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Graduate Finding Wave Function Collapse

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Graduate Intermediate qm what should i know

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Graduate Requirements of All Hidden Variable Theories

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Graduate Draw graphs for self-energy and Vertex functions

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Virtual Particles - Is it True?

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Graduate Attempts to make the Born rule emerge explicitly from outcome counting

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Graduate Field Quantization: SHOs vs Bounded States

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Graduate How Can Renormalization Methods Remove Singularities in Divergent Series?

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Undergrad Why did Stern and Gerlach use a non-uniform magnetic field in their experiment?

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Graduate Is hf=mc2 a Valid Equation in Physics?

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Graduate Entanglement of common cosmological origin?

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Graduate Dirac Contraction: Evaluating Propagators at Same Point

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Graduate What amplitude does the Bethe-Salpert equation describe?

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Graduate Zero Point Enery Field Manipulator

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Graduate What is zero point energy and does Copenhagen interpretation imply God exists?

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Graduate Why classical models cannot explain atomic spectra

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Graduate Can I post my light theory on Physics Forums?

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Graduate Quantum mechanics and classical physics

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Graduate What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and quantum field theory?

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Graduate Electric dipole selection rules

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Graduate Time dependent Schrödinger equation for two-state systems

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Graduate Calculating Vacuum Polarization Effect on Hydrogen Atom

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Graduate Non disturbing (?) measurement

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Graduate How can electrodynamics prove the stability of electron

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Graduate A new nonlinear Schrodinger equation

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Graduate How do quarks rearrange in beta decay?

  • Ryan Lucas
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Graduate Exact calculation of tunneling current?

  • QMrocks
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Graduate Schrödinger equation: P(r)>1 ?

  • Kruger
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Graduate Finding "Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theories

  • Neitrino
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Graduate Creating 3 Photon Entanglement with PDC: Can it be Done?

  • DrChinese
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Graduate What counts as a measurement in QM?

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Graduate What's the Flaw with Classical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics?

  • dama
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Graduate Planck Temperature: Is It The Upper Limit?

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Graduate Average electric field amplitude and volume of an atomic photon

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Graduate Can you measure an objects spin or position, or polarization

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Graduate Entanglement with more than two particles

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Undergrad Can Planck's constant determine whether to use quantum or classical mechanics?

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Graduate Hamiltonian with complex potential

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Graduate Can Instantaneous Action at a Distance Exist Within Planck Time Limits?

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Graduate Why Does Inserting a Mass Width Simulate Higher Order Diagram Effects?

  • EL
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Graduate Is QM Inherently Non-local in EPR and Bell Discussions?

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Graduate Imaginary Momentum: Physical Interpretation of Bound States

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Graduate Electric field produced by electron

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Graduate What role does the delta function play in quantum mechanics and field theory?

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Undergrad Where to learn quantum mechanics with A-level physics and GR background

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Graduate David Asks: Does Beckenstein's Law Work Both Ways?

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Graduate Feynman Rules for Phi to the 6th theory

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Graduate Is there any validity to the disproof of quantum physics theory?

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Graduate Fields in quantum field theory

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Graduate Divergent series in perturbation theory of quantum field theory

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Graduate Why must wavefunctions be continuous with continuous derivatives?

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Graduate How does time function in quantum mechanics and its multiverse implications?

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Graduate Hydrino's and Blacklight Power

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Graduate How does an electron transition generate a photon as an electromagnetic loop?

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Undergrad Understanding Photon Momentum and Radiation Pressure

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Graduate Is the density matrix a better way of describing quantum states than spinors?

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Graduate Does Quantum Measurement Depend on the Observer's Consciousness?

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Graduate Why does removing a BBO crystal destroy correlation in LHV theories?

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Graduate Observation Independence - what and why?

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Graduate Really delayed choice quantum eraser

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Graduate Why not a quantum of any topological genus?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate How Do Equations Determine Angular Momentum Eigenvalues in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Does EPR represent Einstein's views very well?

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Graduate What does U(p,q) notation mean in group theory?

  • somy
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Graduate Where to find solutions for Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Quantised Energy Levels - Bohr model

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Graduate What is the Physics of FTL-Particles and Ignorons?

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Graduate Do position and momentum eigenstates require delta functions?

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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

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Undergrad Resources on magnetic monopoles for A2 report

  • Just some guy
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Graduate Quantum Electrodynamics: A Basic Textbook for Self-Study in Undergrad Years

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Graduate Why does the associative axiom work without a hermitian conjugate in Sakurai?

  • broegger
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Graduate Does Quantum tunneling prove speeds greater than light?

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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of differential operator

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Graduate What Is Heisenberg Hamiltonian?

  • somy
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Graduate Calculating Casimir-Force: Zero Point Oscillation vs Virtual Particles

  • Kruger
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Graduate Why electron circulating in an orbit must spiral inwards?

  • pivoxa15
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Graduate Sakurai's treatment of Feynman's Path Integral

  • mattlorig
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Graduate Complex Scalar Field in Terms of Two Independent Real Fields

  • ghotra
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Graduate Virtual Photon Lifetime: Proton in Atom Nucleus

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Graduate The speed of light and Heisenburg

  • CJames
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Graduate Is the Casimir effect from zero-point oscillations or virtual particles?

  • Kruger
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Graduate Does Bell's Theorem apply to non-local HV theories?

  • DrChinese
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Graduate EPR statements to agree/disagree with or to comment on:

  • Hans de Vries
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Undergrad Does Negative Time Really Exist in Physics?

  • Nabbsy88
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Graduate Griffiths Afterword and Superluminal Shadows

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Graduate If we all locked ourselves in rooms

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Graduate Thought experiment / paradox question

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Graduate Uncertain about uncertainty principle

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Graduate Energy-time Uncertainty and mass est. of exchange particles

  • yosofun
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Graduate Measure the speed of electron wave

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Graduate Guidance in solving Scalar Field with BC's

  • robousy
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Graduate The Uncertainty Principle and Quantized Time

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Graduate Difference between retarded van der Waals force and Casimir force

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Graduate He Atom Cooper Pair Vacuum Superconductor

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Graduate Books on Feynman path integrals in quantum mechanics

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Graduate My gratiude/thankfulness for PF

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Graduate Maxwell equations from spin-1 transformations under boosts

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Graduate Vacuum to Vacuum Amplitudes and Functional Integrals

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