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Graduate Quantum mechanical 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 Would restarting the universe from T=0 produce identical outcomes?

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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 Interference pattern with detectors on each slit of a grating

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Graduate Double slit experiment with magnetic field near the slits

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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

  • Tom B
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Graduate Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues in a triangular quantum well

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Graduate Why do spin operators use spatial coordinates x,y,z?

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Graduate Distance between energy states?

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Graduate What do colors mean in quantum chromodynamics?

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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 light beam deflect or concentrate moving electrons?

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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 Self energy and bare mass in scalar field theory like Higgs

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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 equation: can superluminal phase velocity violate causality?

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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 Can hidden variables exist in photon-filter interactions in Bell tests?

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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 Why is there no relativistic quantum mechanics like the Schrödinger equation?

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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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High School Weak measurement in double slit experiment gives which path

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Graduate Questions about the Casimir energy equation

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Graduate Can stimulated emissions from CO2 be absorbed?

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Graduate Why is probability amplitude squared?

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Graduate Quantum Disturbances: What to Know

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Undergrad How does stimulated emission occur in lasers?

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Graduate Stimulated Emission = Stimulated Absorption

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Graduate Numerical solution of Schrodinger equation script

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Graduate Finding the Total Angular Momentum

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Graduate Susskind lecture 2: electron prepared in magnetic field

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Graduate Where to find experimental correlation curves?

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High School Magnetic Wormholes: Reality or Fiction?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate Momentum Operator Derivation Questions

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Graduate Rotations in Bloch Sphere, and Free Parameters of a Qubit

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Graduate Only 4 possible single-qbit states?

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Graduate Photons acceleration in refraction

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Graduate What's the difference between a point and singularity?

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Graduate Operations in operational probabilistic theories

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Graduate What Happens When a Collapsed and Non-Collapsed Wave Function Combine?

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High School Can a many-worlds universe contain a world where parallel universes don't exist?

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Graduate What does each term in Schrödinger's equation represent?

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Graduate Can a material become transparent with enough light?

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Graduate Lagrangian of fields from Feynman diagrams

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Graduate Do All Objects Have Intrinsic Spin?

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Graduate Atom Localisation: Get Started with Study Material

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Graduate Fixed amplitude of electric field operator in quantum optics

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Graduate Additional Phase factors in SU(2)

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