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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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Graduate Why does the depolarising channel include Tr[X] in its definition?

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Graduate Prove the nth Hermite polynomial has n real zeros

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Graduate Decoherence in the long time limit of density matrix element

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Graduate Relationship between Quantum Numbers and Quantum Information

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Graduate How did Bell and Zeilinger attempt to rule out hidden variables?

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Graduate How Do You Construct Excited States in a Two-Boson Harmonic Oscillator?

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Graduate Is there a Bell type inequality involving only three values?

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Graduate Trace Distance in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Are photons really anti-correlated off their basis vectors?

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Insights A Hand-Wavy Discussion of the Planck Length - Comments

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Graduate Realism and counterfactual definiteness in Bell's theorem

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Graduate The spectral gap and it's decidability

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Graduate Question related to a 3D finite spherical well

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Graduate Why is Quantum Mechanics Inherently Probabilistic?

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Graduate Why does gauge fixing break gauge symmetry?

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Graduate Distance between positron and electron

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Graduate What is the relationship between frequency and energy in matter waves?

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Undergrad Parallel universes and randomness

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Graduate Wave-function solution of a rectangular-well potential

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Graduate Ground-state energy of harmonic oscillator(operator method)

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Graduate Quantum effects caused by our mathematics?

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Graduate How does wave function collapse affect measurements taken after measurements?

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Graduate Resources for quantum mechanics experiments with textbook topics

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Graduate How can pure EM waves experience decoherence?

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Graduate Counting States of Degeneracy in 3-D Particles in a Box

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Graduate Is Fokker Planck equation equivalent to Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Is the Spectral Gap Problem in Quantum Mechanics Undecidable?

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Graduate Experiment showing energy levels of light are quantized

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Undergrad Must even functions have even number of nodes?

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Graduate Finding minimum CHSH value in hidden variable model

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Graduate Isn't Schrodinger's cat doomed anyways?

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Graduate Why are Dirac adjoints and imaginary terms in Feynman propagators?

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Graduate Why Do Some Particles Decay Faster Than Others?

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Undergrad What is the explanation for quantum correlations?

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Graduate Are Some Atomic Orbitals From a 4D Wave Function?

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Graduate Electromagnetic waves and the correspondence principle

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Graduate Do QED and wave interference both explain thin film patterns?

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Graduate How does the wavefunction "know" the observables?

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Graduate Perceived contradiction in non-locality principle

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Graduate Why is the transition in resistance gradual at the Critical Temperature

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Graduate Possible explanation for a Bell experiment?

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Graduate 100% transmission through a potential barrier

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Graduate What are some coincidences in quantum mechanics that make life possible?

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Graduate What determines light-matter interaction processes?

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Graduate Is the collapse of a wave function deterministic or random?

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Graduate QED explanation of entanglement

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Graduate How to get from the wavefunction to weighted states?

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Graduate What experiments justified Einstein Podolsky Rosen's notion of entanglement?

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Graduate Do Electrons need Energy to Excite the EM field?

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Graduate Free particle with smooth compact support wavefunction

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Graduate Why doesn't color superposition make blue quarks attracted to color-neutral hadrons?

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Graduate Unitary and linear operator in quantum mechanics

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Undergrad What exactly does quantum entanglement imply?

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Graduate Must the 1st derivative of phi be undetermined at V=infinity

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Graduate Commutation relations for angular momentum operator

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Graduate What is the difference between psi(x;y) and psi(x) in 2D BO

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Graduate Can synchronization emulate non-locality ?

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Graduate Anderson localization and electron flow/diffusion?

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Graduate Eberhard assumptions and FTL communication

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Graduate Bell-state entanglement swapping and retrocausality

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Graduate Schwarz-Hora effect publications

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Graduate Double-slit with semi-transparence

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Graduate Are photons passing a polarization filter randomly?

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Graduate Why do Planck's constant and action have the same units?

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Graduate Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Computing

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Graduate Retrieving information from qubits

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Graduate Stern-Gerlach experiment with x, y, and z axes

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Graduate Hyperfine structure in hydrogen

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High School Is there proof that photons actually exist?

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Graduate Double-slit with half-transparent mirror

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Graduate Do Electrons Excite the EMF or do the Virtual Photons?

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Graduate CPT transformation analogue of free electron laser?

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Graduate Seeking a phase angle operator for the QHO

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Graduate Are the two paths in an interferometer indistinguishable?

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Graduate Wave function -- Why is there an imaginary part?

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Graduate Pilot wave theory and quantum tunneling

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Undergrad Why does the double slit experiment outcome change only with observation?

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Graduate Can an operator map an eigenstate to a different eigenstate?

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Graduate How to interpret Bell's theorem correctly

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High School Diffraction of light, the mechanism

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Graduate Nonlinear susceptibility in second harmonic generation

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Graduate Hidden variables and Bell's inequality

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Graduate Double slit experiment exposed?

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Graduate Exact Description of Properties: Spin, etc.

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Graduate Wave Functions: What Are They?

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Graduate Correspondence principle and its use

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Graduate Uncertainty principle at the macroscopic level

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