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Undergrad Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle & Wave Function

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement Harvesting

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Undergrad When can one clear the operator

  • Ernesto Paas
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Undergrad Rotational-Vibrational Energy state equation derivation

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Undergrad Width of a stationary wave packet as a function of time

  • Bernard
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High School Mixed states V superposition V linear combinations?

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Undergrad Square of absolute value of amplitude for a single photon

  • DavidReishi
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Graduate Integration of Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Hamiltonian and constant potential

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Undergrad Question about Quantum teleportation

  • AleksanderPhy
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Undergrad Quantum Spin Liquid: New State of Matter Explained

  • Kevin McHugh
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Graduate Performing Bell State Measurement in Teleportation

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Undergrad Density matrices, pure states and mixed states

  • entropy1
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Undergrad What is an electron's orbital angular momentum?

  • edguy99
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Undergrad A question about reduced density matrices

  • naima
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Undergrad Technical question about modern Double Slit w/ one photon

  • DavidReishi
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Undergrad Bound electrons vs. free electrons

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Graduate Is Poincare symmetry the real thing?

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Undergrad Status of Adami's solution to Firewall paradox?

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High School What causes reflection to occur in highly absorptive materials?

  • 123physics321
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Undergrad The most general state function

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate Is Quantum Determinism Compatible with the Black Hole Information Paradox?

  • secur
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Undergrad "Light is wave-like and particle-like" --- Why this is wrong?

  • DavidReishi
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Undergrad Non-commuting operators on the same eigenfunctions

  • TheCanadian
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Undergrad Inverse square law and ensembles of photons

  • DavidReishi
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Graduate Resolution in single molecule localisation

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Undergrad Are photons from atomic cascade directly entangled?

  • zonde
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Undergrad Hartree fock derivation problem

  • georg gill
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Graduate The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

  • roam
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High School Communication with no latency using quantum entanglement

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Graduate Quantum versus classical computation of the density of state

  • Jip
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High School Question: Can State Only Be Formulated Relating to Observable?

  • entropy1
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High School How Does Neutral Pion Decay Conform to Spin Conservation?

  • simon96c
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Undergrad Implication of eigenstates that are not normalizable

  • TheCanadian
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Undergrad Why is Planck radiation the most radiation a body can emit?

  • Julia Coggins
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Graduate Peskin Shroeder quantum field 7.31 pag 221

  • dosantos86
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Undergrad Unitary Time Evolution: Explaining Open Quantum Systems

  • jamie.j1989
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Graduate Fermis golden rule and transition rates

  • mupsi
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Graduate Lorentz invariance of the Heaviside function

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Undergrad Can Monte Carlo Wave Functions Capture Driven and Dissipative Quantum Dynamics?

  • jamie.j1989
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Graduate Solution of the classical Klein-Gordon equation

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Monte Carlo Wavefunction Methods

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Undergrad Mathematics of tensor products in the Bell states

  • PerilousGourd
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Undergrad Quantized Energy in micro scales

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Undergrad Electrons orbiting the nucleus: angular momentum

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Graduate Where Can I Find the Published Paper on Bose-Einstein Statistics by Einstein?

  • chikou24i
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Graduate Canonical Commutation Relations in finite dimensional Hilbert Space?

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Graduate How Do Quantum Dots Differ from Quantum Wells in Quantum Optical Properties?

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High School Where Do Quantum Gravity and Cosomology Fit in Physics?

  • Peter25samaha
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Graduate How Does the Presence of Gas Affect Decoherence in a Stern-Gerlach Experiment?

  • naima
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Undergrad Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Question

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Undergrad Laser diffraction through single slit

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Undergrad Why is QM (almost) local, with one exception?

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Graduate Effective Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems: Stochastic vs Unitary Models

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Undergrad Does the particle wave duality create unique signatures...

  • Felix Quintana
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Undergrad Transition rules for a trapped ion

  • jamie.j1989
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Graduate Do entangled particles decay simultaneously?

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Graduate CO2 Laser Beam Folding for 10kw Power Output

  • rppearso
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Graduate Misunderstanding Eberhard's paper on FTL communication?

  • secur
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Undergrad Triplet States and Wave Functions

  • sungholee
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Undergrad Can basic concepts explain EIT, LWI, and STIRAP?

  • secur
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Undergrad Symmetry of Hamiltonian and eigenstates

  • Sum Guy
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Undergrad Scattering theory (some confusion)

  • amjad-sh
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Undergrad Wave-particle duality: nature of wave-particle as it travels

  • Peter99
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Graduate Is CPT Symmetry Inherent in All Quantum Field Theories?

  • wotanub
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High School How to compare camera film ISO number to quantum efficiency?

  • Khashishi
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High School Is quantification random or pseudo-random?

  • entropy1
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Graduate WKB Approximation: Suggestions for Starting Points

  • Mrinmoy Naskar
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Undergrad EM Wave Components for a Photon?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Do All Physical States Satisfy the Hamiltonian Equation Hψ = Eψ?

  • Pyrus96
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Graduate Is Quantum Stealth Camouflage Real or Just Another Misreported Discovery?

  • FalconOne
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High School Does retrocausality only apply to subatomic particles?

  • question99
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High School Quantum to Classical Particles: Understanding the Entropy Limit

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Undergrad Integral computation in scattering theory

  • jouvelot
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Undergrad Condition for quantum entanglement?

  • bbbl67
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High School Does Electromagnetic wave qualifies to become a particle?

  • Ronie Bayron
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Undergrad Describing Energy for Time-Dependent States

  • Isaac0427
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Undergrad Keeping a subspace decoherence free, with the Zeno Effect

  • qwertuiop
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Undergrad Does Anti-Information Exist in Quantum Theory?

  • Jason White
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High School Electron arrangement and ionisation energy

  • Gajan1234
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Undergrad Legitimacy of Particle-Wave Duality

  • Zacarias Nason
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Graduate What do people mean by "dynamical phase transition"?

  • tiger2012
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Undergrad Coupling Spin-0 and spin-1 fields

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High School A question of timing in a light bulb

  • tionis
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Undergrad Are electrons in a shared shell quantumly entangled?

  • bbbl67
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Undergrad How Does Decoherence Affect Our Perception of Quantum Superpositions?

  • durant35
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Undergrad What happens to the eigenvalue if an operator acts on a bra?

  • shedrick94
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Undergrad Molecular Spin Number: Uncovering the Secrets of Nuclear Spin in Molecules

  • TheCanadian
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High School What counts as observer effect?

  • Gaz
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Undergrad Solving Fermi-Dirac Integral: Step-by-Step Guide

  • arneet
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Undergrad What is the spin quantum number of an atom in 4P state?

  • shedrick94
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Undergrad Macroscopic wavefunction evolution

  • durant35
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Graduate Hawking multiverse implications for "all" histories

  • trinko
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Undergrad Quantum Key Distribution - interception confusion

  • JaneHall89
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Undergrad Measuring entangled state of degenerate eigenstates

  • maxverywell
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Undergrad Energy of a number of particles

  • EmilyRuck
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Undergrad How do Z-Dir and N-Dir Spins Affect Entangled State Measurements?

  • JaneHall89
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Undergrad Degeneracy in quantum statistics

  • arneet
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High School What groundbreaking insights can quantum physics research on the ISS reveal?

  • 1oldman2
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Undergrad Singlet and triplet spin states - the normalisation constant

  • Sara Kennedy
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