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Graduate Plane wave limit of Gaussian packet
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Graduate Understanding Energy Corrections in a Perturbed Square Well Potential
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Graduate How Did Heisenberg Develop the Uncertainty Principle and Matrix Mechanics?
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Graduate Feynman's radio communication analogy for parity and charge conjugation
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Graduate Is Electron Mass Linked to the Coupling Constant in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate 0th dimension and other dimensions
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement for nonphysicists
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Graduate What is the Physical Significance of Various Wave Functions?
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Graduate Could a 1/r Force Explain the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
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Graduate Why Do We Expect Proton Decay in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Designing a mass spectrometer for relativistic electrons at 0.998c
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Graduate Can Spin Transformations Link Gravity and Electromagnetism?
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Graduate Is interaction first or field?
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Graduate Can protons emit-absorb virtual photons?
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Graduate Energy eigenvalues for a particle in a 2D box and reflection from a barrier
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Graduate Wave packet propagation and dispersion relation
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Graduate Does nonlocality violate relativity and does opening a port collapse the wavefunction?
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Undergrad Why Does Reshuffling a Deck Reset Card Counting Probabilities?
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Undergrad How Can We Prove Light is a Particle Instead of a Wave?
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Graduate What counts as a measurement in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Are Photons Always Wave Packets or Can They Be Plane Waves?
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Graduate Is it possible to complete QuantumTheory by Hidden Variables?
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Graduate What Explains Action at a Distance in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Pion creation, beta decay and electron orbital transitions
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Graduate Gravity's Effect on Electric Charges in a Gravitational Field
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Graduate What Are the Possibilities and Limitations of Matter Beams?
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Graduate De brolgie and noumenal telecommunications
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Graduate What Math Do I Need to Know for Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Michelson-Morley fringe shift and invariants between reference frames
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Graduate Neurinos are massless paricles
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Graduate How do we know hydrogen absorption frequencies equal emission frequencies?
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Graduate Is wavefunction collapse limited by the speed of light?
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Graduate Schrodinger Wave Function Question
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Graduate What wave structures correspond to real state functions in quantum physics?
- Ed Quanta
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Graduate Hendrik van Hees's online QFT course using Zee's textbook
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Graduate Are Photons Responsible for Preventing Atomic Collapse?
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Graduate What is the Colour of Virtual photons?
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Undergrad About bose-Einstein condensate
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Graduate How Can Quarks Have Mass Without Physical Extensions?
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Graduate Why do relativity and quantum mechanics seem contradictory?
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Graduate Can Spin 2 Bosons Explain Particle Masses and Dark Energy?
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Graduate Is Bohm's Pilot Wave Theory a Viable Alternative to Standard Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Can quantum length be derived not using gravity constant?
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Graduate What Defines a Massless Particle Like a Photon?
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Graduate Does the electric force in a hydrogen atom behave like an electromagnetic wave?
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Graduate Is Boltzman's Constant related to the Fine Structure Constant?
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Graduate Can Changing Gluon Spin to 1/2 Make the Color Force Repulsive?
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Graduate A question about Hawking's path integral methods
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Graduate Could Fast-Moving Particles and Dark Energy Influence Electron Behavior?
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Graduate Can Neutron Beams Reveal Decoherence in C60 Buckyballs?
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High School Electron Energy in Atoms: What is it?
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Graduate Is it possible to make the quantum coherent?
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Graduate Learning about Bessel functions for the 3D Schrödinger equation
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Undergrad How does the CNOT gate work and what is its truth table?
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Graduate Deterministic systems and disproving the schrodinger's cat theory
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Graduate How does non-abelian gauge symmetry affect quark interactions?
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Graduate Maximum # of mutually orthonormal eigenvectors
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Undergrad What happens to energy overcoming the work function in the photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Eigenvalues of total angular momentum
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Graduate ZPE, Dark energy and Dark Matter
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Graduate Is the Uncertainty Principle simply a measurement problem?
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Graduate Very difficult problem for you
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Graduate What Lies Beyond Wave Particle Duality in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Decoherence for dummies and experts
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Graduate Interacting virtual particles?
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Graduate Online solutions for Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What is the difference between an operator and a function?
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Graduate Does electron have real physical mass?
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Graduate Negative energy density in a Casimir vacuum
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Graduate Superconductivity - Cooper Pair
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation across the Danube Demonstrated
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Undergrad Why is Electric Charge Quantized?
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Graduate Operator representation of p in x basis.
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Graduate Can the Higgs theory predict all particle masses?
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Graduate Teleportation goes long distance
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Lecture Videos
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Graduate What are hidden variables and the significance of Bell's Theorem?
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Graduate How can uncaused quantum events follow predictable probability distributions?
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Graduate Quantum mechanics textbooks comparable to Rudin for analysis
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Graduate Addition of three angular momentum
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Graduate Did Hawking Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox?
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Graduate Are QM and SR completely compatible?
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Graduate Electron Proton Scattering vs Tunneling
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Graduate Does an individual photon have a frequency, and if so, what is it doing?
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Undergrad Does refraction involve photon absorption and emission?
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Graduate Can a Hydrogen Atom Decay Into a Neutron?
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Graduate Could a neutrino telescope observe the universe 1 second after the Big Bang?
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Undergrad What is the velocity of an electron accelerated through 50V?
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Graduate Is the cat in Schrodinger's thought experiment actually significant?
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Graduate Simplifying Continuity Condition in Delta Potential
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Graduate Is Teleportation Scientifically Possible?
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Graduate What are the implications of M=E<C on electron behavior and photon emission?
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Graduate Young's double slit experiment and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate What happens to a bound electron when
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Graduate Debate with regards to time and FTL travel
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Graduate How does quantum tunneling work?
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Graduate QFT Textbook Recommendations and Discussion
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Graduate What do Wilson loops and spin networks mean physically?
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Graduate What makes an interaction a measurement in quantum mechanics?
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