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Graduate Why does theta transform as exp(-i alpha)*theta under U_R(1)?

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Graduate How is the conjugate momentum defined in the Schrödinger picture of QFT?

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Graduate Hidden Variable: The Role of Genetics and Parents in Twins

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Graduate Why Don't Electrons Fall into the Nucleus Despite the Coulomb Force?

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Graduate Is there no energy conservation?

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Undergrad Majorana Equation Explained for Newbies

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Graduate Can a particle be anywhere if time is infinitely divisible?

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Graduate Divergence of a partition function

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Graduate Degenerate perturbation theory with α=0, β=1 in Griffiths

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Graduate Atom's Place and Speed: A Curious Question

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Undergrad Interference Pattern: Non-Laser Light Sources

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Graduate Can a single proton be trapped in a Penning trap? And what happens to it?

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Graduate When does degeneracy occur in a 3D rectangular box with unequal sides?

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Graduate 2 slit trouble with vapor trails

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Graduate Understanding Wavepacket Spreading in QM

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Graduate Can Self-Study Clarify Basic Quantum Mechanics Concepts?

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Graduate Does quantum pair creation violate conservation of energy?

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High School Does light have mass if it carries momentum and gravity bends it?

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Graduate Central Potential: Eigenstates Depend on Coordinates

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Graduate DOes the trace determine the Hamiltonian

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Graduate N=2 Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate How Do Commutation Relations Fit into the Concept of a Lie Algebra?

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Graduate Explicit formula the nth eigenfunctions of the quantum harmonic oscillator?

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Graduate How Does Size Influence Quantum Phenomena?

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High School Position of elementary particles

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Graduate Solution to nonlinear field equations

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Graduate Phase of an Amplitude Function

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Graduate Probability of classically forbidden region

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Graduate Physical significance of othogonality condition?

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Graduate Composite Hilbert Spaces and Operators

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Graduate Eigenfunctions in Hilbert Space, Infinite Square Wells and Uncertainty

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Undergrad Can protons and neutrons be streamed in beams like electrons in a CRT?

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Graduate Relation between spin and its magnetic field

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Graduate Looking for introduction on QND: quantum non-demolition measurements

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Graduate What is the theoretical proof of the quantization of the energy of the EM field?

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Graduate Do the Particle and Associated Wave Always Move in the Same Direction?

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Graduate What is a "structure-less particle"?

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Graduate Definition for the term gauge symmetry

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Graduate Theoretical Limit on Frequency?

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Graduate An attempt to the Unified Theory of Physics.

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Graduate How does TDPT handle time dependent perturbations?

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Graduate My fundamental misunderstandings of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Two experiments on the Wave-Particle duality

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Undergrad Does photon have upper limit energy ?

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Graduate Proving that sums and products of hermitian operators are hermitian

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Graduate Bremsstrahlung near the cutoff frequency, experimental data

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Graduate Probability in relation to distance

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Graduate Finding clear explanations of ladder operators

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Graduate Questions concerning Decoherence and Entanglement

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Graduate Conditional probabilities in QM

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Undergrad Can Noble Gases Be Combined for More Vibrant Colors?

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Undergrad Bohr radius for single electron orbits

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Graduate How Can Static Fields Be Effectively Handled in Quantum Field Theory?

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High School What is an alternative reality in physics?

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Graduate Constructing a conserved current from Lorentz invariance

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Graduate Info in nanotechnology, optical tweezers

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Graduate Relation between symmetry, charges and one-particle states

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Symmetry Breaking

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Graduate Eigenfunctions of Excited States: Why Orthogonal?

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Graduate Wave particle duality confusion

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Graduate Rigorous Determination of Bosonic and fermoinic commutation relation

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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Erasure

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Graduate Solve Ernest S. Abers problems

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Graduate Bohr Model missing momentum question

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Conan - Conan and Jim Carrey Talk Quantum Physics

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Graduate Energy levels for the Hydrogen Atom

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Graduate Do quantum mechanical descriptions deal with forces on particles?

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Graduate Parallel Universes and Quantum Computing

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Graduate Why does matrix element ratio determine 4-vector structure?

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Graduate Is quantum mechanics applicable to blackholes?

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Undergrad Talk about electrons, double slit, interface patterns

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Graduate Proof that FTL communication quantum protocol is impossible?

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Graduate Photoelectric effect: a recreative quiz

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Graduate Measuring particle position and velocity

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Graduate Eigenvalues of J_2 + K_1; -J_1 + K_2

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Graduate Can you derive the Schrödinger equation from first principles?

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Graduate Planck's oscillators and the energy assumption

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Graduate Bell experiment would somehow prove non-locality and information FTL?

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Graduate Can the wavefunction of a particle determine its position in space?

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Graduate Questions Concerning Static and Dynamic Properties

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Graduate Why does measurement collapse the wave function in the double-slit experiment?

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Graduate Cheating a faster than light signal.

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Graduate Probability in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Infrared Heating: How It Works

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Undergrad Finding the energy of an electron in a particular orbit

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Graduate Does a photon interact with itself in double slit experiments?

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High School How is quantum physics applied in our daily lives?

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Graduate Is light related to time and the fourth dimension?

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Graduate Probability conservation and symmetry

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Graduate Gravity a result of procession of time?

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Graduate What happens to the Kinetic Energy during tunneling?

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High School I am very new to quantum physics. Want to know how photons move.

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Foundations of Physics, the magazine, open access articles.

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Graduate Ether before relativity in quantum theory also

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Graduate Is D-Wave's quantum computer the real deal?

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Graduate Sequential Stern-Gerlach filters at perpendicular angles

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Undergrad How does a photon move if it's a particle with frequency?

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Graduate What is electron spin and intrinsic spin of elementary particles?

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