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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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 Questions on Photon Excitations: Eigen-Modes & Boundary Conditions
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Graduate Ladder operators and matrix elements...
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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 Creation Operator is not a densely defined operator....
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Graduate Does quantum gravity argue that space is not singularly....
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Graduate Clarification on Schrodinger's Equation
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Graduate Difference of Hydrogen Hamiltonian with relative mass particles
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High School Understanding Quantum Computers: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Question about QM description of metallic conduction
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Graduate Massless fermions Klein tunneling
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Graduate Can the following explain randomness in quantum events?
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Graduate How quantum confinement can be obtained?
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Graduate How did physics operators come into being?
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Graduate Special Relativity: Lenght contraction and a photon.
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Graduate How Many Basis Vectors in Hilbert Space?
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Graduate Measuring spin of a free electron
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Graduate Can the wave function be considered a real wave?
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Graduate What is a fundamental particle according to QFT?
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Graduate How do they measure quark masses? Quark charges?
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Graduate Negative Probabilities and Macroscopic Realism in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Quantum Optics fails to explain origin of natural line width?
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Graduate Charge conjugation matrix and Dirac equation's solutions
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Graduate Quantum mechanics emerging from vibrating fluid
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Graduate If we restarted the Universe n Times from T=0......
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Graduate Proving (A_{ik}B_{kj})_{mm} = (A_{ki}B_{jk})_{mm}: Index Notation Question
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Graduate About energy conservation in QM?
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Graduate Semi-classical argument for stimulated emission?
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Graduate Electrons are not elementary particles?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle and double slit
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Graduate Possibility of violations of Born's rule in two dimensions?
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Graduate Problem of superluminal communication in Non-local HVTs
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Graduate A time-energy uncertainty relation
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Graduate Index Notation, multiplying scalar, vector and tensor.
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Graduate Understanding Quasiparticles: Definition, Properties, and Role in Physics
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Graduate Does local realism imply separability?
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Graduate A Thought Experiment: Photons Passing through Detectors
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Graduate Has this variant of the famous double slit experiment ever...
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Graduate Quantum Hamiltonian: Reconciling the Discrepancy
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Graduate Two slit experiment with a wavy screen
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Graduate Tunneling with broadening of energy levels
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Graduate How many universes in multiverse?
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Graduate What information is carried by single quantum objects?
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Graduate Two Slit Experiment: Detectors
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Graduate Discover Eigenfunctions & Eigenvalues in Triangular Quantum Well
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Graduate Understand Spin & Real Space: x,y,z & s_x,s_y,s_z
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Graduate Distance between energy states?
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Graduate QCD Colors: What Do They Mean?
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Graduate Photons and nonstandard analysis
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Undergrad Mechanics of the photoelectric effect
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Graduate Can a beam of light guide or manipulate electrons in motion?
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Graduate Is Consciousness Linked to Quantum Superposition and Entanglement?
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Graduate Can Photons Transmit Negative Momentum?
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High School Electron Wave Behavior in Transistors - Yashtir Gopee
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Graduate No problem, happy to help! Enjoy your vacation!
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Graduate Concept of Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Index Notation, taking derivative
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Graduate What Does Sharp Mean in Quantum States?
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Graduate Relation between HO and this hamiltonian
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Graduate The use in solving the Klein Gordon equation?
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Graduate Klein-Gordon eqn: why dismiss messages at phase velocity
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Graduate Unit vectors for multiple particles? (Quantum Mechanics)
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Graduate Confusion about time-ordering operator
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Graduate Vacuum energy and harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Does derivative of wave function equal zero at infinity?
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Graduate What is the concept of a pure state in the electromagnetic field?
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Graduate Is Retrocausality inherently deterministic?
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Graduate Product of two propagators U(-t)U(t) in coord representation
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Graduate Little issue in Relativistic Quantum Physics
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Undergrad Bell's Theorem: more general interactions with detector?
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Graduate Little issue with relativistic quantum mechanics
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Graduate Is Information Truly Conserved in Black Hole Dynamics?
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Graduate Is the Energy of a Spin 1/2 Particle Always Equal to h/2?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics in the real field
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Graduate Particle/antiparticle annihilation problem near blackholes
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Graduate Did they do a Loopholes free Bell test?
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Graduate QM & Relativity: The Hardest Problems to Solve
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Graduate Observer Effect hype in Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: In the Round?
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Undergrad Joy Christian's theory - a simple explanation for the Bell test paradox?
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Graduate Double Slit, Detector, Light -- Pattern?
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Graduate Position and momentum of particle in double slit experiment?
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