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Undergrad The Schmidt decomposition in QC

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Undergrad Calculating Momentum Operator Matrix Elements from <φ|dH/dkx|ψ>

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High School Is spacetime a quantum error correcting code?

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Graduate Counting States / Uncertainty principle

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Graduate Rotational energy levels vs l quantum number

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Undergrad How does the Pauli exclusion principle work?

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High School Does a photon contain a pair of spinning charges?

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High School What's causing the "spooky action at a distance?"

  • Simple man
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High School Double Slit experiment and the path of least Action

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High School Is it possible to change a fundamental property of a particle?

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Graduate Quantum virial and confinement

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Graduate Pascal Principle with photons in a U tube

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Graduate Quantum coherence in a gas sample

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Graduate Why the probabilistic approach is not more prominent in QFT?

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High School How can you ensure that the particle has already been entangled?

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Graduate Van der Waals Interaction

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Graduate Can an object be at rest in its own reference frame?

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Graduate Can EM fields exhibit the same energy-momentum tensor as gravitational waves?

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High School How do we know the electron is not a field of energy?

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Graduate Starting with the Schrodinger equation, how do we find the Hamiltonian matrix?

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Undergrad Can Compton scattering increase the energy of photons?

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Graduate I am Imran, a retired Electrical Engineer with a QM question

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Graduate Charged particle on a sphere with magnetic dipole at its center

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High School Can Molecules Have Defined Position and Momentum Before Measurement?

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Undergrad Why Is My Fourier Transform of a Gaussian Incorrect?

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Graduate Flexibility in Grover's Algorithm?

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Graduate Field screening in the electron

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Graduate What is the hardware for quantum gates?

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Graduate Bra-ket notation to Matrix for entangled pairs

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Graduate Where does photon interference happen

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Graduate Classical versus quantum information

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Graduate Rigorous treatments of double-slit , quantum eraser, etc.

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Graduate Probability current proportional to density

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Graduate Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relation vs. noise-disturbance measures

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Graduate Why is the ground state a coherent state when α=0?

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Undergrad What is passive locality ? Bell's Theorem.

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Graduate Why doesn't an accelerated electron radiate infinitely many photons?

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Graduate Partial measurement in quantum eraser with random slit checks

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Graduate Is Eventum Mechanics the Same as CSL?

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Graduate How to Measure Entangled Photons in the 45/135 Basis with Wave Plates and PBS?

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Graduate Disturb a complex massive field, apply force ?

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Graduate What is entanglement purification and how does it work?

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Graduate Number of Photons In Each Section

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Graduate Peculiarities of photons in quantum optics

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Graduate Adroit Measurements in Reaching Conclusion

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Graduate Two complex fields + interaction, conserved current?

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Graduate How to graph Dirac equation, some complex numbers?

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Graduate Macroscopic quantum effects and gravitational wave detector

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Graduate What Happens to Entangled Photons at a Beam Splitter?

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Graduate Bruce Rosenblum, author of Quantum Enigma

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Graduate How Do Wave Plates Influence Photon Entanglement and Measurement?

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Graduate Evolution of Photons from Bell-States to Separable States

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Graduate Collapse Models of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Pilot wave without non-locality

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Graduate Quantum Teleportation / Beam Splitters

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Graduate How Is Mass Generated Dynamically in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate 3D phase space of point particle and spinors.

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Graduate Majorana equation in Algebra of Physical Space

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Graduate Can this classical double-slit experiment duplicate loss of interference?

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Graduate Proving entropy symmetry in quantum systems with time-reversible laws

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Graduate Shape-Invariant Potentials in N=2 SUSY QM

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Undergrad How does the Pauli exclusion principle apply to general quantum states?

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Undergrad Why does the Dirac equation lead to spin 1/2?

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Undergrad Complete list of Feynman diagrams

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Graduate What is a 'Quantum Coherence'?

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Graduate Path Integral QM: Intro and Forward/Backward Scattering

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High School Bohr's duality paradox 100 years later?

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Graduate Possible similarity between Classical and Quantum photon definition

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Undergrad Vector Notation of Quantum States for 2 Qubit System

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Undergrad Pauli exclusion principle and Hermitian operators

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Graduate Do QED effects make a huge change to the position of the electrons?

  • Ali Lavasani
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Undergrad What happens to entangled particle spin when you measure one without knowing the original?

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Graduate One Loop Correction to a 4 pt. function in 3 dimensions

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Undergrad Expectation value of the occupation number in the FD and BE distributions

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Graduate Discrete K-G eq. solutions - problem with integral

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Undergrad Why do Pauli matrices have to be Hermitian and satisfy σ² = I?

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Undergrad Could the probability distribution itself be quantised?

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High School Can Electrical Repulsion Distort Electron Orbits in Atoms?

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High School Do Entangled Photons React to possible Photon-Photon Collisions?

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Graduate Why is Spin-Orbit Coupling Important in Understanding Quantum Systems?

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Graduate Transition in LS-coupling confusion

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Graduate Alternative linear comb. to vizualize hydrogenic orbitals p,d etc

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Graduate Solutions to the TISE for unbound states

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Graduate Molecular States, Symmetry and Allowed Transitions

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Undergrad How to understand the Bloch sphere in the quantum computation?

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Graduate Query about an article on quantum synchronization

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Undergrad Hamiltonian in QM for QFT forces/fields effects

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Undergrad Kim's 1999 delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment

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Graduate Does there exist a super-quantum correlation in mixed-state formalism

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Graduate Which operator corresponds to the Green function in QFT?

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Graduate What is the relationship between QFT and QM?

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Graduate Why "Green's function" is used more than "correlations" in QFT?

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Graduate No hidden variables in QM - a paradigm shift?

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Undergrad Eigenstates and repeated measurements

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Graduate How does Bell's 1964 theorem address detector independence and local realism?

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High School What Is the Role of Density Matrices in Describing Quantum Mixtures?

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Graduate The line between quantum and large scale objects

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High School Why does Bell state measurement in Proietti 2019 create entanglement?

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High School Can superposition be attained for multiple states at once?

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