photons Be Isolated and Accelerated?

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Graduate Atom can give rise to singlet, doublet, triplet, and quartet states?

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Graduate Physical Nature of Non-Zero Component in Finite Square Well Bound Eigenstates

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Graduate Fermi-Dirac statistics valid for electron gas in metals?

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Graduate The electromagnetic current vanishes identically in the Majorana case

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