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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Graduate Lundeen Steinberg claim to resolve Hardy paradox
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Graduate Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Evaporation
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Graduate Degeneracy of the Quantum Linear Oscillator
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Graduate Accelerated electron photon emission
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Graduate How can I create polar plots of spherical harmonics?
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Graduate How Does the Rotating Wave Approximation Simplify the Density Matrix Evolution?
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Graduate 'Genuine Decoherence' and Macroscopic Superposition
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Undergrad Two Basic Blackbody Radiation quesions
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Graduate Doube slit electron with single slit photon emitter and detector
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Graduate Has Computer Simulation Proven Successful in Solving Quantum Mechanical Systems?
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Graduate Matter waves as standing waves
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Graduate Maximizing Bounces in Quantum Ping Pong Ball Collisions | Brain Teaser
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Graduate Talbot Lau interferometry of carbon-70 fullerenes
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Graduate Spin - overlapping photons with opposite spin
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Undergrad How to predict the frequency of NMR spectrum
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Graduate What is the ground state wave function of ortho-helium and its degeneracy?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Elementary Questions in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Electron spin and conservation of angular momentum
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Graduate Quantum computing - bloch sphere coordinates
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Graduate How are the excitation energies of helium determined experimentally?
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Graduate Calculating Fermi Energy for Neutrons Confined to a Nucleus
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Graduate Scattering theory - phase shift - best approx.
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Graduate How to create good quantum states from good quantum numbers?
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Undergrad Definition of a symmetry transformations in quantum mechanics
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Undergrad No problem, happy to help! Good luck with your studies.
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Graduate Does Antony Valentini's "sub-quantum measurement" really work?
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Undergrad Can Quantized Momentum Transfer Explain Double-Slit Interference Patterns?
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Undergrad Is the Chirality Projection Operator Misused in This Scenario?
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Graduate The uncertainty principle in quantum gravity
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Graduate Is the Counterfactual Argument for Locality and Realism Flawed?
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Graduate Tsirelson bound and mixed states.
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High School Interference of Light in the Double-Slit Experiment
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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator: Negative Kinetic Energy Question.
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Graduate Solving Degeneracy Equation: General Formula & More
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Graduate Potential barrier, wave function, and probability
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Undergrad Definition of the potential energy operator
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Undergrad Physical Significance/Interpretation of Angular Wave Number.
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Graduate Understanding Black Hole Evaporation with Hawking Radiation
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Graduate Hawking radiation and negative gravitational charge
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Graduate How Do Spin-1 Particles Behave in Stern-Gerlach Experiments?
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Graduate Covalent bonding has limited range?
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Graduate Transmission Coefficient of a Rectangular Square Potential Barrier
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Graduate Dual particle and dual double slit interference
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Graduate Mesons Violate Bell's Inequality?
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Graduate How to calculate the photon flux of monochromatic light?
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Graduate Discover Ne^9 Energy Levels Using NIST Database - Missing Values?
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Graduate Time period measured in double slit experiment
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Graduate Can magnetism exist outside of any non-inertial motion, such as spin?
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Graduate Could wave/particle duality have to do with the speed limit of light?
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Graduate Question about quantum computing theory
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Graduate Isn’t Bell’s probability density for hidden variables too restrictive?
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Graduate HUP and the Double-Slit Experiment
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Undergrad The deduction of Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distrbiutions
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Graduate Double slits separation & electron field size
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Graduate Quantum Time Experiment: Teleporting Information Across Time Confirmed
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Graduate How particles become localized
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Graduate Relativistic derivation of E=1/2MV^2 from QFT or Diriac or other
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Graduate What is the Klein-Gordon equation
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Graduate Spin projections on different axis
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Graduate Two spin 1/2 partcles and spin operators
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Graduate Wave packet moving in a magnetic field
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and Fourier Transforms
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Graduate No Cloning Theorem: Understand Why It Violates Uncertainty
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Graduate EPR, QM, & Clearing Up Mysteries - Ed Jaynes' Original Goal
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Graduate Atom Wave Function: Definition & Explained
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Graduate Functional Derivatives in Q.F.T.
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Undergrad Is it possible for something to be smaller than a Planck length?
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Undergrad Is Gravity an Observer in Schrödinger's Cat Experiment?
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Graduate Is the cluster decomposition equivalent to no phase transitions?
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Undergrad Advanced Dirac Notation Question
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Undergrad The 4 solutions to the Dirac equation
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Undergrad Van der Waals force in quantum physics
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Graduate Macroscopic systems in the quantum theory book by Asher Peres
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Undergrad Vacuum energy length scale detectable by the Casimir effect?
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Undergrad How can a photon have no mass if it has momentum?
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Graduate Why are there only two possible spin-eigenstates for deuterium's nucleus?
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High School So can I use "wave particle duality?"
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Undergrad Reconciling Determinism and Superposition in Quantum Theory
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Graduate Finding E_J Value of a Qubit: Step-by-Step Guide
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Undergrad Can the Energy of Ammonia Molecule Be Defined in a Non-Eigenstate State?
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Graduate LS vs jj couplings and their selection rules
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Undergrad Question about why QFT in 4D is undefined
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Undergrad Attosecond Physics Explained - Get Your Answers Here
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Undergrad Time evolution of an expectation value
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Undergrad Question about photon wave packets
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Insights 9 Reasons Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete - Comments
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Undergrad What is "to the first order in H"?
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Undergrad Would a Quantum Theory of Gravity dispense with the Inverse....
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Undergrad Lawrence Krauss: Quantum Mechanics is deterministic (video)
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Undergrad Do Photons Decay? QED Predictions & Measurements
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Undergrad Why no position operator for photon?
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Undergrad Single ket for a product of two wave functions
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Undergrad Doesn't the atom in ground state radiate?
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Undergrad Confusion on binding energy and ionization energy.
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Graduate Can we have a proton and an antiproton in the 1^S_0 atomic orbital
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Undergrad Which-path info exists = deterministic context?
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High School Is quantum superposition the same as regular superposition in physics?
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Undergrad Clarifying causes of correlations
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High School Particle properties conclusion from no-slit diffraction
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High School How do I explain quantum superposition?
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