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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate A diatomic molecule rotating about it's axis of symetry
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Graduate What are Stephen Hawking's Theories?
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Graduate Identical Particles: Symmetry & Antisymmetry of Wave Function
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Graduate What Does the Atomic Model Look Like After the Quantum Revolution?
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Graduate Planck's constant on a time-energy wave chart
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: QM, QCD, QED Explained
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Graduate Unpaired Electrons: Reif's Thermo Book Explained
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Graduate Remark on electric charge Lorentz invariance
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Graduate Proving Wave-Particle Duality in Proton Twin Slit Experiment?
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Graduate QED Feynman (coupling number called j)
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Graduate Can We Define the Size of an Electron Theoretically or Experimentally?
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Graduate Electron indeterminism Problem
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Graduate Which is stronger? eletrical or magnetic fields?
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Graduate Can the semiclassical propagator be defined using a Hamilton-Jacobi equation?
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Graduate Recovering SE from Path integral
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and Wave Particle Duality
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Graduate Question about Hawking paradox.
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Graduate A few questions about the Bohr model
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Wave Packets: Manufacturing the Universe
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Graduate Remeasurement of a quantum system
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Graduate The Potential Well In Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Relativistic particle in a box
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Undergrad EM Spectrum Continuous or Discrete?
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Graduate Can positrons create a time-traveling chain reaction in vacuum?
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Graduate Definition of the dressed propagator
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Graduate Extracting Energy from the Casimir Effect
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Undergrad For proton and electron of identical energy encounter same potential
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Killed My Cat
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Graduate Questions in the quantum theory of radiation
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Graduate Rotating Dirac particle current
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Graduate What is the connection between Feynman's arrow and Schrödinger's psi?
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Graduate High Temperature Superconductivity: Can Two Electrons Interact?
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Graduate 3D harmonic oscillator ground state
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Graduate Why can't SR explain why electrons do not crash into the nucleus?
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Graduate What is the physical meaning of the position operator in QFT?
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Graduate Questions on Entanglement and Double-Slit Experiment
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Graduate Mass of Hydrogen Atom: Proton, Electron, & Binding Energy
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Graduate What Happens to an Electron During Quantum Tunneling?
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Graduate Photons from Electrons: Unanswered Physics Questions
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Graduate Twin slits; state preparation
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Graduate When does an accelerated electron not radiate?
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Graduate Does Spacetime Noncommutativity Extend to Macroscopic Scales?
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Graduate Electron Question: Is Electron a Superposition of Sizes?
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Graduate Is Angular Momentum Quantized Due to Non-Commutable Rotations?
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Graduate Particle in Box: Zero Probability Density at Certain Points
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Graduate What happens to a field after annihilation?
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Graduate Against Realism: Examining the Meaning of Local Realism
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High School Where photons will stop being themselves
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Graduate Age of a particle and related considerations
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Graduate Understanding Borel transform (sum) in QM
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Graduate Where can I find a good account of functional methods in QFT?
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Graduate Discover the Exp Operator Expansion Identity for Form-Based Operators
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Graduate Does Bohr's model of Hydrogen atom violate the uncertainty principle?
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Graduate Schrodinger's Black Hole: Can we ever know what happens inside?
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Graduate The Mystery of Particles in Two Places at Once
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator Operators?
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Undergrad Square of wave function gives us the probability density
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Graduate Photodetector in single-slit experiment
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Graduate I in understanding the measurement process.
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Graduate Debunking HUP explanation myth
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Graduate Linearity of Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Klein-Gordon vs Schrodinger-Fock Equation
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Graduate Interpreting the Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Does Wick Rotation Change the Physics in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Commutator of a density matrix and a real symmetric matix
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Graduate Virtual particles and velocities greater than C
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Graduate Commutation Relations: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Is the vacuum of space really devoid of 'everything'?
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Graduate Hermiticity and expectation value
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Graduate The Meaning of Purity in Entanglement
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Erasure Demystified
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Graduate Fundamental Process of an electron absorbing a photon
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Graduate Move over, quantum cryptography
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Graduate How Do Dipole Moments Affect Molecular Energy in Electric Fields?
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Graduate What is the explanation for the 25% probability in Bell's Gedanken Experiment?
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Undergrad Why do magnets attract or repel each other?
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Graduate Books for Quantum field theory?
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Graduate Finding Schrödinger & De Broglie's 1926 Quantum Physics Papers
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Effects on Particle 'b
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Graduate Does the Equivalence principle holds in QM.
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Graduate Teleportation (new Danish experiment with light and cesium atoms)
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Graduate QM: Time-Varying Forces & Potential Energy
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High School I hear a lot about nonlocality and it's relationship to QM
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Graduate Eading in many books that the unification of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Determinism?
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Graduate Fundamental process of a photon elastically scattering from an electon
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Graduate Hilbert space of direct products
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Graduate How Do Force Particles Like Photons and Gluons Exert Attraction?
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Graduate About violation of Bell's inequalities
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Graduate Why do symmetry and Hamiltonian operators commute?
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High School Particle & Wave Nature of EM Energy: Questions Answered
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Graduate How do we know a state function will stay normalized?
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Graduate Is the Relativistic Mass of Light Affecting Quantum Experiments?
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Graduate Solution of hydrogen atom : legendre polynomials
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Graduate 2-slits, 2-observers, 2-languages, 2-outcomes ?
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Graduate Reflection of a High-Energy Particle at a Potential Barrier
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Graduate Operators in a three level system
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Graduate Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects
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High School Protons + Neutrons + Electrons =?
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Graduate Is it true that unitary transform in QM corresponds to canonical transform
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