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Graduate What books do you recommend for reference?

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Graduate That queer experiment; what is its limit?

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Graduate You cannot derieve Schrödinger Equation .

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Graduate Question on Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in QFT Final

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Graduate Mathematical definition of state ket expansion as integral of operators

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Graduate Non-linear Replacements for QM

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Graduate Is there such a thing as position entanglement?

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Graduate Phase space: a one-to-one mapping with all quantum dynamics?

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Undergrad Tools for drawing Feynman diagrams

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Graduate Can the Reality of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function be Falsified?

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Graduate Where Can I Find Rigorous Developments of the Path Integral Formulation?

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Graduate (maybe) simple calculation question

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Graduate Momentum of a photon and Einstein

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Graduate Clebsch-Gordan calculator tool

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Graduate Understanding Renormalization in Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate What does 'observe' mean in quantum physics?

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Graduate Addition Theorem for Spherical Harmonics

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Graduate Researchers Develop Quantum Processor

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Graduate Disappearing and reappearing at the other side of the wall

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Graduate Y: Calculating Expectation Value of O with Orthonormal State

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Graduate A few thoughts on entanglement

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Graduate Rigorous Intro to QM: Best Books for Learning

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Graduate Can Anything Explain No Matter = No Photon?

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Graduate What are the units of a wave function

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Graduate What causes photon diffraction through thin air?

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Graduate Some my puzzles of coincidence counting

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Graduate Is QED a standard graduate physics course or optional?

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Graduate Question on observables of QFT

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Graduate What happens when electron energy equals potential in a step potential?

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Graduate Could Proton Microscopes Revolutionize Imaging with Their Smaller Wavelength?

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Graduate How Quantum Teleportation work ?

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Graduate Does Randell Mills' hydrino process produce energy from hydrogen?

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Graduate Mass is converted into energy which appears as Binding Energy

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Graduate Quantum superpostion, determinability, and existance of virtual particles

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Graduate What is the real double-slit experiment with quartz crystals?

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Graduate I hope I'm not bothering anybody here

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Graduate What is quantum chaos?

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Graduate Do charged particles create fields or are they one and the same in QM?

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Graduate A question on measurment in QM

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Graduate Deterministic quantum mechanics?

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Graduate A neutron star collapses - where's pauli?

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Graduate Is incandescence a purely quantum phenomenon?

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Graduate Wave Function Collapse in Quantum Mechanics: Understanding Probability

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Graduate Why can't quantum field theory calculate bound states satisfactorily?

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Graduate How many famous paradoxes in Quantum Mechanic?

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Graduate Hyperentanglement demonstrated

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Graduate Does any linear unitary operator stand for a symmetry transformation?

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Graduate Why can't I walk through walls and what is field-mediated repulsion?

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Graduate Standard references for algebraic quantum theory and noncommutative topology

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Graduate Schroedinger's test-tube babies

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Graduate Hamiltonian of a spin 1/2 particle in a constant mag. field

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Graduate Exploring the Unitarity Problem in Non-Renormalizable Theories

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Graduate Why don't lower energy photons sometimes produce a neutrino-antineutrino pair?

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Graduate What causes a particle to go into superposition?

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Graduate Learning at college about wave partile duality

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Graduate Does Pair Creation = Bremsstrahlung?

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Graduate When a free proton captures a free electron

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Graduate Vacuum Polarization - Why invoked?

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University of Australia Slows Light to 670 mph

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Graduate How Does Quantum Field Theory Explain Vacuum Energy and Momentum?

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Graduate Everything in nature is truly random and unpredictable

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Graduate Debroglie wavelength of a baseball

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Graduate Kinetic energy change in virtual photon exchange

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Graduate What do the terms in Heisenberg's matrices represent?

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Graduate What causes the arrow of time ?

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Graduate What Brian Greene meant by dimensions and parallel universes?

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Graduate Why the name Second Quantization ?

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Graduate Solving Shrodinger Equation for Hawking Radiation

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Graduate A question on momenta of electrons

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Graduate QED vs Point Charge of the Electron

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High School What is correct write about photon?

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Undergrad Wave-Particle Duality of Light

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Graduate Why Is the Wave Function of Photons Considered a Physical Wave?

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics Book for First Year Physics Students

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Graduate Uncertainty theory doesn't disprove fate?

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Graduate What Are the Quantum Forces Behind Diffusion Phenomena?

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Graduate Where can I find J. Bell's book on Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What happens when photons accumulate in an enclosed vacuum?

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Graduate Does violation of Bell's inequality imply faster-than-light communication?

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Graduate What is electric charge at the fundamental level?

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Undergrad Articles on modern physics phenomena

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Graduate How is adiabatic invariant proved in a simple dynamic system?

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Graduate Is the Gedanken Data on Quantum Entanglement Available Online?

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Graduate Can Penrose's Felix experiment prove the role of gravity in objective collapse?

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Graduate Clearing the Misconception on Light's Wave-Particle Duality

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Graduate What does particle spin mean when we say s=1, 1/2, etc?

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Graduate Photon bunching in quantum optics

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Graduate Is there a proof for Fermi and Bose statistics?

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Graduate Proof of non-locality indep. of conservation law

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Graduate A trick to solve functional integraltion?

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Graduate Does wave-particle duality arise from quantized space-time?

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Graduate Does a controversy still exist ?

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Graduate Layman's definition of CM and QM?

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Graduate Can a complex potential have real energies?

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Undergrad Harmonic Oscillator: Lowest Allowed Energy Not E=0?

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Where did Will 'O The Wisp Go?

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What is a unit in physics?

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Graduate Does a photon have a spatial envelope, and how many oscillations fit within it?

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Graduate What Are the Core Equations of Quantum Mechanics Contradicting Relativity?

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Graduate Finding Wave Function Collapse

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