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Graduate KK Thermal Physics Ch4: A Peculiar Model of Photons

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Graduate Example of observing without absorbing needed

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Graduate What is the Smallest Quantum of Charge? - AJ

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Graduate What is the origin of vacuum fluctuations in quantum field theory?

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Graduate How Do Atomic Forces Influence Friction at the Quantum Level?

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Graduate Max Born and probability waves

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Graduate Will quantum computers ever be possible?

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Graduate Electron in a well: energies are quantized or not?

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Graduate Discreteness of Electron Orbits: Elliptical Shapes?

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Graduate What's going on between Alice and Bob?

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Graduate Understanding Zee's QFT: Simplified Gauge Derivative Calculation on Page 236

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Graduate How Do Energy Levels Interact When They Are Quantized?

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Graduate Space quantization of electron orbits ?

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Graduate Posulates of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Doublets Scalar Potential Question

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Readers’ Reactions: Is This Work Amusing?

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Be Generalized Beyond Bell's Theorem?

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Graduate Understanding Griffiths' Perturbation Theory in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Why/how electron spin conserved?

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Graduate First excite electrons into a higher state for lasers

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Graduate Can a Quantum Bouncing Ball Tunnel Through an Infinite Potential Barrier?

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Graduate Why Couldn't Einstein Accept Non-Locality?

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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Defy the Law of Conservation of Energy?

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Is There a Dedicated String Forum on This Site?

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Graduate How do you convert Planck's Radiation Formula into terms of wavelength?

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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Time: Examining Theories in Modern Physics

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Graduate How Does Our Understanding of Size Affect Quantum Mechanics?

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High School Unveiling the Mystery of Negative Energy and Transportation

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Graduate The Nature of Photons: Wave Packets, Existence & Manipulation

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Graduate Understanding the Complexity of Wavefunctions in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Unravelling the Mystery of J & l Quantum Numbers

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Undergrad Possible webpage title: Can You Perform Quantum Experiments at Home?

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Graduate Exploring Coherent States in the Quantum Oscillator

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Graduate Magnetic moment is an intrinsic property of elementary particles?

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Graduate What happens when two particles come within their Schwarzchild radius?

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Graduate Is There a Flaw in the Double Slit Experiment Theory?

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Graduate Is time entanglement the key to understanding the flow of time?

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Graduate Breaking quantum entanglement

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Undergrad Why can wave nature of light not explain photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Smallest Unit of Time: Planck Time Explained

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Graduate A few quantum mechanics problems

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Graduate Imagining particles, fields and interactions

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Graduate Determining uncertanity from the wave equation

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Graduate Using the energy of quantum oscillations

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Graduate Electron orbital angular momentum

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High School Frequency of Light: Explained & Examples

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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect: Explaining Cutoff Potential

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Graduate Why Does the 1-D Box Problem Present a Paradox in Momentum Eigenfunctions?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics of Rolling Balls: Learn More

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Graduate Understanding observables in QM

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Graduate Proposed Modification to Afshar's Experiment

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Graduate Understanding Physics: The Exchange of Virtual Photons

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Graduate Good introductions to quantum field theory and vacuum

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Graduate Understanding Vacuum Fluctuations Mathematically

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Graduate Quanta of massive vector fields

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Graduate Constructive Interference In Light

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Graduate Wave vs. Particle-Like Behavior

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Graduate Two-Slit & n-Slit Experiments: Explained

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Graduate What exactly does spin mean when talking about quantum physics?

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Graduate Deriving Schrodinger's Equation w/o Boundary Conditions

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Graduate Where Can I Find Translated Classical Papers on Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Maxwell distribution of kinetic energies

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Graduate General version of fermi-dirac distribution?

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Graduate Do All Electrons in a Molecular Orbital Share the Same Magnetic Quantum Number?

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Graduate Why Don't the Laws of Quantum Mechanics Work at Planck Scales?

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Undergrad Spin Hamiltonian Explained: Basics & Overview

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Graduate Pilot Wave Theory: A Viable Explanation for Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is the PDE for photons proposed by Bialynicki-Birula?

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Undergrad How can I do the double slit experiment with limited resources?

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Graduate Electrons are fired one by one in double slit-interference

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Graduate Is it possible to derive E=h f from E=h \nu in the theory of light quanta?

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High School Is it Possible? Laser Generated from Non-Absorbable Substances

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Graduate Confusion about eigenstates and wavefunctions.

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics 1D Harmonic Oscillator Simulator

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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?

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Graduate Quantum phenomena and the passage of time.

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Graduate What is the current understanding of the nature of photons?

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Graduate Understanding Photon: Models from Classical Physics to Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Why replace Hamiltonian with operator?

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Graduate Different versions of the uncertainty principle

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Undergrad Does intensity determine the occurrence of the photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Schrödinger equation: eigen value or differential equation

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Graduate What exactly is the definition of a "quantum event"?

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Graduate How Does Acceleration of Charged Particles Produce Electromagnetic Radiation?

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Graduate Why does electron have wave property

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Graduate Why is the Tr notation used in the Z=Tr(Exp(-bH)) equation for the Ising model?

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Graduate Is the Bohr model of the atom still valid in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate [Quick] States of interacting and non-interacting Hamiltonian

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Graduate Need Understandable Explanation Of Bell's Theorum

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Graduate Interaction term in path integral

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Graduate Can Photons Really Pop In and Out of Existence?

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Graduate The Semantics of Wave: Understanding the Wavefunction and De Broglie Wavelength

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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Questions & Answers

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Graduate What is the difference between entangled and normal photons?

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Undergrad Inelastic collision and ideal gas law

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Graduate In an experiment, do we measure the eigenvalue or expectation value?

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Graduate Renormalization, infinitesimal charges?

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Graduate Quantum fields are the basic constituents?

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Graduate Chern Simons Spin density as hidden variable.

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Graduate Explaining Zero-Point Energy & Quantum Foam

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