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Graduate Universal quantum physics
Undergrad Understanding POVM: A Simple Explanation
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Undergrad Do photons that carry orbital angular momentum have mass?
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Undergrad The "complete state" of an electron
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Undergrad Please help me understand quantum tunneling conceptually?
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Graduate Busting the myth of the observer: the double slit experiment
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Undergrad What is the Waveform of Virtual Photons?
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High School Is the Universe Just a Computer Simulation?
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Graduate Is Each Pair in a Tripartite Cubic System in a Bell State?
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Undergrad Occam's razor and probability in QM
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Graduate Why is the Matter wave analogous to photon and derived from it?
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High School Need Listing of Photon and Particle Quantum States
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Undergrad Interpreting These '2 Particles in a Box' Plots
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Undergrad Is nuclear fission a quantum fluctuation
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Graduate Path integral formula for a state with non-trivial time dependency
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High School Does Material Type Affect Double Slit Interference Patterns?
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High School Bypassing Pauli Exclusion principle.
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Undergrad Are fixup operations required for entanglement in photon splitting?
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Undergrad Doppler Shift and Light Quanta: Questions on the Nature of Light and Observation
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Undergrad Particle in the box eigenfunctions
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Undergrad What Are Quantum Operators and the Role of Hermitian Matrices in Degeneracy?
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Undergrad Harmonic Oscillator equivalence
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Graduate Expert on Wick's Theorem needed
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High School Why did famous people think consciousness causes collapse?
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High School "Decoherence usually requires interaction with something macroscopic and an environment"
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Undergrad "Iterativity" of quantum potential?
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High School Understanding Environment-Induced Superselection in Quantum Systems
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Undergrad A few questions about Feynman's QED Lecture
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Undergrad The absolute value of the frequency in quantum mechanics
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High School Double slit experiment -- consciousness and information
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Undergrad Rotational excitation of quantum particle
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Graduate Is my solution of time-dependent Schrodinger equation right?
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High School Understanding Quantum Mechanics: The Puzzle of Cutting a Pencil in MWI
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Undergrad Amplitudes, Probabilities and EPR
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Undergrad How Does Bell's Inequality Reveal Quantum Nonlocality?
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Undergrad On the Heisenberg uncertainty relation
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Average Orbital Kinetic Energy for Silicon?
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Undergrad How Does Semiclassical State Counting Relate to Quantum Energy Eigenstates?
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Undergrad Gravitational Effect on Electron Eigenstates
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Undergrad Odd/even symmetric/antisymmetric
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High School Practical applications of quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Expectation of an operator (observable) how to calculate it
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High School Neutron, White Dwarfs and Degeneracy Pressure
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Undergrad From Pauli spinors to Dirac spinors
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Undergrad Quantum Computing: Learn to Start From Scratch
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Graduate Do all photons really follow all available paths?
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High School How close are we to uniting gravity and QM
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Undergrad Questions regarding Hawking radiation
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Undergrad What 'Collapses' the Wavefunction of the Universe?
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Undergrad Calculating Subsystem B Probability in a Two-System Setup
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Undergrad Examples where mixed states are eigenstates
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Undergrad How Do Symmetry Properties Affect Boltzmann Distributions for Bosonic Particles?
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Undergrad The Wavefunction and eigenstates
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Undergrad Why isn't tunnelling considered proof of hidden variables?
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High School Possible Recoherence After Wave Function Collapse?
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Undergrad GRE related question in Quantum
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High School Has anyone tested a polarization filter sending through photon by photon?
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Undergrad Equations of motion from Born-Infeld Lagrangian
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High School Subsystem has no wave function
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Undergrad Electroweak Bosons: Examining W1, W2, W3
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High School Marble Ball as a Subsystem in Quantum Decoherence
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Graduate Photon number needless conservation, consolidation possible?
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Undergrad Superfluidic Quantum Computer?
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Undergrad Spectrum energy of a particle moving on a circumference
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High School How to make the wave collapse in double-slit experiment
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Undergrad Is Observable A Invariant Under Symmetry Generators G_i?
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Undergrad Stern-Gerlach experiment questions
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Undergrad What is the physical interpretation of eigenstates in quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Difference between Scattering and Emission of Photons
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High School Entanglement Distance: Explained for Beginners
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Undergrad Quantum tunneling in symmetry breaking
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Undergrad Is entanglement severed by wave function collapse?
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Undergrad Can Photons Be Accelerated by Altering Their Path?
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High School Untangled Photon - Commonplace or Fictional?
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Undergrad Entanglement spin swaps are instantaneous?
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Undergrad Lagrangian for electromagnetic field derivation
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Undergrad Double slit experiment questions
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Undergrad Vacuum energy cutoff and Lorentz invariance....
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High School Is the Double Slit Experiment Essential for Understanding Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Applying Euler-Lagrange to (real) Klein-Gordon Lagrangian
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Undergrad Maximum practical size of a BEC
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Undergrad On Wave Function Collapse and Accuracy of Energy Measurment
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Undergrad Early Quantum Entanglement Experiments basic question?
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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between Virtual and Ordinary Statistical Ensembles?
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Graduate Vacuum birefringence QFT treatment
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Graduate Squeezed Light & NonLinear Optics
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Undergrad A contradiction in quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Path integral implies superluminal motion?
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Undergrad Photon-Photon Coupling (Gamma-Gamma)
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High School Weak nuclear force - circumstances in which it is manifested
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Undergrad Are Eigenstates of operators always stationary states?
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Undergrad Distinguishing classical physics vs. quantum physics
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Undergrad Symmetric, self-adjoint operators and the spectral theorem
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Undergrad How Can Multi-Particle Interference Help Clarify Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Any good lay explanation of the Schrödinger cat duality?
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Undergrad Does the electron have charge?
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Undergrad Two quantum states and qubits....
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High School Distinguish Contextual ,Non Local,Non Realistic (Non CFD)
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Undergrad Problem with CHSH's version of Bell's inequalities
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Undergrad Classicality in Bell's original reasoning
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Undergrad NMR: RF-pulse response away from equilibrium
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