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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Graduate Quantum Optics: Squeezed light generation
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Undergrad What's Known about the Wave Function and Gravity
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Undergrad FTL communication via delayed choice measurement
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Undergrad Light : Wave - particle duality
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Undergrad When should I use a plus or minus sign in space and time translations?
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High School Entanglement and delayed choice measurements
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High School Is Bell's parameter really a hidden variable ?
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High School White dwarf quantum tunnelling
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Undergrad Oracle questions in Grover's Algorithm
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Undergrad Understanding Spin & Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Particle goes through a double slit + decays, what happens?
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Graduate Quantum measurement and entropy
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High School How could a Majorana fermion exist?
  • YoungPhysicist
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High School Theories of Quantum Physics, do they exist?
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High School Time emergent from entanglement
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Undergrad World selection in case of entanglement measurement
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Undergrad Is there a simple explanation for Fermi-Dirac statistics?
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Undergrad Solving the Representation of d/dq: Mistake in Reasoning?
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High School Quantum teleportation from a Curious 10 year Old
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Undergrad Standard boost, particles with mass M > 0
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High School The Nature of Measurement and Interaction in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Why are all particles of the same type identical?
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Undergrad Finding expansion coefficient of a 3-d Gaussian wave packet
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High School Is wave-particle duality a result of the relativity theory?
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High School Applying Einstein Equivalence to the Quantum Realm
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Undergrad Why is e^ikx considered a plane wave?
  • Phys12
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High School Imaging of Light as a Particle and a Wave
  • jedishrfu
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High School Is Time Emerging? Physicists' Experiments & Many-Worlds Interpretation
  • TheQuestionGuy14
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Undergrad Difference between an electromagnetic field and a photon?
  • josh777
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Undergrad Dimensions of the double slits in comparison to the electron?
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Undergrad Free particle: Quantum and Classical treatment
  • Abdul Quader
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Undergrad Imaginary Part of QHO Solutions?
  • LarryS
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Graduate Team discovers a first-of-its-kind material for the quantum age
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Graduate Vacuum in interacting QFT and physical particles
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Graduate What is quantum synchronization?
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Undergrad Heisenberg - Uncertainty principle - lifetime of a particle
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Undergrad Would Schrödinger's bomb be as uncertain as his cat?
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Undergrad Photon detectors in a double slit experiment
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Undergrad Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (QHO)
  • Abdul Quader
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Undergrad Can Time Measurement with Mirrors in Special Relativity Be Improved?
  • 43arcsec
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High School Photon Gas in a Box w/ Heat Conductor
  • Bruce Haawkins
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High School Tendency to use entropy to explain everything
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Undergrad Understanding second quantization
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Undergrad Commuting set of operators (misunderstanding)
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Undergrad What is the Average Angle of Infrared Emission from a Flat Diamond Surface?
  • Bruce Haawkins
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Loop Gravity Explain the Quantum World?
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Undergrad Is a measurement a correlation?
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Undergrad Identity Operator for Multiple Particles
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Undergrad Recovering Fermion States in New Formalism?
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High School Assumption of the conservation of energy to Heat Flow
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High School Probabilities with a Bell's state
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Undergrad Probability density functions for velocity and position
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High School Carrier wave double slit experiment
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Undergrad Is There Only One True Outcome in the Many-Worlds Interpretation?
  • entropy1
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High School Zeno Effect: Quantifying the Impact of Observation on Events
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Undergrad Why do you need infinite size matrix which commute....
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Graduate Why did Dirac strongly pursue mathematical beauty?
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High School Is Randomness in Quantum Mechanics Truly Non-Deterministic?
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Graduate Is energy contained in matter wave equals hv like EM waves?
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Undergrad Big Bell Test Collaboration: Challenging Local Realism with Human Choices
  • DrChinese
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Undergrad Determinism of Macroscopic World
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High School Are electrons virtual particles?
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Undergrad I can't understand this excerpt from a QM book
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Undergrad How many bits or bytes of information are present in 1 atom
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Undergrad Understanding Spin to Particles & Annihilation
  • Silviu
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High School Understanding Absence of a Microscopic Arrow of Time
  • Islam Hassan
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High School Planck's Law, Color & Sun: Can We See It Greener?
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Undergrad Which law/formula proves the existence of antimatter?
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Undergrad Decorrelate 2 particles initially entangled
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Undergrad Zeno effect - standard derivation?
  • Agrippa
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Graduate What is the difference between second quantization and QFT?
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High School Understanding the Intricacies of Quantum Computers and Their Limitations
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Graduate What happens when bosons become distinguishable?
  • Philip Koeck
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Graduate Thermal Field Theory: Calculating Angular Distribution of CMB
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High School Is the kinetic energy of a particle quantized?
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High School Do Quantum Fields Move Relative to Each Other?
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Undergrad 3p->2s: Why spectral line split into three lines in m. field
  • HastiM
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Undergrad How to increase the energy of an electron
  • HastiM
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Undergrad Are magnetic Ising-like dipoles advanced territory? [in Portugese]
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High School Time average value of Spin operator
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Undergrad Covariance Matrices and Standard form
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Undergrad Problem with classical electrostatic potential energy
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Undergrad Do identical particles really exist?
  • LarryS
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High School How do we maintain a system in a non-dertministic state?
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Undergrad Finding de Broglie's Original Paper on Matter Waves
  • Sandeep T S
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Graduate Scalar-scalar scattering Feynman diagram
  • Glenn Rowe
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Graduate (How) Does TQFT actually describe a physical theory?
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Undergrad The energy-time uncertainty principle
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High School Do fractional spins like 4/5 exist?
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Graduate Evolution operator in QFT - why Schrodinger?
  • Glenn Rowe
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High School How long does it take to detect entanglement?
  • platosuniverse
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Undergrad Entanglement correlations vs. timelike measurement events?
  • LarryS
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Undergrad Quantum Field Energy: What Happens When it Tends to Zero?
  • James Slater
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Undergrad Alternative formula for the Hamiltonian
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High School Is String Theory Built On Funny Math?
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Undergrad Red Shift Energy: Understanding the Light Phenomena
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High School In parallel universes, everything that can happen happens, but why?
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Undergrad How the wavelength of a photon is measured experimentally?
  • Sandeep T S
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Graduate Quantum Mechanic Symposium London
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Undergrad Particle Physics and Quantum Mechanics
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