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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 Does gravity have quantum particles like photons?

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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 Wave packet reflection and tunneling through a finite barrier

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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 How do n, l, and m specify the electron's degrees of freedom?

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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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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?

  • TimH
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Graduate Gauge derivative calculation in Zee's QFT on page 236

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Graduate How Do Energy Levels Interact When They Are Quantized?

  • Thyme
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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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Is this physics 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?

  • Gerenuk
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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 Is time quantized or continuous?

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Graduate Would quantum mechanics change if atoms were scaled differently?

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High School What is negative energy and how could it enable faster-than-light travel?

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Graduate What is the true nature of photons and can they be split?

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Graduate Why must wavefunctions be complex rather than real?

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Graduate Difference between J and l quantum numbers in rotation

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Undergrad Simple quantum experiments with everyday equipment

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Graduate Semiclassical properties of 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 if two particles come within their Schwarzschild radius?

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

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Graduate Can entanglement in time explain the arrow of time and change?

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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 How do physicists derive the Planck time?

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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 How can light have a frequency and how do you change it?

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Undergrad What is cutoff potential in the photoelectric effect?

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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 Electron gun creates n possible paths, slits select which ones reach screen

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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 What is a spin Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Does pilot wave theory violate Bell's inequality?

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

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

  • rohanprabhu
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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?

  • madiyaan
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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 Models of photon 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?

  • rohanprabhu
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Graduate When is the Hamiltonian a matrix versus a differential operator?

  • Tanja
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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?

  • Himanshu
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Graduate Why does electron have wave property

  • mdeng
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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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