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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 Why is negative potential energy mass external to particles, not distributed in them?

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Graduate What Happens to an Electron During Quantum Tunneling?

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Graduate How does an electron emit a photon?

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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 Is 'local realism' a meaningful term in Bell's Theorem?

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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 Exponential operator expansion for exp(ÂB̂)

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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 Can a particle be 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 Wavefunction collapse in position, momentum and energy measurements

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Graduate Why the photon-electron thought experiment doesn't derive the uncertainty principle

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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 Where to find Schrödinger's 1926 quantum mechanics papers and De Broglie's duality proof

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Graduate Does destroying particle a make particle b's state unknown again?

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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 How does QM handle time-varying forces without 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 How can light travel through vacuum if waves need a medium?

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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 Deriving the orthogonality relation for Legendre polynomials

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Graduate 2-slits, 2-observers, 2-languages, 2-outcomes ?

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Graduate Why do quantum and classical particles both transmit through a potential step when E > V?

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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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High School What Is an Electron?

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Graduate What is the phenomenon of synchronized electron orbits?

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Graduate Learning QFT from Peskin and Schroeder

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Graduate The vacuum in QFT. What is it. Why have it. Does everyone believe in it?

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Graduate Does the time arrow depend on energy loss rather than entropy?

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Graduate Can a screen both measure spin and show interference patterns?

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Graduate Born Conditions on Wavefunctions

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Graduate Walk Through Walls - Wave Variance and You

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Undergrad Resonance square experiment with wave function

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Graduate Can wall patterns change after erasing which-slit information later?

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Graduate Probability of zero in stationary wave state

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Graduate How can the particle fit in the well then?

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Graduate Do Particles Always Follow Fixed Laws in the Universe?

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Graduate Wave/Particle duality experiment?

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Spin Orbit Coupling

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Graduate The time before sentient beings

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Graduate Fowler Nordheim Tunnelling -

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Graduate Why does quadrature error propagation differ from linear propagation?

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Graduate Speed of universe and quantum theory

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Graduate Double slit experiment with macroscopic size objects

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics for Military Officers

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Graduate Wien's displacement law. A paradox

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Graduate Minimum Uncertainty Wavefunction

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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator with fermions

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High School Visualizing the Atom: Find a Way to See Inside

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