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Graduate Decoupled spin vectors A and B

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Graduate How are basis vector relationships defined in incompatible propositions?

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Undergrad Nomenclature : global or constant phase

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Undergrad Fermi's golden rule derivation a bit hazy

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High School Quantum computing -- How is the relevant solution selected?

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Graduate Does Adding or Removing an Electron Change a Helium-3 Atom to a Boson?

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Graduate Product of Representations of Lorentz Group

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Graduate Superluminal origin of Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Thought experiment on photon entanglement

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Undergrad Vacuum amplitudes in \phi^4 theory

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Undergrad Why does a superposition of z-spin states give definite x-spin?

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Undergrad Commutator with gradient operator (nabla)

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Graduate Algebraic form of Klein Gordon ##\phi^4## vacuum and ladder operators

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Undergrad Creation/annihilation operators question

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Undergrad What are time crystals and what are they made of?

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics Particle in a Box

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Graduate Looking Under the Hood of Feynman Diagrams

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Graduate Potential step at a Barrier in Quantum mechanics

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High School Are all quantum fields coherent?

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Graduate Finding periodic potentials from Bloch wave functions

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Undergrad Do electrons interact with virtual particles at every instant?

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Undergrad Is the Kronecker Delta Calculation in Peskin and Schroeder's Solution Correct?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Quantum Measurement under Heisenberg Picture?

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Graduate Ground state energy of cube-like potential wells

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Undergrad Why are particles off-shell in external fields?

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Graduate Validity of Scalar Field Lagrangian with Linear and Quadratic Terms

  • Gaussian97
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Graduate QFT topics for entanglement entropy

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Undergrad Wilczek on virtual particle reality and summing Feynman diagrams

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Undergrad The Dirac Equation: Understanding Spinors and Approximations

  • park
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Undergrad Perturbation lines for the 1s hydrogen electron

  • georg gill
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Undergrad Time measurement in a double slit experiment with single photons

  • Marcin
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High School From radio signal to corresponding photons

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Graduate How to build a qubit (theoretically)?

  • WAAAGH
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Undergrad What is the Fourier conjugate of spin?

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Graduate Understanding Superposition Physically and Mathematically

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Undergrad Atoms in a harmonic oscillator and number states

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Graduate Quantum entanglement and quantum foundation

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High School Questions about measurement devices in the double slit experiment

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Undergrad 2nd Order Perturbation Theory Energy Correction

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Graduate Commutation between spin-operator and creation operator(QFT)

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Graduate Quantum Information research frontier

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Undergrad Definition of a Degenerate Subspace (QM)

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High School How does the double slit experimental apparatus actually work?

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Graduate Double slit experiment with magnetic traps

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High School Adjoint Operation in Shankar's "Principles of Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad The density of states independent of Boundary Conditions

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Undergrad Valley degeneracy in tunneling current

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Graduate Effect of Spin on Vacuum Energy

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Undergrad Is there some agreement on properties of a theory of quantum gravity?

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Undergrad What is an Eigenstate? Simple Explanation

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Undergrad When is <psi|AB|theta> equal to <psi|A|theta>*<psi|B|theta>?

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Undergrad How Fourier transform and operator methods connect for conjugate variables

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High School Why do double Hadamard gates cancel |1> but leave |0> and √2 unchanged?

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Undergrad Relationship between a Lie group such as So(3) and its Lie algebra

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High School What is the significance of 'i' in quantum computation notation?

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High School Is sunlight through gaps in leaves during an eclipse decohered?

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Undergrad When does the exchange operator commute with the Hamiltonian

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High School We can't unite QM with GR because of what the Qfield is capable of

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Undergrad Why doesn't an electron bounce in the direction of the incident light?

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High School How do orthogonal waves interfere?

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Undergrad Understanding algorithmic information theory's reality

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Graduate Commutation relations of N(k) with creation and annihilation operators in QFT

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Graduate Stone's theorem on one-parameter unitary groups and new observables?

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Undergrad Rotation problem in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Von Neumann entropy for "similar" pvm observables

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Undergrad Is the potential energy always negative in the ground state of a hydrogen atom?

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High School Emission from a coated cathode and tunneling

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Graduate What Conditions Allow the Derivative Trick for Evaluating Fermionic Commutators?

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Graduate How effective can QM be to understand the mind and/or consciousness?

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Undergrad Question on the SG (Stern-Gerlach) Spin experiment

  • arkantos
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Graduate Learning coherent states beyond Griffiths

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High School Can we measure any two of the energy, momentum or mass simultaneously?

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Graduate Understanding Hermiticity of Actions in QFT for Checking and Confirming

  • John Greger
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Undergrad Imaginary Residuals in Solving the Schrodinger Equation

  • Bob3141592
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Undergrad Can coherent states reveal classical orbits from quantum orbitals?

  • arivero
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Graduate Lorentz transformation symmetry and angular momentum in QFT

  • JD_PM
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Undergrad Why use antisymmetric tensor to flip Higgs doublet in up-quark coupling

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Graduate Superficial Degree of Divergence in Renormalization of Phi^3 Theory

  • The black vegetable
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Undergrad How to determine ##\psi(x,0)## in general situation?

  • Kim hyeon su
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Undergrad Scalar Hamiltonian and electromagnetic transitions

  • kelly0303
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Undergrad What does it mean to influence a quantum measurement's outcome?

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Undergrad Bell's theorem : pre- and post-digitization

  • jk22
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High School What Are the Best References for Delayed Eraser Experiments with Electrons?

  • jeremyfiennes
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High School How can electrons spin if they're waves of energy?

  • Henrcr
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Undergrad Proof of Commutator Operator Identity

  • Peter Yu
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Undergrad Planck's law in wavenumber vs. wavelength

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Undergrad What is the name for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?

  • kent davidge
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Undergrad Significance of the Exchange Operator commuting with the Hamiltonian

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Graduate Renormalization Conditions of QED

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High School Where is the quantization term in Planck's Law?

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Undergrad Quantum fluctuation and classical physics

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Graduate Electron frequency components during orbital tunneling

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Graduate Dirac Propagator: Learn to Reach 8.2

  • Ayoub Tamin
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Undergrad Why the statistics for a real gas are not quantum in nature?

  • MichPod
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High School Mach-Zehnder Experiment: Wave-Particle Duality Demonstrated

  • jeremyfiennes
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Undergrad Steering the polarization of entangled photons

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Undergrad Probability density expansion

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High School How do quantum computers find a solution?

  • ngrunenberg
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Undergrad A qualitative question about Blackbody Radiation

  • Rishabh Narula
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Undergrad Effect of inserting an analyzer loop in the EPR experiment

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