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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 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?
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Graduate Exact calculation of tunneling current?
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Graduate Schrödinger equation: P(r)>1 ?
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Graduate Finding "Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theories
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Graduate Creating 3 Photon Entanglement with PDC: Can it be Done?
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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?
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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?
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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 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?
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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?
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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 Why does light reflect at a fixed angle if mirrors are irregular at the quantum level?
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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
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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?
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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?
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Graduate Calculating Casimir-Force: Zero Point Oscillation vs Virtual Particles
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Graduate Why electron circulating in an orbit must spiral inwards?
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Graduate Sakurai's treatment of Feynman's Path Integral
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Graduate Complex Scalar Field in Terms of Two Independent Real Fields
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Graduate Virtual Photon Lifetime: Proton in Atom Nucleus
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Graduate The speed of light and Heisenburg
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Graduate Is the Casimir effect from zero-point oscillations or virtual particles?
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Graduate Does Bell's Theorem apply to non-local HV theories?
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Graduate EPR statements to agree/disagree with or to comment on:
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Undergrad Does Negative Time Really Exist in Physics?
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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
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Graduate Measure the speed of electron wave
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Graduate Guidance in solving Scalar Field with BC's
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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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