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

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Graduate An electron's wave properties?

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Graduate Producing EB Waves: Accelerating and Decelerating Particles

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Graduate Calculation Showing M_mu_nu Representation of Lorentz Generators

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Graduate The role of wave function in QED

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Graduate What's the difference between probability and probability density

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Undergrad Where Can I Find a Quality Online Intro to Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What Role Do Calabi-Yau Spaces Play in String Theory?

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Graduate Hi, can i know two phenomena related to quantum physics ?

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Is a Quantum Computer Possible? A Critical Look at Recent Claims

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Graduate Why is a QM wave function not normalizable

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Graduate Why does quantum mechanics not marry with the theroy of relativity

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Undergrad Schrödinger's cat paradox explaination

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Graduate Basic - Trying to understand a probability wave

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Undergrad Is there a Limit to How Cold Matter Can Get?

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Graduate Canonical Bose-Einstein statistics

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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 Deriving e^(-iAx) = cos(x)I + isin(x)A for Pauli matrices

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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 Is information a reduction of energy in quantum uncertainty relations?

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Graduate S-matrix poles as bound states in quantum physics

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Graduate Why are momentum, energy and angular momentum quantized in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Why does the Pauli exclusion principle apply only to fermions?

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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 What atomic structure determines transparency and photon emission frequency?

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High School Why does Planck's constant have the value 6.63×10−34?

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Graduate What does temperature mean in a quantum system?

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Graduate How is energy defined in quantum mechanics?

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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 Learning quantum mechanics with a math-focused approach

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Graduate Measuring gravity with quantum mechanics using lead

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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 What causes photon parts to behave similarly when split and reform?

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Undergrad Frequency or wavelength of a photon

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Graduate Why does the complex phase matter if probability stays the same?

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Graduate Ideal diode equation and nonlinear behavior under reverse bias

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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 Quarter wave plate effect on EPR polarization entanglement

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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 Do changing magnetic fields explain the electric fields of subatomic 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 Why quantum mechanics predicts ensembles better than single particles

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Undergrad What Does the deBroglie Wave Represent in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate How do fermions know which quantum states are occupied?

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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 Can expectation values be defined for non-Hermitian operators?

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Graduate Slit Experiment vs Schrodinger's Cat

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Graduate Physical interpretation of imaginary parts 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 Can a hydrogen atom be modeled as an LC circuit?

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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 Angular momentum and azimuthal angle commutation on periodic domains

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Undergrad I this formula is true according to Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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