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Graduate What is the role of these elements in entanglement

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Graduate Is single photon monochromatic or not?

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Graduate Why are quantum measurements completely positive trace preserving maps?

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Graduate Do ladder operators give integer multiples of ћ?

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Graduate Performing Wick Rotation to get Euclidean action of scalar f

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Graduate Double slit experiment observation on and off

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Graduate Effect of spins on hydrogen atom ground state energy

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Graduate Double slit experiment detection

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Graduate Question concerning superposition

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Graduate How does QFT explain the world around us?

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Graduate What Are Filtering Type Observations in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Propagation amplitude and time-evolution operator

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Graduate Operator r is a diagonal matrix in position representation

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Graduate Questions about measurement of a particle in superposition

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Graduate How is this equation for <x|P|x'> derived?

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Undergrad How does a photon's wave function collapse when transferring energy to an electron?

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Graduate Classical channel vs quantum channel

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Graduate Realism vs Locality in Quantum Entanglement

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Graduate Why is a full p sub-shell stable but a full s sub-shell unstable?

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Undergrad Do photon apply a force to the electron ?

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Graduate Problem understanding Wigner's 1939 paper

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Graduate Superposition in relation to Counter factual definiteness

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Graduate Long-distance correlation, information, and faster-than-light interaction

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Graduate Why does hermiticity hold in all bases if defined in one basis?

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Graduate Hamiltonian matrix for two electrons in a 1D infinite well

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Graduate Simulating long-distance correlations

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Graduate Penetrating the Rectangular Potential Barrier, E < V0

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Graduate Decoherence: dephasing, collapse, isolated systems, and interpretation

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Graduate Why do the off-diagonal terms not matter in density matrices?

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Graduate Difference between Bell and CHSH?

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High School Can a Quantum Observer Perceive Superpositions Inaccessible to Humans?

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Undergrad Photon question (collision or no collision)

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Graduate Quantum tunneling instantaneous

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Graduate How does the classical world emerge from the quantum world?

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Graduate Perturbation theory, Intermediate states, Virtual particles

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Graduate Understanding Pure and Mixed Quantum States in Entanglement

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Undergrad Why does a black body radiate in all the frequency spectrum?

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Graduate What does high-fidelity qubit readout mean?

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Purification

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High School What Happens to a Cat in a Box Without Factorization?

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Graduate Peskin and Schroeder - page 4 - choice of notation

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Graduate Ground state energies and potential

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Graduate Does quantum non-locality involve FTL influence between entangled photons?

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Graduate Quantum fluctuations within an electromagnetic field

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Graduate Wigner function as average value of parity

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Graduate About the expectation value of position of a particle

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Undergrad What do they mean that energy is quantized?

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Undergrad Black Body radiation and thermal equilibrium

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High School Is it there or not (when we are not looking at it)?

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Undergrad Do Photons Have Mass and Why Does it Matter?

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Graduate Quantum Field Theory intro with flying field disturbances

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Graduate Integrate Laplacian operator by parts

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Graduate Are probability coefficients source for semitransparence

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Graduate EPR thought experiment: measuring one particle's velocity and knowing the other's

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Graduate Electron-positron annihilation

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Graduate Quantum mechanics is not weird (locality and non-locality weirdness)

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High School How do scientists work with nonlinear crystals

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Graduate Quantum entanglement by the means of beam splitters

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Graduate Delta Function Identity in Modern Electrodynamics, Zangwill

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Graduate Average momentum of energy eigenstates is always zero?

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Graduate Mathematical and actual measurements?

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Graduate Density Matrix and State Alpha

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Graduate Can virtual particles exist without their counterparts?

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Graduate From Classical to Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Radio Transmissions: Is It Possible in a 1x1x1m Cube?

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Graduate Understanding superposition of states

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Graduate Understanding proof for Heisenberg uncertainty

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Graduate Time independent perturbation theory

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Graduate Decoherence in measurement apparatus

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Graduate Momentum-free spinors and the Dirac equation

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High School Does Bell's theorem imply particles don't exist before measurement?

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Graduate Revisiting Neumaier's Newtonian Quantum: A Critical Perspective

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Graduate Delta function and dirac notation

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Graduate Derivation of number of quantum states

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Graduate Bose-Einstein Stats and Planck Formula

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Graduate Is Complete Disentanglement Possible in Finite Time?

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Graduate EPR paradox and time of collapse

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Graduate Parity and integration in spherical coordinates

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Graduate S-matrix element for forward scattering and amputed green fu

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Graduate Mirror plane and spin direction

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Graduate Why does e^(jkR) represent a spherical wave traveling in the negative R direction?

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Graduate Matrix elements of non-normalizable states

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Graduate Does quantum entanglement in fact equal a wormhole?

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Graduate Measurement-Free Interactions (MFI)

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Undergrad What kind of differential equations one must know for QM?

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Graduate Verify the Rodrigues formula of the Legendre polynomials

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Graduate The Two-State Vector Formalism

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Graduate Quantum fluctuation and quantum mysticism

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Graduate What if there are no Schrödinger's cats?

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High School Is Decoherence Possible Without Collapse?

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Graduate Are infinitesimal field variations in QFT similar to coordinate components?

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Graduate How does QFT handle non-locality?

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High School What does it mean for electromagnetic radiation to be quantized?

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Graduate Quantum mechanics for big things?

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Graduate QFT: Understanding Counter-Terms for Renormalization

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Graduate If im not measuring its not there?

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Graduate Confusion about selection rules

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Graduate What is the generator of boosts in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What applications does quantum physics have, specifically?

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Graduate What is the Linear Variation Method in Molecular Quantum Mechanics?

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