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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 Understanding Photon Emission: Random Time Delay and Duration Explained

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Quantum Nonsense? Film Review on Liquid Nitrogen & Superconductor

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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 Waves Real or Just Mathematical Constructs in Quantum Physics?

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

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Graduate One-particle irreducibles in P&S

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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 Electron Survival Theory at 0K: Explained

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Graduate Question about the hermiticity of the momentum operator

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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 X-Ray Tube Emission: Wave Particle Duality Explained

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Would anyone say that quantum physics is at all connected to spirituality?

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

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Undergrad Light, Current, & Magnetism Relationship?

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Graduate Are Photons Truly Particles or Simply Waves?

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Graduate Double Potential Well: Wave Function & 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 Help W/ Calculating LSZ Formula for 2-2 Scattering Amplitude

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Graduate Commuting metric past Dirac spinors?

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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between Electrons and Time: A Simple Explanation

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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 Path Integral Troubleshooting: Dealing with Delta Distributions in the Exponent

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Graduate Exercises and problems on QED and QFT ?

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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 Atomic Orbitals | n=2, l=1, P Orbital, Magnetic Quantum No.

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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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Graduate Is Movement an Illusion in the Quantum Field?

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Graduate SU(3) symmetry and simple zeros of w. f.

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Graduate What are weight spaces and how do they relate to the representation of SU(2)?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics & Gravity: Is There a Connection?

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Graduate Microcausality in algebraic QFT

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Graduate How Does Max Tegmark's Multiverse Theory Influence Human Decision-Making?

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Graduate Afshar experiment questions - PROPONENTS only:P

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Graduate Time-dependant Schrödinger Equation Help.

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Graduate Quantum sensor and units issue

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Graduate Magnetic Quantum No: Angular Momentum, Electron Orbit Orientation

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Graduate Metric tensor, infitesimal transformation

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Graduate Degree of Freedom: Explaining n,l & m Quantum Numbers

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Graduate Spin 1/2 vs Spin 2: Does 360 Degrees Change?

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Graduate When Is a Quantum Field Theory Exactly Solved?

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