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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 What does 'wave' mean in wavefunctions and de Broglie wavelength?

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Graduate How do photons have wavelength if light is particle-like?

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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 Does zero-point energy relate to quantum foam?

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Graduate Entanglement Effects in Relativistic Reference Frames

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Graduate Getting Into Quantum Physics: Is It Difficult?

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Photons at same place at the same time

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Graduate A paradox about Heisneberg Uncertainty ?

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Graduate Uncertainty: Measuring Electron Position w/o Light

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Graduate Non Commutative Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Questions on Line Spectra, Orbitals and Radiation

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Undergrad The Photoelectric Effect question

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Graduate Symmetries and conserved quantities

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Graduate I won't debate on the wavefunction collapse

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Graduate Weinberg Paper: Understanding Two Loop Corrections for Gravitational Force

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Graduate How we interpret quantum physics

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Graduate Probability current versus electric current

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Graduate What is the energy loss of a solid sphere hitting a wall obliquely?

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Undergrad What are some recommended introductory books on quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Black lines in elements' emission spectra

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Graduate Visualizations of spin observables Sx, Sy, Sz and their relationships

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Graduate What are the fundamental mathematics behind path integrals in QM?

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Graduate What Is the Significance of the Fine Structure Constant 1/137?

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Graduate What are generalized probability functions?

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Graduate Is the Screen an Observer in the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Distinguishability of electrons separated by large distances

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Graduate Why are eigenstates symmetric or antisymmetric for symmetric potentials?

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Graduate Recursion relation for C-G coefficients

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Undergrad What is a good introductory book for quantum physics?

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Graduate Energy levels in quantum well structures

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Graduate What Is the Fine Structure Constant in Physics?

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Graduate Decay length of Half Square Well

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Graduate Is Quantum Physics an Epistemology or an Ontology?

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Graduate Does de Sitter General Relativity Offer a New Approach to Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Do Electrons Orbit the Nucleus Like Planets?

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Graduate Confirming the Correlation of Quantum States and Lowest Quantum Numbers

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Graduate Why Should We Revisit Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity?

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Graduate Time Elapsed Through Earth's Tunnel: Clock Drop Experiment

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Can Comedy Simplify Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Quantum number and wave vector

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Graduate Raising and lowering operators for spin

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Graduate Do selection rules for electric dipole transitions constrain n changes?

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Graduate An irreducible representation of

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Graduate Momentum Eigenstates in 1D Infinite Square Well

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High School Do electrons spin or orbit around the nucleus?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.

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Graduate What Does "Size" Mean for Electrons and Protons?

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Graduate Numerical calculation of tunneling probability

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Graduate Does Natural Hydrogen Exist in a Stable Ground State?

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Graduate What does this state collapse into after the measurement?

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Graduate Has FTL communication really never been tested in this way?

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Graduate How Does Angular Dependence Arise in a Spherical Symmetric Potential?

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Graduate Logical Rational for spooky-action @ at distance

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Undergrad Electronic structure of the atoms

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Graduate Organizing a high school quantum mechanics research paper

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Graduate Understanding Bell's Inequality & Theorem

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Graduate One Photon from coil and battery

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Graduate Exchange of photons/virtual photons and electrostatic or EM force

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Graduate Why does a wave equation predict wavefunction evolution in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Compton Scattering from bound electrons

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Graduate Massive boson propagator - problem with step in derivation

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Graduate Periodic Potential: Diff. Eq. Solutions

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Graduate How Are the Failures of Equipartition Theory Linked to Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Neutrinos going through neuclei?

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Graduate Is the Many Minds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Widely Accepted?

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Graduate Finding <Lx²> + <Ly²> for particle in state with l=3, m=+2

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Graduate Why Does the First Order Term in QED Scattering Matrix Give No Contribution?

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Graduate Can a Quantum Computer Solve NP-Hard Problems in Infinite Parallel Computing?

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Graduate Integrating over all possible fields

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Graduate The dimension of the fine structure constant

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Graduate Which QM formalism is the most useful for understanding research papers?

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Graduate How Instantaneous is Quantum Entanglement?

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Graduate Fermion contraction notation and spinor indices in Peskin & Schroeder

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Undergrad Teleportation & EPR: Learn Basics & Get Readings on Paradox

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Graduate Why does Lorentz Force law work?

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Graduate Does Compton Effect Formula Follow Original Derivation?

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Graduate Do all light interference effects come from photon self-interaction?

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Graduate Density matrix off diagonal terms - what do they mean?

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Graduate Can I Predict the Lottery Draw Without Affecting the Universe's Wavefunction?

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Graduate Can You Generate Feynman Diagrams for Specific Perturbation Orders?

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Graduate Do virtual particles in the vacuum produce gravitational effects?

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Bizarre theory-Could there be any truth in this?

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Graduate Matrix of angular momentum operator

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Graduate Can measuring certain operators in a quantum system have deadly consequences?

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Graduate Why don't 850 MHz cell phone waves ionize atoms?

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Graduate How does a fixed permutation operator commute with antisymmetric sums?

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Graduate Creating Electrons: A Question from Feyman

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Graduate What happens when we measure H_x in an infinit potential well?

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Graduate Does this soda can anti-gravity trick have any validity?

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Undergrad Why do quantum computers still use bits instead of pure quantum states?

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