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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Field Variations - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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High School Casimir effect, energy conservation

  • Gabriele Pinna
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Geometry - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Lagrangians - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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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

  • Anj123
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Graduate Shor's algorithm - need to uncompute auxiliary qubits?

  • jarekduda
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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

  • PGaccount
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Undergrad Canonical Quantization: Proving the Theory

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

  • Isaac0427
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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 How Can Fermi Pressure Be Explained in Relativistic Conditions?

  • 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

  • Fruit Water
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Undergrad Understanding Continuous Variable QKD

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

  • SunRay-dvsh
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Undergrad Dirac equation solved in Weyl representation

  • Milsomonk
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Undergrad Anihilation operator expression: is there a typo here?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Superposition States: Is TDSE & TISE Satisfied? Check Here

  • dyn
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Undergrad Can Photons travel faster than c?

  • Electric to be
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Undergrad Feynman Path Integral: Teaching and Questions

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Fluorescence from core shell quantum dots

  • avkr
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Graduate Question about QFT Diagrams and their Integrals

  • Opus_723
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High School Understanding Particle Spins: A Beginner's Guide

  • ISamson
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Graduate Can there be a subquantum level?

  • quiet
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Undergrad Alternate form of wave equation

  • Daniel Sellers
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Undergrad Exploring Multi Particle States: Fermions vs. Bosons

  • 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

  • Urs Schreiber
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Undergrad Multiplying a wavefunction by a constant number

  • dyn
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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##

  • dongsh2
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Undergrad Probability vs radial density-confusion

  • cr7einstein
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Undergrad Wave Functions of Definite Momentum

  • Jimmy87
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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

  • WWCY
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Graduate Topological Quantum Field Theory: Help reading a paper

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

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

  • dRic2
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Undergrad Amplitude to go from one state to another

  • Opus_723
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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?

  • jubalsquirrelly
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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 Electron gyromagnetic ratio & lattice qft

  • star apple
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Undergrad What is "unitary evolution" of something in physics?

  • Suekdccia
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Graduate A question about the information loss paradox

  • 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

  • Urs Schreiber
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High School Can Fermions Exhibit Negative Chemical Potential Like Bosons?

  • Vrbic
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High School Reflection of light from the mirror

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

  • Ken Ucarp
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Graduate What does it mean for the Hamiltonian to not be bounded?

  • Turbotanten
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High School Understanding Measurements / Collapse

  • 1977ub
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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

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

  • Trollfaz
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Undergrad Quantum entanglement, wave-function collapse

  • Tara Sunray
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Graduate General definition of interferences clarification

  • Leo1233783
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Undergrad Hermitian Operators: Referencing Griffiths

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

  • Opus_723
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High School Schroedinger Equation and Hamiltonian

  • mieral
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Undergrad Are RF Photons Present in NMR Spectroscopy?

  • Frank Peters
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Graduate Pilot Wave Theory & Non-Locality

  • sanman
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High School Inner product of functions of continuous variable

  • Ibraheem
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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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Undergrad Can Electric Fields Affect the Unruh Temperature of Vacuum Fluctuations?

  • jcap
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High School Teacher needs help: Bra–ket notation for parabolas?

  • whitsona
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Undergrad Is the fine structure constant the biggest myth ever?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Graduate Qualitative Explanation of Density Operator

  • astrofunk21
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High School Is Quantum Foam the Key to Understanding Unifying Theories?

  • sirios
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Undergrad Does Conscious Observation Affect the Outcome of the Double-Slit Experiment?

  • bobos1997
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Graduate Relativity implies antimatter?

  • angus podgorny
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High School Dual meaning of "measurement" in QM

  • zonde
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Graduate ‘Transverse Field Ising Spin’-compatible Super Hamiltonian

  • ProgrammingGodJordan
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Undergrad Does slowing light with a BEC change any of its properties?

  • AamsterC2
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Undergrad Is the Quantum Eraser Experiment Misunderstood in Pop Science?

  • Trollfaz
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High School Entanglement: How Does it Work and Its Implications in Everyday Life?

  • nnope
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High School What is the energy of virtual particles in a vacuum?

  • sirios
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High School Quantum Mechanics & Parallel Universes: No-Cloning Rule

  • Lunct
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Undergrad Can Different Multiplications of ψ(x) and Φ(t) Result in Solutions to TDSE?

  • yosimba2000
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