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Graduate Gaussian wave packet in position space

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Graduate What are the units for ΔxΔp in the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Comments - Measuring Quantum Entanglement?

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Graduate Probability normalization with finite limits and operator expectations

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Graduate The operator X for the position in QFT

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Graduate How to Calculate Casimir Force with Dielectric Vacuum Between Metal Plates?

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Graduate Does measuring one photon preserve entanglement with the other?

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Graduate 2D Projective Complex Space, Spin

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Graduate What is the smallest portion of energy?

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Graduate Is Frequency Quantized in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Does a Buckyball spin like an electron or like a baseball?

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Graduate Is Probability conserved in RQM?

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Graduate Normalization of free scalar field states

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Graduate Effect of acceleration on entanglement

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Undergrad Why do we use i to represent phasors and/or vectors?

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Graduate Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality

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Graduate Momentum eigenfunctions proof and Fourier Transform question

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Graduate Delayed choice as a quantum logic circuit

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Graduate Knowing which-path information by calculating distance time?

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Graduate No-cloning and stimulated emission

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Graduate In Bell are pairs independent?

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Graduate Sources to learn about Berry phases and Adiabatic Theorem

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Graduate Collisional excitation: selection rules for rotations?

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Graduate Quantum Property: Can a Particle Have It Both Ways?

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High School Can a particle exist without time

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Graduate Schrodinger equation numerical solution

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Graduate Divergence of integral over vacuum energies (Free field)

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Graduate Why does the intensity of Bremsstrahlung radiation increase with lower energy?

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Graduate Representations of Poincare group

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Graduate Conservative physical quantities

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Graduate Separability of Hilbert Spaces

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Graduate Fields as operator valued distributions

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Graduate Does empty space have a mass effect?

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Graduate What is the role of spherical harmonics in quantum mechanics?

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High School Speed of interaction between entangled particles

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Graduate Does time exist at Quantum level?

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Graduate Does decoherence constitute measurement and can superposition be restored?

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Graduate Does exchange of identical particles lead to new state?

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Graduate Why is QFT insensitive to absolute energies?

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Undergrad Double slit particle distribution with convex lens?

  • Nav
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Graduate Vacuum fluctions and the Casimir Effect

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Graduate State Vectors as elements of Hilbert Space

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Undergrad Entanglement Swapping and measurement vs. observation

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Graduate Could we calculate the number of Planck flops in a human lifetime?

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Graduate Interacting Quantum Field Theory: Ground State

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Graduate Total spin of triplet and singlet states

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Graduate What does the abrupt stop in black hole complexity mean?

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Graduate Confusion about Rayleigh-Jeans law

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Graduate Why do changing magnetic fields produce electric fields?

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Graduate What is the condition for a particle to go into a square potential well?

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Graduate Bell inequality violated with classical light in experiment

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Graduate Who would be interested in an EPR thought experiment?

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Graduate How Can Gravitons Escape A Black Hole?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate Thought double-slit experiment

  • En Joy
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Graduate No interference pattern in double slit when there is a lens?

  • Nav
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Graduate Question on the photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics an artifact of our ignorance?

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Graduate Can an observer define a particle's position or does it remain probabilistic?

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Graduate Flame colors - where's the chlorine?

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New paper on quantum entanglement in condensed matter systems

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Graduate Do observables for polarizers at different angles commute?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle if position is restricted

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Insights You Will Not Tunnel Through a Wall - Comments

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Undergrad Why electrons never make contact with the nucleus?

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Graduate Does SU(2) rotation automatically imply spinor rotation?

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Graduate Quantum locking -- Good sources of info?

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Graduate Does the CMB wavefunction spread over 13 billion years?

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Graduate Schrodinger equation - stationary states

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Graduate Why particle in a box wavefunction isn't an eigenfunction of momentum

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Graduate A "false" superimposed qubit vs a "real one"

  • Julian Blair
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Graduate Observed interference in afshar's double slit experiment?

  • Nav
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Graduate Is There One Electromagnetic Field in the Universe or Multiple Fields?

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Graduate Noetherian currents and the Surface term

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Graduate Particle waves through a potential barrier

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Graduate Physical difference between singlet and triplet states

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Graduate What do you understand about quantum entanglement?

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Graduate In what sense do within-H-atom electrons "move" at ~1/137c?

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Graduate Is it possible to travel to parallel universes?

  • nivak
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Graduate Finding coefficients of superposition of states

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Graduate Do other quantum states disappear when you measure one in the many-worlds interpretation?

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High School How did the electron first start spinning around an atom?

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Graduate Symmetric and Antisymmetric Depiction

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Graduate Why does measuring Sz make Sx uncertain for a spin 1/2 particle?

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Graduate Representation of spin matrices

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Fate of the Bucket in a Thought Experiment?

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Graduate Implications of the no-clone theorem

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Graduate Calculation of the running coupling

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Graduate Commutation between operators of different Hilbert spaces

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Undergrad What are the unusual properties of monatomic gold?

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Graduate Is the speed of light in a vacuum affected by an electric field?

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Undergrad Why do some photons reflect off glass if they can't excite electrons?

  • Christian Grey
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Graduate Atomic dipole moment for a superposition state

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Graduate What is the problem with point particles?

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Graduate Why Are There Blank Spaces in Quantum Mechanics Orbitals?

  • Danilo Boskovic
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Graduate Learning path for quantum mechanics mathematics from scratch

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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty question

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Graduate Law of baryon conservation questions

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Graduate Faster-than-light signaling with entangled electrons to Mars

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Graduate Hamiltonian matrix representation for a particle on a circle

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Graduate Dirac Relativistic Wave Equation

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