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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 Understanding 'Observe' in Physics: Definitions and Explanations

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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?

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Graduate PBR theorem - that the wavefunction is physically existent

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Graduate When does the limit become quantized?

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Graduate Canonical momentum for Dirac adjoint field

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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?

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Graduate Absolute zero should be impossible

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Graduate Circle or polygon for charged particle in magnetic field....

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Graduate Simple question about quantum entanglement from a layperson

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Graduate Another loophole-free test of Bell's theorem

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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?

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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 Quantum Entanglement for Superluminal Communications: How Does It Work?

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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?

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Graduate What Happens When We Measure Entangled Particles?

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Graduate Lorentz transformation of a scalar field

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Graduate Delayed choice quantum eraser question

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Graduate Violation of Pauli's Exclusion Principle possible?

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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

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

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Graduate Proving Entanglement: Measuring Spin of Photons for Bell's Inequality

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Graduate Why does gravity not explain the Casimir Effect?

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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)

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Graduate What exactly is a quantum state?

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

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Graduate Complex numbers and physical meaning

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Graduate Allowable energies for a Particle in a box

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Graduate Light Waves on Macroscopic Scale: Distinguishing from Matter Waves?

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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 ?

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Graduate Are there Virtual Particles for Every Field?

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Graduate The Zeilinger experiment being FTL?

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Graduate Probability of pools freezing in summer

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Graduate How does the EM force transmit charge information?

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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?

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Graduate Momentum eigenstates - particle in a box

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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?

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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

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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?

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

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Graduate What happens when Alice and Bob measure entangled spins in different directions?

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Graduate A general question about quantum physics

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Graduate Is quantum entanglement a form of time travel?

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Graduate Does Pair Production proving quantum nature?

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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?

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Graduate Understanding the Spin States of Vector Mesons

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Graduate Momentum and position eigenstates ; free and bound

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Graduate Complementing a Qubit in the Bloch-Sphere

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High School Large Casimir Cavity: Can Its Effect Be Enhanced?

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Graduate Free floating electron quantum spin axis locked to space?

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Graduate QFT, excitation of quantum field, physical or mathematical?

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Graduate Is an electron a delocalized excitation before measurement?

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Graduate How does the double slit experiment take us to superposition?

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Graduate CNOT Quantum Gate Schematics: Physical Implementation

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Graduate Total Angular Momentum J

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Graduate Derivation of Fermi-Dirac distribution

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Graduate Will detecting 1 of the 3 slits break the wave patterns?

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Graduate Why must E exceed Vmin(x) for normalizable solutions?

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Graduate Wave particle duality: accept a new entity?

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Graduate Wavefunction in rotating frame

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