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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Graduate How has quantum physics evolved over time?
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Graduate Which Quantum Field Theory Books Are Best for Condensed Matter Physics?
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Undergrad Why Does Wave Group Size Affect Wavelength Range?
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Undergrad Wave Formula Differs in 3-D | Why?
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Graduate Some questions on the Dyson expansion of the S matrix
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Undergrad Determine the velocity of an electron orbiting an atom ?
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Graduate Referencess on Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
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Undergrad How Does a Current-Carrying Loop Behave in a Magnetic Field?
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Graduate What Are the Benefits and Limitations of QFT Normal Ordering?
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Graduate Is it possible to stablize positrons,hyperons and muons
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Graduate How can one event affect another instantly over a distance
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Graduate Stablizing Exotic atoms Impossible?
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Graduate Classical example that presents quantum aspects
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Graduate Why are Hydrogen Orbitals Asymmetrical Despite a Spherically Symmetric Problem?
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Graduate What does Quantum Physics tell us?
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Graduate What is light a wave in according to quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Understanding "Oscillators in Cavity Walls
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Graduate What Keeps Discrete Spacetime Together at GR Scales?
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Graduate Any photon is a spin 1 particle
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Graduate Trying to understand how two particles interact
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Graduate Poll: Planck's Length - Vote on 1 or 2
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Graduate Classical fields and quantum fields
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Graduate Is There a Flaw in Bell's Theorem?
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Graduate How does entanglement manifest itself?
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Graduate Delayed Choice exp and Cause-Effect
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Graduate Electromagnetic fields (nuclear & electron)
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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillator system
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Graduate Difference between measurement and interaction
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Graduate Relativity, confinement and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate High Rez EMF Mapping: Seeking Advice
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Graduate What is the connection between Unruh radiation and quantum electrodynamics?
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Graduate What Maths Do You Need to Learn Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate QM Consequences for Wavefunction of Blind Persons: Do They Still Collapse?
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Graduate The title of the webpage could be: What is the speed of disentanglement?
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Graduate Wave-particle duality question
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Graduate No-cloning principle vs. measurement - confused
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Graduate Concerning psi and black holes
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator: Position Expectation Value & Ground State
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Graduate Electric Charges Scatter Light
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Graduate Is Quantum Gravity Simply the Result of Space-Time Curvature?
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Graduate Half silvered mirror experiments
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Graduate Quantum Tunnelling and Spacetime
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Graduate Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Limited to Momentum?
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Graduate How Does Quantum Gravity Connect Relativity and Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Lorentz Violation: Implications for Extra Dimensions & Quantum Theory
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Graduate On a consequence of quantanization of energy
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Graduate Where Can I Find Free Resources on the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation?
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Graduate Do Matter Waves Travel Faster Than Light?
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Graduate Does quantum theory make bizarre events possible?
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Graduate Understanding Linear Vector Spaces for System Representation
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Graduate Under what conditions will quantum effects become important for gravity?
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Graduate Ladder Operator Theorem: Uniting Operators Through Unitary Transformations
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Graduate Understanding the Set of Commuting Observables
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Graduate Ehrenfest's Theorem: Quantum Mechanics Explained
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Graduate Trouble understanding how charge density is the amplitude squared
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Graduate Double-Slit Experiments: Young, Taylor, Light & Electrons
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Graduate Physical meaning for wavefunction
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Graduate Why isn't the constant force problem in QM classes?
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Graduate Anomalies of wave particle duality
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Graduate Difficult geometries - Casimir Effect
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Graduate How much is this renormalization business a problem in QFT?
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Graduate Exploring the Multiverse: The Double Slit Time Experiment
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Graduate What is the Wick Rotation mystery
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Graduate Direction of a single particle wave
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Graduate What Are the Essential Concepts for Teaching Zeeman Splitting?
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Graduate Dirac equation and path integral
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Graduate Time Evolution of Quantum systems.
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Graduate A quantum foam absorber: theoretically possible?
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Graduate Path Integral that is valid for a Particle
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Undergrad What is the difference in amplitude between red and blue photons?
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Graduate Is the Delayed Choice Experiment Truly Demonstrating Quantum Weirdness?
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Graduate Electron Double-Slit Experiment: One Electron at a Time?
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Graduate Applying Quantum Superposition to Spherical Standing Wave Structure
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Graduate Pointwise convergence of fourier expansion
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Undergrad Probability / Probability density
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Graduate Gravitation, and wavelike particles
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Graduate A question about Dirac's quantization
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Graduate How come that Esinglet < Etriplet and Hund’s rule are both correct?
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Undergrad Why do clouds form into definite cohesive shapes?
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Graduate What is the Purest Method for Measuring Low-Energy Particle Momentum?
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Graduate QFTs & Epsilons: Unraveling Beta Functions in Dim Reg
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Graduate How Does Planck's Quantised Energy Theory Address the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
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Graduate Experimental Tests of Projection Postulate
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Graduate What are the fundamental objects in Quantum Field Theory?
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Undergrad Cerenkov Radiation/Cerenkov Light
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Undergrad How Can We Compare the Frequency and Wavelength of Gamma Rays and Visible Light?
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Entanglement: Incompatible Observables
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Graduate Schrödinger equation and equivalence principle
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Graduate Relational Solution of Measurement Problem?
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Graduate What's the explanation of W+/e+ decay?
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Graduate Measuring Particle Mass: Is Charge a Constant Property?
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Graduate Laughlins theory of emergence?
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Graduate How Does the EPR Paradox Challenge Our Understanding of Quantum Spin?
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Graduate Debunking the Myths of Teleportation: The Truth Behind Quantum State Transfer
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Graduate Can Black Holes Swallow Quantum Numbers? Investigating the Entropy Problem
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Graduate An impossible quantum theory of everything?
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Graduate Pointlike particles and the emergence of classicality
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Graduate On the definition of reallity by EPR
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Graduate Effect of wormholes on photons, ect.
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Undergrad Is the lifetime of the Z0 particle too short to be directly observed?
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