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Undergrad How can you visualize the Higgs field, or can you?
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Undergrad Spontaneous Absorption of Photons in Two State Quantum System
- Smalde
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Undergrad Finding probability of changing states
- TheCanadian
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Graduate How to understand the electric-field operator?
- Jeffrey Yang
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High School Polytropic process with heat addition
- Rakesh bhatoa
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Undergrad Could you provide me a selection rule?
- goodphy
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Undergrad What is a time-dependent operator?
- weezy
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High School Understanding Different Quantum Interactions
- jackferry
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Undergrad Confused about operator action
- dyn
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Undergrad Defining a pulse of particular area
- TheCanadian
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Graduate Fock space and Poincaré invariance
- Gedankenspiel
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Undergrad Mind Bending Double-Slit Diffraction Thought Experiment
- theoligarch dot com
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High School Is Gravitational Quantization Supported by the Stability of Orbital Electrons?
- Cato
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Undergrad Understanding Space-Time & Fields: A Flowchart Guide
- Quest_Ion
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High School Neutrinos and Fermi-Dirac Distribution
- TDanskin
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Undergrad What is the reason behind uncertainty principle?
- weezy
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High School What is the reason for Schrodinger's cat experiment?
- steveJOBS
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Graduate Interpreting the K-G Annihilation Operator Expression
- bolbteppa
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Undergrad Can a Discontinuous Wave Function Be Acceptable in Quantum Mechanics?
- Moses Lee
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Undergrad Understanding ΔEΔt uncertainty
- hideelo
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Undergrad Understanding Internal State in Quantum Systems with Cold Atoms
- KFC
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High School Understanding Correlations in Non-Realism: The Role of Extra Variables?
- gva
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High School Wave Function of a Proton in a Box with a Slide
- Einstein's Cat
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Graduate QFT and transitions between momentum states
- hilbert2
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High School Is Wigner's Friend the Key to Understanding Wave Function Collapse?
- gva
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Graduate Uncertainties in Poisson processes
- marco1235
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Undergrad The Lagrangian of a Coherent State
- Blabbityblobo667
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High School Should Fourier Transforms Be Taught Before the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
- houlahound
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High School How does Bell's inequality rule out realism?
- PhysicsEntanglment
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Undergrad Field eigenstates and path integral formulation
- Alhaurin
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Graduate Conjugate variable clarification
- anorlunda
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Undergrad Time evolution after "turning off" square well
- Swamp Thing
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Undergrad What is the angle in the action-angle uncertainty principle?
- nomadreid
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High School Other terms for indeterministic hidden variables
- gva
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Undergrad Two photon absorption or multi-photon absorption?
- fog37
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High School Why is probability defined in space rather than at a point in quantum mechanics?
- Naman Jain Kota
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High School Is an Electron Both a Wave and a Particle Simultaneously?
- Deepak K Kapur
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Undergrad Quantum Superposition While Observing Phenomena?
- DQuantum14
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High School Energy density of charged capacitor via QFT
- Spinnor
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Undergrad Strong Force and Wave function collapse
- Bill Myk
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Undergrad What is the Eigenvalue of Coherent States?
- dyn
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High School No problem, glad I could help!
- Dexter Neutron
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Undergrad Is There a Reliable Source Code for Quantum Key Distribution?
- okigbo anthony
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Graduate Double Slit--closing a slit while particle is in flight
- tpeabody
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High School Classical experiment violates Bell
- DirkMan
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High School Schrodinger cat superperposition vs sharp state
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Graduate Green's function at boundaries
- mupsi
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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser scanning telescope
- 0xDEAD BEEF
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Undergrad Big Freeze: Resolving the Universe's End?
- Galactic explosion
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Undergrad Planck-Einstein: how does it separate classical from Quantum?
- Zero-shift
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Undergrad Infinite square well solution - periodic boundary conditions
- McLaren Rulez
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Undergrad A thought about parallel universe
- rizkiyoist
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Undergrad What is the relation between Temperature and Quantum State?
- jonjacson
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High School Does weak measurement cause mixed state?
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Undergrad Radioactive decay, falling pencils and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Quantum Computing: Difference vs Normal Computers
- MasterSashin04
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Undergrad What happens to Quantum decoherence at Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad Regarding the eigenvalues of the translation operator
- otaKu
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Undergrad Calculation of vibronic couplings
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Undergrad Relationship of Light's Wavelengthvs and Probability Wave?
- Chris Frisella
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Undergrad Impossible to exclude hidden variables without entanglement?
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Undergrad Is the uncertainty principle an ontological statement?
- Happiness
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High School Does quantum physics imply the existence of randomness?
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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle: Theorem or Principle?
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High School Pseudorandomness of correlation
- entropy1
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Undergrad Justification for introducting "Disentaglers" in MERA
- Jimster41
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Undergrad QFT vs Wave Function: Understanding Particle States
- MichPod
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Graduate Unitary evolution while rapid change of potential?
- jarekduda
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Undergrad Question about superposition and measurement
- edenenix15
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High School After the 'Theoretical minimum' series, what is essential to know about QM?
- entropy1
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Undergrad Hyperfine splitting and relative intensity of spectral lines
- victorhugo
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Undergrad Question on photoelectric effect and this particular experim
- CJit
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High School Superposition at absolute zero
- DirkMan
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High School QFT for Gifted Amateurs: Preparing for Advanced QFT
- Mr-R
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Undergrad Clarify interaction between real and virtual particles....
- asimov42
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Undergrad Quantum Darwinism and Consciousness (?)
- durant35
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Graduate A Closer Look at Squeezed Light and Its Effects on OPA
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Undergrad Evenly pump a sphere of lasing material
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Undergrad Kronecker delta by using creation/annihilation operators
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Undergrad What is the significance of the semicolon in function notation?
- Swamp Thing
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Undergrad How "spooky action...." may work?
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High School Decoherence and Counterfactual Definiteness
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Graduate Qn on photon statistics (second order correlation function)
- Tainty
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High School Quantum Communication: Entanglement, Interference & FTL
- ed777
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Graduate Why are the Tadpole Equations Called so?
- Kfir Dolev
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Graduate Renormalization Scheme Dependence of Vevs
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High School Photon red shifting and Doppler effect
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Undergrad Highly localized initial psi in harmonic well
- Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Quantum to Classical: "comprehensible"?
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High School Counterfactual definiteness and correlation
- entropy1
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High School Are photons particles or waves?
- Fiziqs
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Undergrad What determines the charge of a field?
- carllacan
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Undergrad Why Is the Photoelectric Effect Considered Proof of Light's Particle Nature?
- Dr. Manoj
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High School I'm conducting an Experiment -- Moving my hand through a wall
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Undergrad Schrodinger equation in terms of complex conjugate
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Undergrad Density of states with delta function
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High School Where did the energy of red shifted CMB go?
- 1832vin
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High School Dirac Equation vs Wave Function
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Graduate Transforming Spin Matrices (Sx, Sy, Sz) to a Spherical Basis
- chi_rho
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Undergrad Why the tensor product (historical question)?
- greypilgrim
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