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Undergrad Difference between atomic behavior in QM and classical physics

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Undergrad Spin Offsetting Charge: How Electrons Balance Out

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Undergrad Infinite Sq. Well sinusoidal gen. soln question

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High School Proving entanglement using polarisation & Bell's Inequality

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Undergrad Are physical constants subject to the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Is measurement a yes/no process?

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Undergrad Finite vs. Infinite Square Well potential base question

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High School Decoherence and the Dust Particle

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High School What is the Hamiltonian operator for a decaying Carbon-14 atom?

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Undergrad Delta fuction potential general solution

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Undergrad Representation between State Vector & Wave Function

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High School How Does the Double Slit Experiment Show Both Particle and Wave Behaviors?

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Undergrad How exactly does squaring operators (e.g. <p^2> work?

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Graduate Can decoherence be formulated in the Heisenberg picture?

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Graduate How to change density of states to eV

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Graduate Quantum non-locality and vacuum polarization

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Graduate Is the direction of spin changed by measurement?

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Graduate Photon anti-bunching as necessary for BS entanglement

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Graduate Relativistic standing wave electrons?

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Insights Struggles with the Continuum - Part 6 - Comments

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Graduate Lorentz transformations and vector fields

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Graduate What's a firm/good definition of an "attractive" potential?

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Graduate How can the Higgs boson have mass?

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Graduate Spin wave function of a system of 2 electrons

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Graduate Is BI really required to validate the Hidden Variables?

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Graduate Is the differential in the momentum operator commutative?

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Graduate Can very distant particles be entangled?

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Graduate Are Electron Orbitals Always Spherical in Shape?

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Graduate Maggiore Book misunderstanding

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Graduate Relativity impacts at quantum level

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Graduate Clarifying Neumaier's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Wave or Particle?

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High School Quantum mechanics and reality of matter

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Graduate Electric Field Effect on Quantum Well

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Graduate What additional events must happen to produce entanglement

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Undergrad Why do we need Quantum Mechanics so much?

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Graduate Superpositions and strong force

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Graduate Trying to understand Selection Rules in Cohen-Tannoudji

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Graduate Euclidean correlators for finite chemical potential

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Graduate Do we really mean Hermitian conjugate here?

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach experiment as a measurement

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How does the formula C-6 come about in the following image?

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Graduate Are All Solutions of the 1D Schrodinger Equation Energy Eigenstates?

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Graduate Clebsch-Gordan coefficients symmetry relation

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Graduate Converting operator matrix (Quantum Chemistry question)

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Graduate How Does Trace Relations in Fock Space Reflect on Quantum Expectations?

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Graduate Quantum Medicine - Explore Its Possibilities

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Graduate Is Matter Created continuously?

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Graduate Harmonic oscillator positive position expectation value?

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Graduate Entanglement and time dilation

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Graduate Can someone give me a hand with large root here

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Graduate Do you believe what this physics teacher says about entanglement

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Graduate Do you believe that entanglement drives the arrow of time?

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Graduate Why this macro thing having quantum behaving but other not?

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Graduate Stat. States, Orthonorm. expansion coefficients etc qn?

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Graduate Particle physics basic concept from Standford Uni help

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Graduate How Do Photons Influence Our Vision Through Quantum Wave Properties?

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Graduate What makes localized energy eigenstates, localized?

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Graduate Bending of Light in diffraction? Is it actually possible?

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Graduate Question about reversability/arrow of time

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Graduate Kinetic energy of two particles

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Undergrad Quantum mechanics is not weird, unless presented as such

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Graduate Why helicity of photon is 1 but not 3?

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Undergrad What does Double slit experiment actually mean

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Graduate What's the difference between these two equations?

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Graduate Is there any reason i is left in the denominator here?

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Graduate Decoherence and apparent collapse

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Graduate Are tracks in collision experiments proof of particles?

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Graduate Spectral Gap or Gapless Undecidable

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Graduate Can All Particles of a Cat Be in Superposition Simultaneously?

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Graduate Why is Decoherence Needed in Quantum Mechanics?

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RIP Prof Rudolf Haag (5 Jan 2016)

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Graduate What's the name of the wavefxn int. showing normalizability?

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Graduate Hamiltonian and momentum operator acting on a momentum eigenstate

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Graduate Weinberg Lectures on QM (2013 ed.), Equation 3.6.18

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Graduate Why Is radiation the highest form of entropy?

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Graduate Relativistic vs. Nonrelativistic KE Operator question

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Graduate Measurement and Preparation in the Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate Spin imparting angular momentum

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Graduate Vectors, Hilbert Spaces, and Tensor Products

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Graduate Now that all loopholes are closed

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Graduate Exponential of Pauli spin matrices

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Graduate Problem in basic equalities for Huckel energy

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Graduate Why are Diagonal Elements of a Time-Dependent Perturbed Hamiltonian Often Zero?

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Graduate Advanced quantum mechanics book with solutions

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Insights Struggles With The Continuum - Part 2 - Comments

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Graduate Quantum state vector and physical state

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Graduate Existence of Space: Does it Exist at Planck Level?

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Graduate An abstract long-distance correlation experiment

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Graduate Understanding the optimal approximate qubit cloning method

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Graduate Solving for Wavelength: What Did I Do Wrong?

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Graduate Are gravitons the quanta of spacetime?

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Graduate Does measurement violate unitarity?

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Graduate Asynchronous Entangled Photon pairs

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Graduate References for tunneling decay in magnetic fields

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Graduate Few questions about photoelectricity

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Graduate What is nonlocality in relativity ?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: No Comm Thm & Counterfactual Def

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Graduate Did only parts of the diamond get entangled?

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Graduate Mathematical Proof that Photons have No Rest Mass

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Graduate Berry's Curvature Equation cross product calculation

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