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Graduate A general math theory on the quantum harmonic oscillator?
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Graduate Quantum angle selectivity of polirizers filter
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Graduate Can Entangled Particles Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?
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Graduate Quantum Problem: Particle Motion Under Constraints and Christoffel Symbols
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Graduate Fermi Golden Rule tutorial
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Graduate Is there a minimum possible wavelength?
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Graduate What are the effects of quantum energy on macroscopic objects?
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Graduate Why Does the Bloch Sphere Use Theta Over Two for Qubit Representation?
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Graduate Entangled photons with adjustable path length asymmetry
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Undergrad Neutron Decay Into Proton: Hawking's New Book
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Graduate Why does detecting which slit breaks the interference pattern?
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Graduate Why does wave mechanics fit so nicely into inner product spaces?
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Graduate How Does a Flat Black Body Radiate Energy into a Hemisphere?
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Graduate Do Photons Have Different Rest Mass?
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Undergrad A few questions about particles.
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator, Ladder Operators, and Dirac notation
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Undergrad Intensity of light constantwhy rate of emission of electrons changes?
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Graduate How do you actually entangle two particles?
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Undergrad What is quantisation? Definition and examples?
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Graduate Uncertainty of when a photon is absorbed
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Graduate Why is electron probability density the square of the wave function?
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Graduate Godel incompletness related to physics?
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Graduate Does the delayed choice quantum eraser require a conscious observer?
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Graduate Measuring instant changes in particles
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Graduate Is State 1 the Cause of State 2 or Vice Versa?
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Graduate Question on observer created reality
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Graduate Tom Green says I'm wrong about Quantum Physics
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Graduate How does the evanescent wave in FTIR know a second prism exists?
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Graduate If position and momentum are uncertain, how is velocity defined?
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Graduate What Physics Formula Applies to Particles Smaller Than 10^-10?
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Graduate Is a changing frequency electromagnetic wave a force in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Why can WKB approximation only be applied to one-dimensional problems?
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Undergrad How is light experimentally proven to be a particle?
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Graduate Necessity of Continuous Wave Functions
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Graduate What is spin up and spin down?
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Graduate Why Is Classical Dirac's Field Considered to Have No Physical Meaning?
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Undergrad What does * mean and how is it used
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Undergrad Eigenvalues for particle in finite square well
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Graduate Does a particle's wavefunction change when bonded in a composite system?
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Graduate Can someone explain the Schrödinger equation?
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Graduate Finding English translations of de Broglie, Schrödinger and Heisenberg's original papers
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Graduate Why Does the Electron Not Fall Toward the Nucleus in QM?
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Graduate Wave function of composite particle vs constituent particles
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Graduate Local versus non-local interpretation of the EPR-Bohm experiment
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Graduate Quantization of EMR in charge acceleration
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Graduate How to find papers on imaginary action and tunneling
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Graduate Fundimental frequency of subatomic particles.
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Graduate Field operators in canonically transformed representations of the CCRs
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Graduate What will happen in the following scenario?
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment with Interference Patterns
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Undergrad Similarities/differences between EM waves and particle waves
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Graduate Statistical Quantum good question
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Graduate What Happened to Heisenberg's Constant in Planck Units?
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Graduate Minimum energy for a spin flip?
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Graduate Does quantum probability come from hidden information or fundamental uncertainty?
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Graduate No experiment can be repeated? (2 questions)
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Graduate How much does the uncertainty in position increase with time?
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Graduate What is the role of time evolution in the behavior of different types of waves?
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Questions and Answers
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Graduate How long do photons live not in a vacum?
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Graduate Non-local Realistic theories disproved
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Graduate How Many People Actually Understand QM?
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and spacetime
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Graduate Why probilities and not definates.
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Graduate If, as Richard Feyman insisted, nobody understands quantum mechanics
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Graduate Fourier transform limited photons?
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Graduate How is a particle's spin detected in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Defining locality through algorithmic formulations of quantum mechanics
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Graduate WKB and perturbation theory.
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Graduate Renormalization differential equation ?
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High School Life Span of a Photon - Photonics.com
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Graduate Thermal equilibration of a quantum system
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Graduate Tunneling electrons through a magnetic dielectric
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Graduate Does m_s plus m_l equal m_j for angular momentum quantum numbers?
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Graduate How does coherence in superpositions relate to coherent light?
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Graduate The potential step and Tunneling
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Graduate How would you define Frequency in terms of quantum model?
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Graduate Polarizers spectrum selectivity
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Graduate Measuring two dynamic quantitites
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Graduate Proving Symmetry of Solutions in 1D Potential
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Graduate If all He atoms are in the ground state, is the universe at absolute zero?
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Graduate Values of the agular momentum quantum number
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Graduate Common myths in quantum mechanics and their counterarguments
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Graduate What Are Coherent States and Their Relation to Perfect Solutions?
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Graduate Can an Infinite Potential Barrier Conserve Energy in Real Life Scenarios?
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Graduate Standard deviation of expectation values
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Graduate Does a long optical cable through one slit affect Young's double slit interference?
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Graduate Are tunneling electrons deflected oppositely in magnetic fields?
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Graduate Why is helicity a good quantum number if it's not Lorentz invariant?
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Graduate Quantum coherence in photosynthetic light harvesting
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Graduate Why do light particles behave like waves?
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High School A question and theory about light
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Graduate Something that's bothered me for a while
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Graduate Does this hold in general ? (as an approximation only)
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Graduate Position vs. Harmonic basis for solving S.E.
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Graduate Functional integral (semiclassic formula)
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Graduate Questions About Electromagnetic Radiation from Electricl Discharge
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Graduate Is time quantized like frequency?
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Undergrad Why is the average moment of a dipole zero?
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Undergrad Integers in Bohr's atomic theory
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