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Graduate Things that do not depend on the choice of Cauchy surface

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High School Watching the double-slit experiment affects the results?

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Graduate Learning Quantum Mechanics with Dirac: Understanding Ket Vectors

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Graduate Projector augmented wave method

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Graduate Path integral propagator as Schr's eq Green's function

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Graduate Question about higher dimensions and what connects them

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Graduate Schwarzschild Diameter of One Quantum of Energy

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Graduate Why we never see a rational charge?

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Graduate Finding a unitary transformation between two quantum states.

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Undergrad Can a photon have any frequency or only certain specific?

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Graduate Idea concerning Quantum Entanglement

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Graduate Interaction picture - time evolution operator

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Graduate Cheshire Cat Experiment in July Issue of Nature

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Graduate Instantaneous action in potential

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Graduate What is "Modern Quantum Simulation" experimentation?

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Undergrad Precession of angular momentum in vector model

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Graduate How can a particle be a combination of other particles?

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Graduate Four Classes of Quantum Mechanical Effects are Independent?

  • Islam Hassan
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High School Does Observation Create Reality in Quantum Physics?

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High School Why does the complex conjugate of psi pop out?

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Graduate The momentum representation of ##x## and ##[x,p]##

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Graduate Intuitive idea for chaotic light statistics?

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Graduate What is VigLink and How Does it Affect Links on Physicsforums?

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Graduate The physical derivation of annihilation operator?

  • Pring
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Insights Higher Prequantum Geometry I: The Need for Prequantum Geometry - Comments

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Graduate Matrix method to find coefficients of 1-d S.E.

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Graduate Spin Operators: Axial for QM, Polar in Clifford Algebra?

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Graduate What is a Label? QM & QFT Explained

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Graduate Understanding Electron Chirality and Scalar Conservation

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Graduate How Does the Angular Momentum Commutator Derive the Lorentz Algebra?

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Graduate Chance of building practical quantum computers

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Graduate Understanding Qubits: How Superposition Powers Quantum Computers

  • T-Oreilly
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Graduate Quantum Communication: Instant Transmission of Messages?

  • Jim Hasty
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Graduate Quantum Hilbert Hotel: Endless Possibilities

  • DrClaude
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Graduate How to; polarized reaction ee--->WW

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Graduate Delayed choice quantum eraser by Kim et al.

  • Dadface
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Graduate How Do Complex Numbers Affect Ket Vectors in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Using completeness relation to find <Omega>=0

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Graduate Why does quantum entanglement not allow ftl communication

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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser: Am I missing something here?

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Graduate Trouble understanding the wave function

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Graduate Can you determine if a string of particle pairs is composed of entangled pairs?

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Graduate How do I set up a delta potential well with an infinite potential wall?

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Graduate Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Imply Energy Nonconservation?

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Graduate Vacuum energy spectrum, density and constant term....

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Graduate Spin Quantum Number: Why Just Z Component?

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Graduate Can Vacuum Fluctuations Lead to Electron-Positron Annihilation?

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Graduate Addresses of Parallel Universes

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Graduate Quantum Contextuality: Learn with Books & Articles

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Graduate Contour integral example from "QFT for the gifted amatueur"

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Graduate Can one derive the photon number / phase uncertainty relation

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Insights Misconception of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - Comments

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Graduate How Can Orbital Angular Momentum be Used to Enhance Key Rate Generation in QKD?

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Graduate Is Determinism Really Broken in Spin Measurements?

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Graduate Exponentials or trig functions for finite square well?

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Graduate What does the potential barrier energy measure?

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Graduate Understanding Qubits and Complex Scalars: The Role of Imaginary Numbers

  • kaje
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Graduate Bell Test Violates Local Realism w/ Loophole-Free Electron Spins 1.3km Apart

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Graduate Depiction of distribution of photons over time

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Graduate Equations for Entanglement and the Double Slit Experiment: A Layman's Guide

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Graduate Energy conservation and michelson interferometers

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Undergrad F = (1/4)(n2/n1)2[1-{(n1-n2)/(n1+n2)}2] ?

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Graduate Can Free Electrons in a Vacuum Become Entangled?

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Graduate Understanding Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Quantum observation of black hole?

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Graduate What is the mathematical function for the atomic orbital?

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Graduate Invariance of integration measure under shifts in field

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Insights Examples of Prequantum Field Theories II: Higher Gauge Fields - Comments

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Graduate Conservation of energy violation of galvanic cell electron

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Graduate Characterization of a gauge theory in terms of observables

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Insights What Does As a Sheaf of Functions on Phase Space Mean?

  • Urs Schreiber
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Graduate Peskin and Schroeder - Derivation of equation (2.45)

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Graduate Quantum No-Deletion/No-Partial Erasure vs. Measurement

  • Ruik
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Insights Examples of Prequantum Field Theories I: Gauge fields - Comments

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Graduate Kubo formula for thermopower (Seebeck coefficient)

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Graduate First loophole-free Bell test?

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Graduate Gauge fixing and gauge transformations

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Graduate If A is Bloch function, then <A(k,x)|dA(k',x)/dx>=δ(k,k')?

  • zhanhai
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Graduate What alternatives exist for building a qubit without material deposition?

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Graduate The boundary condition for ##\delta## function

  • Pring
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Graduate Is Boltzmann's Phase Cell Assumption Contradictory?

  • Sheldon Cooper
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Graduate "Reading" Schrodinger's equation

  • Vinay080
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Graduate What is the significance of the factor (2π)^3 in the completeness relation?

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Understanding the Wave Function: Time, Distance, and Confusion Explained

  • Sobhan
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Graduate Field Theory vs Lattice: Why Do Calculations Yield Different Results?

  • gonadas91
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Graduate Ladder operators in Klein -Gordon canonical quantisation

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Graduate How do I plot this probability density over time?

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Insights What Are the Local Observables in Higher Prequantum Geometry?

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Graduate What is the purpose of introducing the spin state along H

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Graduate Eigenfunctions of the angular momentum operator

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Graduate Multiple Measurements of a single Qubit

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Graduate Comparison between quantum entanglement and a classical version

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Graduate Can Any Traceless Self-Adjoint 2x2 Matrix Be Expressed Using Pauli Matrices?

  • Frank Einstein
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Graduate How to Represent Eigenvectors in Column Matrix Form Using Bra-Ket Notation?

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Graduate Diffraction in a single slit setting

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Graduate Dispersion operator in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Dirac equation and structure of spacetime

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Graduate Correlation funciton of a system with translational symmetry

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Graduate Minimizing energy for external field

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Graduate Particle in Ring: Solving Standing Wave

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