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Graduate How is the uncertainty relation preserved in this experiment

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Graduate Are there limitations to a particle's possibilities in superposition?

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Graduate Understanding Two-Qubit States: The Bell States

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Graduate Is Entanglement the Key to Understanding Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Delayed Choice Compatibly with Pilot Wave?

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Graduate Wave-function solution in time-reversal transformation

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Graduate Why no smear in Stern-Gerlach experiment?

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Graduate Definitions of parity conservation

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Graduate Question Concerning Superposition

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Graduate How Does Distance Affect Entanglement Between Quantum Particles?

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Graduate A question about "entanglement monogamy"

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Graduate Problem With Motion of Electron

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Graduate Matrix representation of operators

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Graduate Question about the game of "Half Life" -- Resonances....

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Undergrad Photons & Waves: A Laymen's Query

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Graduate Why is gauge symmetry not a true symmetry?

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Graduate [Video] Carbon nanotubes & single photons

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Graduate Why is (5.302) an Approximation of Exponential Operators?

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Graduate What is the law for probability having Schrodinger equation?

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Undergrad How is integral finished? and what integral equation used?

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Graduate Propagator in the derivation of path integrals

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Graduate Ehrenfest theorem and coherent states

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Graduate Why does Bohr's derivation work?

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Graduate Does Maxwell's Demon violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

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Graduate Does Gauge Symmetry Define the Nature of Electric Charge?

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Graduate Quantum(izing) fields & what else?

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Graduate Why Do Path Integrals Involve Multiple Integrations Instead of Simple Summation?

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Graduate Solving phi-fourth theory using Fourier analysis

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Graduate Proof of time independence for normalization of wavefunction

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Graduate Can circularly polarized photons interfere with themselves?

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Graduate Why are particles in QFT assumed to be point-like?

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Graduate Orthonormality contition for radial functions of hydrogen

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Graduate Inner products of vectors in the form of equations.

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Graduate Photon energy and light quantum hypothesis

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Graduate Photon-Atom Interaction: Effects on Electron and Nucleus Energies

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Graduate What are the latest developments in Bosenova and EBC research?

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Graduate Elementary Particles: Wave-Like Nature vs Travelling in Wave

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Largest Size for Wave-Particle Duality

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Graduate Understanding Photon Propagation: Entity or Quanta?

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Graduate Getting electron density from probability density function

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Graduate Fermi's Golden Rule: Countable Quantum States & H-Theorem

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Undergrad Superconductors in magnetic fields

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Graduate Confused about black holes and Hawking radiation

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Graduate Computing propagators with derivative interaction

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Graduate Prove the time evolution operator is unitary

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Graduate Experience the Quantum World with This Innovative Card Game

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Graduate (kx,ky,kz)=(0,0,0) solution for a free particle with PBC?

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach for Spin 1 Particles

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Graduate Free particle solution to the SE

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Graduate How Can Effective Mass Discontinuity Be Managed in Quantum Well Simulations?

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Graduate "Wave function Collapse" 'proof' articles

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Graduate Matrix representation of an operator with a change of basis

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Graduate Finite Size vs Point Size Hydrogen like Atoms

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Graduate Complex phase space coordinates

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Graduate Non-locality and Counterfactual definiteness

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Undergrad Why do we have a saturation current in photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Tangibly Explaining HUP to General Chemistry Students

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Graduate Instantaneous eigenstates in the Heisenberg picture

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Graduate Does Hilbert Space Include Constants of Nature Beyond Basic Quantum Information?

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High School High school teacher looking for data students can work with

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Undergrad Hilbert Space vs Quantum Vacuum

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Graduate Hydrogen atom ground state wave function complex conjugate

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Graduate Total Internal Reflection explained with Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can QM be described by Markov chain theory?

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Undergrad Does this type of potential have a name?

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Graduate QFT: Lorentz Trans+ Field infinitesimal variation

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Graduate Radiation reaction in the classical limit of QED?

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Graduate Minimum-uncertainty wave function -- contradiction?

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Graduate Spectrum Continuity: Quantum & Real-Life Perspectives

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Graduate Unitary evolution and environment

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Graduate How to merge beams with POVMs?

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Can someone explain me this Quantum Picture?

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Graduate Degeneracy removed when commuting observables are specified?

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Graduate Relation between dimensional regularization and high-energy modes

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Graduate Basis for electron spin in a quantum field

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Graduate What Distance Makes the Casimir Effect Negligible?

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Graduate Visualizing Decoherence in a Momentum Basis

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Graduate What issues can D wave quantum processor solve ?

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Graduate Time reversal and motion reversal

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Graduate Electrons, Muons and Pauli Exclusion

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Graduate Do virtual particles interact with each other?

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Graduate Prove the nth energy eigenfunction has n-1 zeros

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Graduate Why Is Bloch's Theorem Derived Using Complex Methods?

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Graduate Standard Model, Mass in QFT - Is There Consensus?

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Graduate Does the Higgs field truly exist if it cannot be directly measured?

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Graduate Unphysical nature of ##\phi^{3}## interaction

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Graduate Understanding Interference of Qubits with Varying Density Matrices

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Graduate Recovering QM from QFT: David Tong Notes

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Graduate Distinguishability of electrons in an atom

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Graduate Conceptual questions on unitarity and time evolution

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Graduate Pairs of observables in uncertainty principle

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Graduate What effect would one expect if the Critical Temperature is

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Undergrad Why aren't we on maverick branches?

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Graduate Can temperature affect the absorption and emission ranges of atomic spectra?

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Graduate I would like to learn about the string theory.

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Graduate Propagator of inverse harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Error in Srednicki renormalization?

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Graduate From how far away is radiated energy of photons effective?

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Graduate Wave equation indicates the probability density

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Graduate Intuition for divergences in sunset diagram

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