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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 Why does de Broglie's equation give wave velocity c for matter?

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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 How the no communication theorem allows nonlocality

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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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Graduate Different wave function for different observers?

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Undergrad Schrodinger's Cat radioactive source

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Graduate Eigenstates of Orbital Angular Momentum

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Graduate Coulomb potential as an operator

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Graduate What does the `|' represent in an infinite product notation?

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Graduate Pathria page 2 -- total energy for mutually interacting particles

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Graduate What Happens to Entangled Particles During Collider Experiments?

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Graduate Does a polarisationfilter do a measurement?

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Graduate Has progress been made in reconciling quantum field theory with general relativity?

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Graduate Lagrangian invariance under infinitesimal transformations

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Graduate Energy conservation+superpositions=entanglement?

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Graduate How do physicists measure electron position if the wavefunction is everywhere?

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High School Limits of no-communication theorem

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Graduate What does n represent in the standard error formula for quantum operators?

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Graduate Mind over matter reality or myth?

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Graduate Quantum antenna thought experiment

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Graduate Entangled states before observation.

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Graduate Possible support to Penrose's OR theory?

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Graduate Symmetry groups of molecule - Hamiltonian

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High School Are these good analogues for entanglement

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High School Is entanglement preserved on re-emission of photons

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Graduate Understanding Bell's inequality

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Graduate Are space and time really quantized?

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Graduate Angular momentum during bremsstrahlung

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Graduate Do Relativistic Effects Impact Probabilistic Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Can calcium ions be used as a source of entangled photons

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Graduate What is the difference between entanglement and coherence

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Graduate Stern Gerlach and Nuclear Spin?

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Graduate Why Does the Stern-Gerlach Experiment Show Discrete Deflection Angles?

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Graduate Question reguarding superpostion

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Graduate Probability of entangled photons passing filter independent?

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Graduate Shocker: PR Box is logically inconsistent

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Undergrad Is the collapse indispensable?

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Graduate Is macroscopic entanglement a hidden property of all objects?

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Graduate Energy eigenvalue and mass inverse relation?

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Graduate Can you name a few interactions that entangle particles

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Graduate SO(4) symmetry in the Coulomb potential

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Graduate Increase of Uncertainty over Time

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Graduate Why can we believe the value of field is fluctuated?

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Graduate What Term must be used for this formalism?

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Graduate Photon energy in Heisenberg picture

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Graduate Any difference between BEC correlations and entangled states

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Graduate Ergodocity and unitary evolution

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Graduate Do beamsplitters alone create entangled photon states?

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Graduate How to measure momentum in principle?

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Graduate Formation of stars and non-conservation of angular momentum

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Graduate How does a virtual particle becomes a point interaction?

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Graduate Can a dust particle be re-prepared with further photons?

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Graduate Overlap as function of distance

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Graduate The phase between 2 waves describing 2 entangled particles?

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Graduate Can particles be absorbed into a field?

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Graduate Does photon interaction with objects cause wave function collapse?

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Graduate Variable separation - Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Representation of Dirac Spinors

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Graduate Entangled Photons: What Happens to Photon B? Can Two Combine?

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Graduate Cause of quantum effects on small and large scales

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Graduate Is information conserved in quantum physics?

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Graduate Determinism and Uncertainity Principle

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Graduate Where do raising and lowering operators come from?

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Graduate Can one photon be heard by multiple listeners on a radio station?

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Graduate Why Must Indistinguishable Particles in Quantum Mechanics Exhibit Symmetry?

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Graduate Can we measure the momentum of a particle in a specific position?

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Graduate Difference/similarity between superposition and uncertainty

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Graduate Observation and its role on objects/matter/particles

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Graduate Using Mathematica to solve for Jacobi Identity

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Graduate Can spin be modeled as a spinning vector until "measured" ?

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Graduate How Do Electrons Overcome Wave-Particle Duality in CRT Monitors?

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Graduate Poisson brackets commutator vs. quantum commtation relation

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Graduate What does a source term mean physically in the Klein-Gordon equation?

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Graduate Criticism of blog post on quantum pigeonhole principle

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High School Why QM (or rather, nature) is weird, in lay terms.

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Graduate Probability and probability amplitude.

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Graduate Does Schrödinger's Cat Age If Found Alive?

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Graduate Transferring information faster than the speed of light?

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Undergrad Interference pattern in a moving train

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Graduate Confusion related to momentum eigenstates

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Graduate What would be the axiom of a theory deeper than quantum mechanics?

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Graduate List of Quantum phenomenon effects

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Graduate Adding expectation values to a CHSH animation

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Graduate How do you determine if a particle decay is possible?

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Graduate Self-adjoint matrix, general form

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Graduate What allow matter wave propagation?

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High School Can Quantum Occur on Manifolds Beyond Spacetime?

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Graduate Are bound state wavefunctions in a 1D potential well real or complex?

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Graduate Classification of multipartite entanglement

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Graduate Photon information after passing the pupil

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Graduate Superconducting Resonator matches 3 Degree Kelvin Spectrum

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