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Undergrad Question about discussions around quantum interpretations
Graduate Vacuum Energy from Correlation Functions
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Fluctuations Shape Cosmic Structures?
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Undergrad About nature of superposition of states
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Undergrad Infinite momentum is impossible, boundary term in integration by parts
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Undergrad Is the Black Hole Information Paradox Truly Resolved?
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Undergrad Artificially discretized quantum states - is it a thing?
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Undergrad Displacement operation acting on individual quadrature components
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Graduate How Are Rotations on the Bloch Sphere Implemented in Practice?
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Undergrad Phonon emission : Discrete event or a process with inner detail?
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Undergrad "Wave-particle duality" and double-slit experiment
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High School Double Slit Experiment: Dumb question that needs to be asked
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Undergrad Feynman discussion of electron diffraction
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High School Disappearance of interference pattern in double slit
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Undergrad Example of SO(2) being not simply connected
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Undergrad Conservation of energy after measurement
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Undergrad Fundamental representation and adjoint representation
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Undergrad Double Check Normalization Condition
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Graduate Question about Propagators in QFT
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Graduate Gravity Measured with Milligram masses
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Graduate Noise in Landau–Zener transition
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Graduate Understanding the Limitations of Electron Spin Resonance
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Undergrad Number of qubits needed to simulate the universe
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Graduate Vector field vs. four scalar fields ("QFT and the SM", Schwartz)
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Graduate Fisher information from likelihood function for quantum circuits
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Undergrad Why do orthogonal polarizers at slits eliminate interference pattern?
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Undergrad Is conservation of energy a local law in Quantum field theory?
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Undergrad Why is there no single slit interference when one slit is closed in a double slit experiment?
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Graduate Does Matter Really Move Like a Wave and Hit Like a Particle?
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Undergrad How does a band pass filter increase the time of arrival of photons?
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Undergrad Is the uncertainty principle applicable to single slit diffraction?
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Graduate How was the symmetry used here? ("QFT and the SM" by Schwartz)
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Undergrad Are vacuum energy and vacuum fluctuations the same thing?
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Undergrad Can a Third Particle Be Entangled with Two Existing Particles Without Breaking Their Entanglement?
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Undergrad Heisenberg Equations of Motion for Electron in EM-field
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Graduate Derivation of energy-momentum tensor in "QFT and the SM" by Schwartz
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Graduate Derivation of QM limit of QFT in "QFT and the SM" by Schwartz
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Undergrad Speed of information in a medium
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High School How addition of vectors works if every force is quantized
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What does lambda in nuclear decay mean if it is big?
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Undergrad Tunneling of light through thin metal films
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Undergrad Electron wave addition using phasor diagram
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High School Is it possible to find the energy level of a hydrogen atom in this way?
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Undergrad Robertson uncertainty relation for the angular momentum components
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Undergrad Is the Vacuum Energy Density Sign Correct for Bosons?
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Undergrad Constant phase factors in wavefunctions
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Undergrad How Does a Qubit Exist as Both 1 and 0 Simultaneously?
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Undergrad When does the separation of variables work
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Undergrad I want to expand a Gaussian wavepacket in terms of sines
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Undergrad Can a single photon of a single frequency pass through a FP cavity?
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Undergrad How Do You Compute the Density Matrix of a Bipartite State?
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Undergrad Noether's Theorem in the Presence of a Charged Operator
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Undergrad The lore on complex probabilities
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Undergrad Derivation of normal Zeeman-Effect
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Undergrad Is a Time Rotation Operator Analogous to Spatial Rotations Possible?
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Undergrad Electromagnetic radiation, photons, quantized energy levels
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Undergrad Are All Photons Truly Virtual?
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Undergrad The classical concept of work in a QCD context?
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Undergrad Virtuals particles, vacuum and infinite energy
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Undergrad The theory on the effects of polarizers on particles wavefunctions
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Undergrad TISE solutions should be combinations-of-eigenstates, why this is not?
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Undergrad Is this a valid quantum Cheshire cat?
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Undergrad Spin state, base transformation
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Graduate Question on Zeno time derivation
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Graduate Dimensions: Emergent from the Big Bang?
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Graduate Question about a research result: Feedback on whether the result is publishable
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Undergrad Basic question about Bra-Ket notation
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High School Entanglement & Superposition Probabilities
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High School How are the spins of two entangled photons measured at light speed?
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Graduate Can wave particle dualism be replaced by a monistic model?
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Undergrad Very basic questions about operators in QM
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Undergrad Why don't we bury Schrodinger's Cat?
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Undergrad Coefficients in the Schrodinger equation and the momentum operator
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Undergrad A probability of field amplitude in QFT
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Graduate What happens when entangled photons are split into different paths?
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High School Antiparticles moving opposite direction in time?
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Undergrad Double slit experiment with observer
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Undergrad Understanding the Derivation of the Ginzburg Criterion for the Ising Model
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High School Are Schrodinger's cat and the double slit experiment the same idea?
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High School Schrödingers cat, is it just mumbo-jumbo?
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Graduate Relationship between bare and renormalized beta functions
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Undergrad Normalization of wave functions
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Undergrad Is the photon field a vector field and a gauge field?
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Graduate Quantitative description of successive Stern-Gerlach measurements
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Undergrad Most Likely Position of an Electron
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Undergrad Commutators, operators and eigenvalues
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Undergrad How non-conscious can an Observer be and cause wave function collapse?
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High School Is the Born rule truly independent from other postulates in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Don't understand equation with overleftrightarrow symbol
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High School Quantum Physics Can Explain Earth’s Weather
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Graduate Can particles appear and disappear "with" a cause?
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High School Lifespan of a Photon: Debunking the Myth of Time Travel
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Undergrad Why must the state transformation be unitary?
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Undergrad The Delayed Choice experiment: Is Photon speed important?
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High School Does the Wavefunction of an Electron Collapse When Captured by a Proton?
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Undergrad The electron is not point-like?
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Undergrad I cannot normalise this: F= Cexp(-r/a)
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Undergrad Question about Photons causing Electron Transitions in Atoms
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Undergrad Understanding Ground State Degeneracy in the Transverse Ising Model
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Graduate Feynman loop diagrams and Dyson series for anomalous magnetic moment
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Graduate Understanding Ghost Fields in QED: Eliminating Unphysical Degrees of Freedom"
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