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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 How Can Visualizations Enhance Your Understanding of Quantum Spin Observables?

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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 Symmetric Potentials - Eigenstates & Ground States

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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?

  • Uncle Al
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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 Electric Dipole Transition: Selection Rules & n Transition

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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 Movement of Electrons: Spin or Orbit?

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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 Advice for High School Student's Quantum Mechanics Assignment

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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 Physical meaning for wavefunction

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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 Angular Momentum Expectation Values help for noobie

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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: Peskin & Shroeder Pg 63

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

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Graduate Why does Lorentz Force law work?

  • Brock
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Graduate Does Compton Effect Formula Follow Original Derivation?

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Graduate Can Quantum Interference Be Explained Solely by Self-Interaction of Photons?

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

  • pellman
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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 Quantum Foam: Exploring the Gravitational Effects of Virtual Particles in Space

  • Art
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Bizarre theory-Could there be any truth in this?

  • Liger20
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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 Cell Phones & Cancer: Examining Interaction Mechanisms

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Graduate Permutation Operator: Understanding & Application

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Graduate Creating Electrons: A Question from Feyman

  • quantumfireball
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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 Question: Why Quantum Computing Uses 1 & 0?

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Graduate Artificial atoms used to improve compact discs?

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Graduate In QM operators, why [YPz,YPx]=0, [ZPy,ZPy]=0 [X,Py]=0 [Y,Pz]=0, etc

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Graduate Time-dep perturbation theory

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Graduate How to work in the momentum representation?

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Graduate Testing Hermiticity: How to Prove it?

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Graduate Virtual Photons as Force Carriers

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Graduate Quantum physics with Green's functions

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Graduate Can a Quantum State Have Time-Dependent Eigenvalues?

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Graduate System of hydrogen atoms in an electric field

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Graduate Why are particles in quantum field theory discrete?

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Graduate Why does spin 0 have to be a true scalar?

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Graduate Four-Photon Entanglement: Is a "Pure" State Possible?

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Graduate Does the Four Fermion Interaction Conserve Current Like Standard Models?

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Graduate Proving the Spin Half Nature of Dirac Quanta

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