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High School Could we “cheat” and send a message back in time with a measurement?

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High School Why can't entangled particles have pre-defined orientations?

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High School What does it mean for a macroscopic glass sphere to be in its lowest quantum state?

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Insights Schrödinger’s Cat and the Qbit

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Undergrad Derivation of "polarization drift" in a plasma

  • Axel Togawa
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Undergrad Valid to use <1/r3> to get spin-orbit correction to H? (perturbation)

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Undergrad Measuring Second-Order Correlation Function with Start and Stop Signal

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Graduate Do entanglement networks encode a unique, local historical record?

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High School Transferring information faster than the speed of light

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Undergrad Field Operator for Edge States

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Graduate Can humans really create the quantum computer they expected?

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Undergrad Tunneling with Gaussian Wave Packet

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Undergrad Researchers find experimental evidence for a graviton-like particle

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Undergrad A measured spin is still a Qbit

  • Gary Venter
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Undergrad Can Heisenberg uncertainty explain single-slit diffraction patterns?

  • J O Linton
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Undergrad Quantum Eraser Experiment at home

  • Bila
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Undergrad Single slit diffraction and the HUP

  • J O Linton
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Undergrad Breaking the Light Speed Barrier?

  • SWIRF
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Undergrad The photoelectric effect: What frequency does υₛ refer to in the work function?

  • JACKR
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Graduate Interpreting the energy density of QFT vacuum states

  • math-physicist
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Undergrad Ground state returning to initial state with Gaussian perturbation at ω but not 2ω

  • Rayan
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High School Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle with non-point particles ?

  • Standard
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Undergrad Different Approaches to the Time Dependent Variational Principle

  • Matthew_
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High School Question about Bell's inequalities and 3-particle entanglement

  • Isaac Hart
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Undergrad Finite potential well transmission coefficient

  • lys04
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Undergrad Testing superposition of spacetime curvature

  • Maximus_Ann
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Undergrad [QFT-Schwartz Page. 256] Violation of operator exponentiation rule ?

  • Golak Bage
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High School Quantum teleportation of usable information

  • Isaac Hart
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Graduate What is the meaning of "Amplitude of Detection" in A. Zee's QFT book?

  • Golak Bage
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Undergrad Why do hermitian operators give measurement values as eigenvalues?

  • deuteron
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Undergrad Color charge is not scalar -- do their components have dimensions?

  • south
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Undergrad The Dirac equation as a linear tensor equation for one component

  • akhmeteli
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Undergrad Generalized Eigenvalues of Pauli Matrices

  • thatboi
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Undergrad Planck's Constant times the speed of light

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Eigenstates of particle with 1/2 spin (qbit)

  • cianfa72
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Undergrad If the gravitational constant had a different value

  • Ranku
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Graduate How produce twin photons in practice?

  • Quant
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Undergrad What are anomalies in quantum field theory?

  • KleinMoretti
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Undergrad Qubits state calculation

  • Hennessy
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics formalisms and conservation of energy

  • KleinMoretti
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Undergrad When and why can ∂p/∂t=0 in position space?

  • George Keeling
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Undergrad EPR in Bohm formulation

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Undergrad How to enter measurement results into Bell inequality?

  • greypilgrim
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Undergrad Why doesn't gravity cause double-slit decoherence?

  • oknow
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High School Could energy be destroyed during particle annihilation?

  • KleinMoretti
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Undergrad Bell tests: Changing detector settings "just before photon arrives"

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Graduate X measurement modeled in non-separable Hilbert space

  • normvcr
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Undergrad Klein-Gordon Equation with boundary conditions

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Graduate Testing antimatter fundamentals

  • WeeWillieWinkie
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Undergrad Conservation of energy and wave function collapse

  • KleinMoretti
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Undergrad How to "derive" momentum operator in position basis using STE?

  • LightPhoton
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Undergrad Freqeuncy of Matter Waves Approaches Infinity as Velocity Approaches c

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Undergrad Material Waves and Wave Functions

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High School How do quantum phenomena affect macroscopic phenomena?

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Graduate Mixed quantum state of the Bose-Einstein distribution

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Undergrad Quantum particle's state in momentum eigenfunctions basis

  • cianfa72
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High School Using Interference Principles to Increase the Efficiency of Solar Panels

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Undergrad Is quantum interference an instantaneous consequence of superposition ?

  • Husserliana97
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Graduate How to know the number of Feynman diagrams for a given order?

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Undergrad Completeness of Eigenfunctions of Hermitian Operators

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Undergrad Does gravity cause quantum decoherence?

  • Kinker
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Graduate What is decoherence?

  • PeterDonis
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Undergrad Original HBT experiment with mercury isotope lamp

  • Swamp Thing
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Graduate Spontaneous emission and coherence

  • kelly0303
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Undergrad How is spin exchange interaction generalised to many electrons?

  • gaiussheh
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Undergrad Electrons keeping dynamical quantum fluctuations?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Observing observables of an entity

  • quantum philosopher
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High School Does a photon's energy change as it refracts?

  • maxelcat
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Undergrad Does entanglement always conserve something?

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Qbit pure vs mixed state space

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Graduate A particle locked inside an arrangement of Dirac delta potentials

  • hilbert2
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Undergrad Wave packet interpretation

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Undergrad Representation of Spin 1/2 quantum state

  • cianfa72
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Undergrad Energy and momentum of a photon in a medium

  • weafq
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Undergrad Radiation from solid black bodies

  • Philip Koeck
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Undergrad How many spots will a rotating Stern-Gerlach apparatus produce?

  • Old Person
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High School Can objects in nature store light information on the quantum level?

  • Maximum7
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Undergrad Your Favorite Feynman Diagram?

  • Devin Powell
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Undergrad Quantum Hall Effect and Hall Voltage

  • Salamon
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Graduate QFT Superposition of Final States

  • masteralien
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Undergrad Subtractive mode intensity interferometry?

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Electron counterpart of pseudothermal light source for quantum experiments

  • Swamp Thing
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High School Electron's movement after getting hit by a photon that bounces at 90 degrees

  • swnsy05
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High School Origins of the no-cloning theorem

  • martix
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Undergrad Feedback on Educational Script: What's a particle in QFT?

  • norwegian_hobby_sci
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Undergrad Are Superposition, the Uncertainty Principle, and Duality the same?

  • eow
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Graduate Vacuum Energy from Correlation Functions

  • masteralien
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Fluctuations Shape Cosmic Structures?

  • Leandro Bolonini
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Undergrad About nature of superposition of states

  • HighPhy
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Undergrad Infinite momentum is impossible, boundary term in integration by parts

  • George Keeling
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Undergrad Is the Black Hole Information Paradox Truly Resolved?

  • KleinMoretti
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Undergrad Artificially discretized quantum states - is it a thing?

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Displacement operation acting on individual quadrature components

  • waadles
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Graduate How Are Rotations on the Bloch Sphere Implemented in Practice?

  • kelly0303
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Undergrad Phonon emission : Discrete event or a process with inner detail?

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad "Wave-particle duality" and double-slit experiment

  • HighPhy
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High School Double Slit Experiment: Dumb question that needs to be asked

  • Quarinteen
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Undergrad Feynman discussion of electron diffraction

  • elou
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High School Disappearance of interference pattern in double slit

  • elou
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Undergrad Example of SO(2) being not simply connected

  • Hill
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