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Undergrad Electron wavefunction as an overlap of orbitals

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Undergrad Why can you write the solution in this form?

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Undergrad Are quantum harmonic oscillators and radiation modes equal?

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Graduate What does a CPT transformation do to particle properties?

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Graduate Bright, dark soliton for cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrodinger

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High School How did we measure the mass of Quarks?

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Undergrad Wave-Particle Duality of Electrons

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High School Why only certain colors in emission spectrum are visible?

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Undergrad Does realism imply locality or vice versa?

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Undergrad What is an Eigenstate in Relation to Schrodinger Equation?

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Undergrad Shor Algorithm - Post measurement state

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High School Does photon arrival time vary with interference fringe position?

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Undergrad Does reality really exist when not measured?

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Undergrad Cosmological constant estimation in QFT

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High School How does string theory fit with QFT?

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Undergrad Why not describing the radiatation of atom spectrum by TDSE

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Graduate Key problems in classical and quantum measurement

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Graduate DC conductivity limit of susceptibility with imaginary frequency shift

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Undergrad Could Wormholes and Entanglement Be Connected?

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Graduate Classical intr. ang mom and quantum intr ang mom relation

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Graduate Challenges to QED from hyperfine measurements

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Undergrad Partially entangled(W), Maximally and disentangled states

  • Noora Alameri
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Undergrad Effect of Homog./Non-Homog. Magnetic Field in Heisenberg Spin System

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Undergrad Bose-Einstein condensates coherence

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Undergrad What mathematics do I need to learn quantum physics?

  • Michel Raskin
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High School How decoherence destroys superpositions

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Undergrad Does quantum mechanics refute materialism?

  • SeoKyu
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Undergrad Do Bell experiments disprove local realism?

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Undergrad Transition state of electrons in molecules

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Undergrad Factorising expectation values

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Undergrad Smallest possible orbit and velocity of a particle?

  • jamie.j1989
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Undergrad Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment?

  • Steven Ellet
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Undergrad Why probability current = 0 at infinity? Why must wavefunction be continuous?

  • Happiness
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Undergrad What's the significance of the phase in a coherent state?

  • vancouver_water
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Undergrad Differences in photons from protons vs photons from e-?

  • Idunno
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Undergrad Is the Phase Velocity of a Massive Particle Representing Anything Physical?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Is Bell's Theorem Valid Despite Fundamental Theoretical Loopholes?

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Undergrad Is the Fermion number operator squared equal to itself?

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Graduate Do Haag's theorem and Wightman axioms solve real problems in QFT?

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High School Quantum tunneling - Questions about some pop-science claims

  • Jeronimus
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High School When do we know where an object is

  • Daniel Huren
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High School Bell Non Locality, Quantum Non Locality, Weak Locality, CDP

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High School Question about a beam of light

  • Mosio
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High School How can something be "Zero Dimensional?"

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Undergrad Inequality for the time evolution of an overlap

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Undergrad Neutron Stars: Flipping Up Quarks to Down Quarks

  • WildBill
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Undergrad Particle antiparticle creation

  • Michel Raskin
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Undergrad A particle measured in a too high potential

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Undergrad Can a confined electron field propagate through a spherical barrier in QFT?

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High School Double Slit Experiment: Detection around slit?

  • Andy_K
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Undergrad How to compute second-order variation of an action?

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad Electron jelly model and Hydrogen Atom

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Undergrad The Fundamental Nature of Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics

  • Jezza
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High School Do electrons have color like light does?

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Graduate Wigner-Eckart theorem and reduced matrix element

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Undergrad Identical Particle States in a Unidimensional Box

  • JamesHG
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Undergrad Heat energy: statistical mechanics vs atomic orbitals

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Graduate Proof of equation 2.64 for harmonic oscillator ladder operators

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Graduate Can Zeta ζ(½+it) be interpreted as a Wave function?

  • Jason C
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Graduate Operators in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Is quantum tunneling in biology still an active research area?

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Undergrad Electron capture and electron transitions.

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Undergrad Arithmetic Block in Shor Algorithm

  • Ricardo Belchior
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Graduate Operation of Hamiltonian roots on wave functions

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Undergrad Adding types of angular momenta

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Undergrad Can a free electron absorb and re-emit a photon in Compton scattering?

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Undergrad Laser vs photodiodes and spectra

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High School Why does waveform exp[iwt] have negative kinetic energy?

  • Happiness
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Undergrad Can electron wavefunction amplitudes change from zero to nonzero instantaneously?

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Pauli spin matrices and Eigen spinors

  • Rahulrj
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Undergrad Bell's theorem and Superdeterminism

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Undergrad What counts as measurement in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad What Came First the Magnet or the Field?

  • Dadface
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Undergrad Angular momentum operator commutation relation

  • Bernard
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High School Is Inversion Symmetry Found in Nature or Technology?

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Undergrad Orbital angular momentum of light

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Undergrad Time independent Schrodinger equation results (1D)

  • WrongMan
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Undergrad Renormalisation and the Landau pole

  • Dadface
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Undergrad Why does SU(2) have 3 parameters/generators like the SO(3)?

  • TimeRip496
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Undergrad Do the vacuum states created by soft photons have vacuum flu

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Examples of quantum objects behaving like neither waves nor particles

  • LarryS
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Undergrad How does time reversal invariance work with a falling ball?

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Why does classical wave packet uncertainty lead to ΔkΔx~1?

  • CookieSalesman
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Graduate Vacuum polarization at intermediate distances

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Undergrad Single-mode field quantization Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Maximally entangled state expression and generalization

  • Noora Alameri
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Undergrad Why do I get to a contradiction?

  • Gjmdp
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High School How to change electron and proton charge

  • Quantum Velocity
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Undergrad Why do spin-1/2 kets rotate in ordinary 3D space if they live in 2D Hilbert space?

  • mindarson
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Graduate Can a Point-Like Particle Defy the Uncertainty Principle?

  • mikeyork
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Graduate Physics Challenge by QuantumQuest #1

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Information Theory and Entropy

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Graduate Peskin/Schroeder 4.77 page (about cross-sections)

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Graduate Non-Heisenberg Uncertainty Relations

  • Larry
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Graduate Double slit experiment wave interference?

  • Mario Rossi
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High School Double slit and randomly functioning measuring devices

  • phillovix
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High School Energy of Gamma Ray Photon with Wavelength h

  • Daniel Petka
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Undergrad Klein-Gordon Operator: Creating Particles at Position x

  • Silviu
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High School Trying to understand the double-slit experiment

  • Bruce Barron
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High School Does a photon travel in a straight line when its probability amplitude is zero?

  • Daniel Petka
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