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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?

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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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Graduate Superselection rules and non-observable Hermitian operators

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Graduate Why are the Higgs boson and graviton different?

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Graduate How do you define the Eigenstates for the number operator?

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Graduate Test functions in wightman axioms

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Graduate How did Max Planck derive his constant H?

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Graduate Confusion about Slater Determinants

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Graduate Derivation of 1st order correction to energy degenerate spec

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Graduate Poincare group representations

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Graduate How does equation (16) follow from equation (14) in Kohn-Sham theory?

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Graduate Smallest possible spinning clock?

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Graduate Time frame of entangled particles

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Graduate Conditions in Wave Function, and Integration

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Undergrad Why is Black body radiation continuous?

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Graduate About photons and it's quality

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Insights Higher prequantum geometry III: the global action functional cohomologically

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Graduate Formula- first order correction to the n-th wave func

  • Imperatore
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Graduate Griffiths Quantum Question. Unit-less Schrodinger Equation.

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Undergrad Making a program to model the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Understanding photon direction

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Graduate Does the ubiquitousness of EM fields explain single particle

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Graduate Representation of conjugate momentum

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Graduate Are electrons smeared objects prior to measurement?

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Undergrad Why is a leading figure of 1 so special in uncertainties?

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Graduate Was does it mean if one views the wave function as "real"?

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Graduate What does time-reversal symmetry mean?

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Graduate What is the Yukawa interaction and why isn't it part of the standard model?

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Graduate Caculating ground state energy using GTO

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Graduate What Are the Values of Matrices β, αk, pk in the Dirac Equation?

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Graduate Deriving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation from de Broglie relations

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Graduate Operators implementation with operators

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Graduate Wave function description and Schrödinger's equation

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Graduate What Are the Bounds in Position Space After a Fourier Transform?

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Graduate Energy Conservation in Quantum Systems - Is it Possible?

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Graduate Can communication between two distant points be instantaneous?

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Graduate Can QFT adequately describe the elusive properties of photons?

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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum computing

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Graduate Looking for online videos on QFT using path integral method

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Graduate What if a photon interacts with a slower photon in front?

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Graduate Does index notation differ between relativity and QFT?

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Graduate Wave Packet Confusion: Questions about Particle Creation and Motion

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Graduate Do photons exist as particles or just as energy quanta?

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Insights Higher Prequantum Geometry II: the Principle of Extremal Action - Comments

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Graduate Is transition dipole moment the cause or result of state transitions?

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Graduate QM probability and normal distribution

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Graduate Are Quantum Mechanics and a rotating fan comparable?

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High School Why quantum physics like a math theory till a physics theory

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Undergrad Why carbon is used in nano technology?

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Graduate How do quarks determine which quarks to pair with?

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High School Tom Campbell and his outrageous claim

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Graduate The atom as a classical object

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Graduate Measurement problem and computer-like functions

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Graduate Probability of particle to exceed C?

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Graduate Quantum Tunnel Macro-Scale Structure Disassembly

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Graduate Relationships between QM and QFT Particles

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Graduate Expansion of the solution if interacting KG equation

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Undergrad An electron in atom that rotate proton, has it radiation?

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Graduate Many interacting worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

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Graduate How Does a Spin-1/2 Particle Behave in a Magnetic Field with X and Z Components?

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Graduate What information can one obtain from a wave function?

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Undergrad Is it possible for an electron to emit more than one photon during fluorescence?

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Graduate Why wavefunction is not seen as substance distribution?

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Graduate How Fourier components of vector potential becomes operators

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Graduate Position Vector in Wave Functions

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Graduate Stimulated emission and polarization - a thought experiment

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Graduate Can the Other Eigenvalue Be Measured After an Initial Measurement?

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Graduate 2D Schroedinger eq. vs Bohr's model?

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Graduate Zero-point energy and QED vacuum state

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Graduate What are the branches of Quantum Theory?

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Graduate How to get position operator in momentum space?

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Graduate Second quantized hamiltonian change basis

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Graduate Time Reversal Spin: Why Does it Require Flipping?

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Graduate Superposition and stationary states

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Graduate Can Light Really Have Mass According to Harvard-MIT Research?

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Undergrad Double slit experiment (geometric maths problem)

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Graduate Why does this anticommutator yield this particular result?

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Graduate Can a single photon eigenmode transmit energy and information?

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Graduate Matrix elements of X³ and P² using ladder operators

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Graduate Solving the Indefinite Integral for <xp>=<px>*

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Graduate Diminishing wave-functions

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Undergrad Decay of Matter: Will It Last Forever?

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Undergrad Quantum well, Types of triangular ones

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Graduate Why is the creation operator not densely defined?

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Graduate Does quantum gravity challenge spacetime's rectilinear motion?

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Graduate Does Schrödinger's equation describe particle position, energy and spin?

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Graduate Difference of Hydrogen Hamiltonian with relative mass particles

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High School How do quantum computers work and why are they different from classical computers?

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