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Undergrad Is the Compton scattering angle related to the incident energy?

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Graduate Hamiltonian in an electromagnetic field

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Undergrad Can angular momentum be applied to non circular rotations?

  • Fruit Water
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Undergrad Schwinger effect verified by Unruh temperature?

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Undergrad Hamiltonian for an Optical Phase Shifter?

  • Twigg
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Undergrad Does adding one quark to a million change QCD system properties?

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Undergrad What is the experimental difference between spin down and minus spin down?

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Undergrad The Relation Between Wavefunctions in Dirac Equation

  • Bob Dylan
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Graduate What are local and non-local operators in QM?

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Undergrad Dirac's Rest Mass in Minowski Spacetime

  • Bob Dylan
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Undergrad Dirac-Delta Function, Different Integration Variable

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Undergrad Little issue regarding physical states

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Undergrad Modified double-slit experiment - two photons

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High School Quantum Mechanics is not a theory?

  • Zafa Pi
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Graduate How does a pseudo-Hermitian model differ from a Hermitian?

  • SeM
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Field Variations - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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High School Casimir effect, energy conservation

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Geometry - Comments

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Lagrangians - Comments

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Graduate Quantum physics phenomena that have spiral-phase portraits?

  • SeM
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Graduate Transformation of position operator under rotations

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Graduate Shor's algorithm - need to uncompute auxiliary qubits?

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High School Beam splitter, one photon, one detector?

  • Idunno
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High School Quantum Tunneling: Reflection and Transmission Probabilities Explained

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Undergrad Canonical Quantization: Proving the Theory

  • Silviu
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Undergrad 2-particle Wavefunction and the Pauli Exclusion Principle

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Undergrad Requirements for pair production

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High School Why Can't Two Fermions Occupy the Same Quantum State?

  • riz
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Undergrad Can We Cool a Macroscopic Crystal to 1 nK?

  • Petr Matas
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Undergrad Fubini-Study metric of pure states

  • Alex Cros
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Undergrad Can Entangled Clocks Synchronize Time in Quantum Physics?

  • .Scott
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Undergrad What does complex conjugate of a derivate mean?

  • jstrunk
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Undergrad Understanding Neutron Star Formation Through Feynman Diagrams

  • doggydan42
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Undergrad Quantum Entanglement: Particle Connection Effects

  • Dan Nixon
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Undergrad Distinguishing electrons through spin

  • Josh1079
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Undergrad Why does Fermi pressure derivation use both ultra-cold and relativistic limits?

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Measurement Values for z-component of Angular Momentum

  • MoAli
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Undergrad What mechanism enables interaction of the fields?

  • Paul Woods
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Graduate Shor's algorithm and similar exploitation of QM?

  • jarekduda
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Undergrad How does a harmonic oscillator model have the same frequency

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Undergrad Understanding Continuous Variable QKD

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Graduate Why light beams attract or repel each other even when they don't have charge

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Undergrad Dirac equation solved in Weyl representation

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Undergrad Typo in Weinberg annihilation operator expression for bosons and fermions?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Do superposition states satisfy the time-dependent Schrödinger equation?

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Undergrad Can Photons travel faster than c?

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Undergrad Feynman Path Integral: Teaching and Questions

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Undergrad Fluorescence from core shell quantum dots

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Graduate Functional derivatives and propagators in φ³ theory tadpole diagrams

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High School How do I learn about particle spin from basics?

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Graduate Can there be a subquantum level?

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Undergrad Alternate form of wave equation

  • Daniel Sellers
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Undergrad Why are fermion-only or boson-only systems easier to study than mixed states?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad LS-Coupling: intuition why 2p^2 has no singlet P?

  • Twigg
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High School Possible Loophole in the uncertainty principle

  • RevolutionaryThinker
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Spacetime - Comments

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Undergrad Multiplying a wavefunction by a constant number

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Undergrad Dirac Matrices and the Pythagorean Theorem

  • Bob Dylan
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Undergrad Generating a Hilbert space representation of a wavefunction

  • SeM
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Graduate Integral ##\int_{-1}^{1} [P_{l}^{m}]^2 ln [P_{l}^{m}]^2 dx##

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Undergrad Probability vs radial density-confusion

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Undergrad Wave Functions of Definite Momentum

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Undergrad Does the path Integral contain virtual particles?

  • friend
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Undergrad Probability of Staying in x<0 for Superposition of 2 Gaussians

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Graduate Hilbert space notation in topological quantum field theory

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Undergrad Where Does the Energy Go in a Quantum System with 3 Possible Measurements?

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Undergrad Can a wave-function be a combination of states with different energies?

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Undergrad Probability amplitude between non-eigenstate quantum states

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Undergrad Will a uniform magnetic field be considered as measurment?

  • Adel Makram
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High School Alain Aspect's experiment setting

  • Joao
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High School Is energy the same as matter in physics?

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Undergrad Berry phase, Bra-Ket and gradient

  • Lucy166
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Undergrad What is the Conservation of Information in Quantum Mechanics?

  • Samo_phy
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Undergrad Measurement of a particle's position using photons

  • Frank Castle
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High School Computing electron gyromagnetic ratio in lattice QFT

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Undergrad What is "unitary evolution" of something in physics?

  • Suekdccia
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Graduate Does measurement preserve unitarity in quantum mechanics?

  • kdv
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Undergrad Why there must be a way of including gravity into a quantum theory?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Insights Introduction to Perturbative Quantum Field Theory - Comments

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High School Can Fermions Exhibit Negative Chemical Potential Like Bosons?

  • Vrbic
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High School Why is light reflected at the same angle rather than isotropically?

  • Vrbic
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High School What is the Meaning of Abstraction in Modern Physics?

  • Ken Ucarp
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Graduate Why is the Dirac Hamiltonian with commutation relations unbounded below?

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High School Understanding Measurements / Collapse

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High School How do particles become entangled?

  • ISamson
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Undergrad Double sided arrow notation in Dirac Field Lagrangian

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Undergrad Under what conditions do the Zeno and anti Zeno effects occur?

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Undergrad Quantum entanglement, wave-function collapse

  • Tara Sunray
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Graduate Different types of interference phenomena in physics

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Undergrad Why does the Hermitian operator condition flip the operator in the bra?

  • WWCY
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Undergrad How Does Shankar Transition from Sums to Integrals in Feynman Path Integrals?

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High School Schroedinger Equation and Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Are RF Photons Present in NMR Spectroscopy?

  • Frank Peters
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Graduate Why does de Broglie-Bohm theory require non-locality?

  • sanman
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High School Inner product of functions of continuous variable

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Undergrad Contour integral from "QFT for the gifted amateur"

  • marcom
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Undergrad Invariant element integrand

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Multiplying wavefunction with complexnumber.

  • olgerm
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Undergrad 1s orbital overlaps with the nucleus, why don't they interact?

  • rumborak
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Undergrad Trying to understand Dirac Hamiltonian

  • Tio Barnabe
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