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Graduate Gravitational Effects of Wave-Particle Duality in C60 Molecules

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Graduate The Size of Photons: Experiments and Results

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Graduate Theory of interactions, theory of collisions?

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Moon's Potential to Jump Locations?

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Graduate Hydrogen Degeneracy: Qualitative Explanation

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Graduate Probability expectations -> measurement outcomes

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Graduate Basic question about Pauli Rotations

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Graduate Angular momentum coupling - worked out examples?

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Graduate Jumping between quantized values

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Graduate Is Renormalisation Unique for Physically Measurable Quantities?

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Graduate Commutators, Lie groups, and quantum systems

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Graduate Can the Potential Energy of an Electron in a Hydrogen Atom be Measured?

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Undergrad C = 299 792 458 m/s and uncertainty

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Graduate Problem understanding particle/wave duality and quantum jump

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Graduate Photon absorption by an accelerated atom

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Graduate Particle-Wave duality and Hamilton-Jacobi equation

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Graduate What is physical meaning of anticommuting, not anticommuting operators

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Graduate Energy vs Information: Uncovering the Correlation

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Graduate Does anyone know any books, websites, lecture notes etc on S-matrix?

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Graduate Quantization Rules: Momentum, Energy & Angular Momentum

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Graduate Pauli Principle: Exploring Its Deeper Basis & Photon Emission

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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect contradiction

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Graduate Is Quantum Field the Fundamental Structure of the Universe?

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Graduate Accuracy of Black Hole Radiation Equation on Wikipedia

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Undergrad Atom struture : opaque and Transparent

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High School Planck's constant, basic understanding help

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Graduate Temperature in Quantum Systems: Meaning & Impact

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Graduate Energy Definition: Quantum Mechanics Explained

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Graduate What Are Anyons and How Do They Fit Into Particle Types?

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Graduate Storing an Image with a Single Photon: Quantum Mechanics at Work

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Graduate Perturbation theory and Path integrals.

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High School Is Wave Particle Duality Relevant to Everyday Objects Like Baseballs?

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Graduate The logic of Quantum Mechanics

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High School How Can You Start Learning Quantum Physics Before A-Levels?

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Undergrad Unlock the Basics of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Centric Guide for Self-Learning"

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Graduate Could Unbihexium Unlock Mysteries of Quantum Gravity Measurement?

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Graduate Using photons to detect electrons and vice versa

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Graduate Does the Wavefunction Propagate at Finite Speed or Instantaneously?

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Graduate Are so-called non-local interactions really non-local?

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Graduate Statistical Mixture of N States in the Hartree-method.

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Graduate Review of Local Hidden Variable Theories

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Graduate Quantum probability versus entropy

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Graduate Photon Characteristics: How Particles Behave When Split

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Undergrad Frequency or wavelength of a photon

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Graduate Complex Exponents: QM Basics & Physical Importance

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Graduate Ideal Diode Equation: Research & Calc for Non-Linear Activity

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Graduate Ultraviolet Catastrophe / Rayleigh-Jeans Black Body Cavity

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Graduate Where are the missing de-broglie waves?

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Graduate Electron orbits, QM, Exclusion Principle and location

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Graduate Role of phase in quantum measurement

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Graduate Probability of quantum tunnelling

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Graduate What is the New Twist on Double Slit Double Slit?

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Graduate Schroedinger's cat: half-alive and half-dead

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Graduate What's the best book/website on the Dirac equation?

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Graduate Kerr Pre-Measurement vs Bell's Inequality

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Graduate EPR entanglement & quarter wave plate

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Undergrad Who was there to observe the early universe?

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Graduate What happen when photon passing through highly charged field?

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Graduate Explaining the electric fields of particles

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Graduate Understanding Light: Wave to Particle

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Graduate Why do we need a quantum theory of gravity? What would it do?

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Graduate Layman Reflection on Classical and Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad What Does the deBroglie Wave Represent in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Help me understand how does Pauli's exclusion principle work

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Graduate Schrodinger eqn. and its relativistic generalisations

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Graduate Hey guys I have an interesting topic for all of you who interested

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Graduate Can Antimatter Really Travel Back in Time According to Feynman's Theory?

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Graduate What is spin? (advanced question)

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Graduate Dirac Postulate: Understanding Measurement in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Help with expected value of non-hermitian operators

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Graduate Slit Experiment vs Schrodinger's Cat

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Graduate Understanding the Imaginary Component in Spherical Harmonics

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Graduate Unification makes me wonder what things we would actually understand

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Graduate What is the Role of the Dynamic Quantum Vacuum in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate What is the relationship between atomic clocks and particle waves?

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Graduate Can John Cramer's Experiment Really Demonstrate Retrocausality?

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Graduate 4 the question related to double slit experimetn

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Graduate LC Model of an Atom: Exploring Inductance & Capacitance

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Undergrad Speed of light and quantum question?

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Graduate Has quantum mechanics changed since the big bang?

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Graduate Paradox of Angular Momentum: Necessity of \hbar=0?

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Undergrad I this formula is true according to Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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Graduate Yang-Mills Field Strength Tensor

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High School Distances of electrons in the shell

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Graduate Question about what the bleep do we know and superposition of a particle.

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Graduate Understanding Single Particle Interference in Quantum Physics

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Graduate What happens in the middle of a Feynmann Diagram?

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Graduate Probability Distribution Function, H-atom

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Graduate History of Physics: Why is it Important?

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Graduate Probability of Measuring Two-State System in State |2>

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Undergrad Light Quantisation: Hydrogen vs Normal Bulb

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Graduate How Does Quantum Mechanics Combine Particle and Wave Descriptions?

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Graduate Is Complex Scaling in Quantum Mechanics Fully Understood?

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Graduate Can HUP Explain the Instant Emission of Photoelectrons?

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Graduate Reflection and Quantization of Energy Levels

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Graduate Question about schrodinger equation

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Graduate Calculating Variational Integral W(c) for STO-1G H-Atom

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Graduate Is the Hydrogenic Rydberg atom just a proton with an ionized electron at n=100?

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