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Graduate How much does it cost to conduct quantum research on a large scale?

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Graduate Does Quantum Contextuality only apply to spin?

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Graduate Indeterminacy of wave function

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Graduate Difference between 2-point and 4-point function in QFT

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Graduate Second Quantization vs Many-Particle QM

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Graduate How Does the Stern-Gerlach Experiment Illuminate the Electron Spin Problem?

  • Sheldon Cooper
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Graduate How to find the normalization constant of Fermi-Dirac distribution function?

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Graduate Do Quantum Particles Jump Rather Than Move?

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Graduate Can an Atom's Valence Electrons Be Used as a Radial Antenna?

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Graduate Using Feynman rules to calculate amplitude

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Graduate Free particle propagator - Shankar POQM Eqn. 5.1.10, p. 153

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Graduate Order of scalar interaction impact Feynman diagrams

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Graduate Free particle propagator: Shankar equation 5.1.9 missing factor

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Graduate Is it possible to have a spin chain with both bosons and fermions interacting?

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Graduate Normalisation of free particle wavefunction

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Graduate Double slits from the particles viewpoint

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Graduate Additional quantum states of the infinite square well

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Graduate Normalization constant of Fermi Dirac distribution function

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Undergrad What does 'observe' mean in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Violation of Bell inequalities for classical fields?

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Graduate Particle in a well potential/energy continuity

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Graduate Solution of Schrodinger equation in axially symmetric case

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Graduate Adjoint operator in bra-ket notation

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Graduate Is Quantum mechanics internally inconsistent?

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Graduate Commuting Hamiltonian with the projection of position

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Graduate Consciousness and the Wigner's friend problem

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Graduate What Are Some Trustable Websites about Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Can quantum decoherence be described as a causal interplay?

  • Pleonasm
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Graduate PBR theorem - that the wavefunction is physically existent

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Graduate When does the limit become quantized?

  • Physics_Kid
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Graduate Canonical momentum for Dirac adjoint field

  • nigelscott
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Graduate Vacuum diagrams vs. tree diagrams vs. loop diagrams

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Graduate Atomic Spontaneous Decay in Spherical Cavity

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Undergrad Is There an Absolute Heat Limit and What Are the Safety Risks?

  • coach950
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Graduate Absolute zero should be impossible

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Graduate Does a charged particle trace a polygon or circle in a magnetic field?

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Graduate Can quantum entanglement communication enable a telescope to photograph its own past?

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Graduate Loophole-free Bell test with entangled photons by Zeilinger team

  • DrChinese
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Graduate ELI5: Antiparticles in Feynman Diagrams

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Graduate Quantum Computing presentation ideas

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Undergrad Why do some QM books start with Polarization?

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Graduate Infinitesimal transformation of a field

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Undergrad Example of a linear combination, anyone have any insights?

  • Edward Hunia
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Graduate Plotting the Probability Density of the Coulomb Wave Function

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Undergrad Is Causality Preserved in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Can quantum entanglement enable superluminal communication?

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Graduate Transformations of a vector in the active viewpoint

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Graduate Magnetic field of a Spin-1/2-Particle

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Graduate Mixed State Treatment: Eigenvalue Degeneracy

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Insights Is Prequantum Field Theory a Valuable Area of Research?

  • Urs Schreiber
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Graduate How do simultaneous measurements of entangled particles work?

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Graduate Lorentz transformation of a scalar field

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Graduate Multiple double slits with randomly switching detectors in delayed choice setup

  • gjonesy
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Graduate Violation of Pauli's Exclusion Principle possible?

  • Aliasa
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Graduate Dirac equation in 1+1 spacetime, resources

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Undergrad Calculating wavelengths of light

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Graduate Continuity of the wave function

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Graduate Phase of coherent states and single photons

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Graduate Normalised Radial Coulomb Wave Function

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Graduate Quantum mechanics "not quantized"

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Graduate Confusion Related to Planck Mass

  • klen
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Graduate How Does Adding a Second Pair of Slits Affect Interference Patterns?

  • Paul Howard A
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Graduate Proving Entanglement: Measuring Spin of Photons for Bell's Inequality

  • gamow99
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Graduate Why does gravity not explain the Casimir Effect?

  • Nick Bratcamp
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Graduate Any Good Sources for Learning Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Bound by the Limits of Pure Chance?

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Graduate Understanding WKB Approximation for E-V(x)

  • curious.cat
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Graduate What exactly is a quantum state?

  • quantum.cmptr
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Graduate Why is the equation for a particle's wave function given by ##\nu = E/h##?

  • Isaac0427
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Graduate Complex numbers and physical meaning

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Graduate Allowable energies for a Particle in a box

  • Nick.
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Graduate Light Waves on Macroscopic Scale: Distinguishing from Matter Waves?

  • chris2112
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Graduate What's so unusual about entanglement?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle (stationary state)

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Graduate Mach zehnder : a test for superposition ?

  • jk22
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Graduate Are there Virtual Particles for Every Field?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate The Zeilinger experiment being FTL?

  • SlowThinker
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Graduate Probability of pools freezing in summer

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate How does the EM force transmit charge information?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate Rotational Energy and Degeneracy

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Graduate Multiple universes, measurement and laws of nature

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Graduate What is quantum computing research mostly focused on?

  • Domenico94
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Graduate Momentum eigenstates - particle in a box

  • dyn
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Graduate What is the exact connection between Poisson brackets and commutators

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Graduate What is the core problem of the information paradox?

  • Atla
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Graduate Can gravity be hypothetically used to collapse the wave function?

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Graduate Does relativistic QM obey rotational symmetry?

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Graduate Annihilation of shifted gaussian vs. nonshifted gaussian

  • Chip
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Graduate How can expectation of position^2 be > L

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Graduate Eigenfunction of multiple operators simultaneously?

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Undergrad Does voltage affect the current in the Franck-Hertz experiment?

  • ghaleb hamdan
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Graduate An operator acting on the translated ground state of an SHO

  • Chip
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Graduate What quantum mechanics do I need to understand atomic model development?

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Graduate Is quantum entanglement a form of time travel?

  • David Byrden
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Graduate Does Pair Production proving quantum nature?

  • ghaleb hamdan
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle And Collapse Wavefunction

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Graduate What is the significance of S-Matrix in Quantum Field Theory?

  • Ted Baas
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Graduate Spin states of the rho meson from Clebsch-Gordan coefficients

  • dwight ang
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Graduate Momentum and position eigenstates ; free and bound

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