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Graduate Fundamental Theorem of Quantum Measurements
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Undergrad Macroscopic rotation from spin flipping?
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Graduate What's the best quantum simulator?
- skanskan
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Undergrad Question about gauge invariance and the A-B effect
- Ghost Repeater
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Undergrad Can Optical Angular Momentum Revolutionize Open-Space Light Communication?
- microsansfil
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Undergrad About the premises behind the Schrödinger equations
- snoopies622
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Undergrad Weinberg and Ray Transformations – Ch2 App A.
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Undergrad Operators and vectors in infinite dimensional vector spaces
- fog37
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High School What Should You Research About Uncaused Quantum Events and Their Implications?
- sayetsu
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High School Where Can I find the Einstein vs. Bohr Full Debates
- learis
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Undergrad Reversible Measurement: Is It Possible?
- A Puzzlement
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Undergrad Beam splitter in an entanglement swapping experiment
- Mentz114
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Undergrad How small does a system have to be for QM to be necessary?
- dRic2
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Undergrad Why is the QCD Lagrangian often abbreviated?
- Kara386
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Undergrad Is Dirac's Equation Sufficient for Modeling a System of Electrons Without QFT?
- LarryS
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Undergrad How to create the operator of unknown beamsplitter
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High School Measuring entangled particles along several angles
- Xilor
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Graduate What is Leakage in terms of quantum computing?
- David Long
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Graduate What's the idea behind propagators
- Tomishiyo
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Graduate States in usual QM/QFT and in the algebraic approach
- leo.
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Undergrad Delayed Choice with both slits closed, What happens?
- Rohan de Silva
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Undergrad Understanding Quantum Mechanics: Equations for Spin Along x and y Axes Explained
- doggydan42
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Undergrad Thought experiment: Photons in a box
- kent davidge
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Undergrad Kim et al DCQE optical details
- Derek P
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Undergrad Does the concept of an "object" belong in Quantum Mechanics?
- Robert Shaw
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Undergrad Do Different Observers See Different Entangled States in Quantum Mechanics?
- Robert Shaw
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Graduate What's the energy-spread of the quantum Universe state?
- Robert Shaw
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Undergrad Generalized coordinates basic question
- nomadreid
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics: The Debate Over "State
- Robert Shaw
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Undergrad Why is the Uncertainty principle inherent to particles?
- Phys12
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High School How does the Doppler shift explain changes in photon energy without interaction?
- itoero
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Undergrad Do we need a reference frame in Quantum Hilbert space?
- Robert Shaw
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Undergrad Understanding the Parity Operator in Dirac Field Theory
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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of the derivative of a wave function
- Gene Naden
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Undergrad Hamiltonian in Schrödinger: necessarily total energy?
- nomadreid
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Undergrad What is the significance of commuting operators and CSCO in quantum mechanics?
- fog37
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Undergrad Two questions about "The Physics of Virtual Particles"
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Undergrad Can the Schrodinger equation satisfy Laplace's equation?
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High School Cooper pairs and Superconductors
- Ben Brain
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Undergrad Is Superdeterminism a Plausible Explanation for Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Why the second quantization Hamiltonian works?
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Undergrad How Does Spin Hall Effect Couple Charge and Spin Current?
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High School How to increase wave amplitudes
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High School What is the result of putting a detector on both slits in the 2 slit experiment?
- drl
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High School Interference pattern intensity
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Undergrad Explanation of optical phenomena in light of Feynman's Theory
- Wrichik Basu
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Undergrad Can the Time Independent Schroedinger Equation Be Used to Find Unbound States?
- fog37
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High School Uncertainty Principle: Velocity, Position and Energy
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Graduate What was so extraordinary about Landau damping?
- TheCanadian
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Undergrad Are fundamental particles like electrons and protons truly matter waves?
- Jianphys17
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Undergrad Non-Unitary Dynamics: Is it Allowed?
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Undergrad Projection Postulate vs Quantum Randomness
- LarryS
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Undergrad Bremmstrahlung in neutral atom collisions
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Undergrad Complex Numbers in Wave Function: QM Explained
- Zaya Bell
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Undergrad How Does Light Emission Affect the Wavefunction of an Atom?
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Undergrad Do the SU(n) generators represent any observables?
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Graduate What are some recommended books on non-standard quantum mechanical models?
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Undergrad Disctrete vs continuous spectrum
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High School Understanding the Conversion of Energy Forms in Particle Interactions
- TheCanadian
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Undergrad Do neutral atom collisions affect the continuous nature of black body radiation?
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High School Why do material particles interact?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics be Studied in Banach Spaces or Other Non-Hilbert Spaces?
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High School Understanding Reflection in Light: Electromagnetic Interactions with Matter
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Undergrad What happens when we observe an electron?
- AhmedHesham
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Graduate Time independence of a Noether charge in QFT?
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Graduate Identical and indistinguishable particles
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Undergrad EM Radiation of "Permanent" Molecular Electric Dipoles
- particlezoo
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Undergrad Higgs field and energy dependence?
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High School Question about Unitary Operators and symmetry
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Undergrad Show that the integral of the Dirac delta function is equal to 1
- Doitright
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Renormalization - Comments
- Urs Schreiber
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High School Why do photons stimulate emission in atoms?
- Somali_Physicist
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Undergrad Srednicki QFT Chapter 4 time-evolved operator
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Undergrad Do Polarized Atoms Imply Shifted Electron Orbitals?
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Undergrad How to experimentally measure a quantum gate
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Graduate What form of the Schrodinger equation do you use for intensity?
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High School Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Experiment Results
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Undergrad Noble Gases vs. Halogens: Which Has a Greater Atomic Radius?
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Undergrad Ground State Energy of a Potential: λ2px2/2m+0.5kx2
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Undergrad Representing a Hamiltonian in an operator form
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Undergrad Phase, Bloch sphere versus Feynman path
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Graduate Probability of obtaining general quantum measurement outcome
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Undergrad Can a Pure State be Interpreted as a Mixed State for a Single Particle?
- nomadreid
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High School Preserving causality in the EPR experiment
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Undergrad How Do Oscillations and Interference Define Particles in Quantum Field Theory?
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Undergrad Question about the solution to the Harmonic wave equation
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Undergrad Classical chaos and quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Question about one-particle states
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Undergrad I am interested in Schrodinger equation with tempor. element
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Graduate Decoherence in the double slit experiment
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Undergrad Effect of momentum distribution on probability density
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Graduate I'm getting the wrong inner product of Fock space
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High School (N+1) enhancement of spontaneous emission, why not (N+1/2)
- Spinnor
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Graduate Entanglement in Ultracold Chemistry and Physics
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Gauge symmetries - Comments
- Urs Schreiber
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Graduate Velocity dependence of operators in Inonu-Wigner contraction
- hideelo
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Undergrad About the strength of a perturbing potential
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Undergrad Thought experiment about wave functions
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Graduate Is [\vec{p}^2, \vec{p} \times \vec{L}] Equal to Zero?
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Undergrad Probabilities for degenerate eigenvalues?
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