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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 Is Decoherence essentially a measurement? Then what?

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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?

  • Jimster41
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Graduate Interacting Quantum Field Theory: Ground State

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Graduate Total spin of triplet and singlet states

  • K448
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Graduate Does Black Hole Quantum Complexity Challenge Our Understanding of Wormholes?

  • Justice Hunter
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Graduate Confusion about Rayleigh-Jeans law

  • En Joy
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Graduate Why do changing magnetic fields produce electric fields?

  • Jeff Rosenbury
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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 Observational Effect: Defining Particle Position

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Graduate Flame colors - where's the chlorine?

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A New Thread: 5,000th Post & New Paper!

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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 SU(2) Rotation & Spinors: Connected?

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Graduate Quantum locking -- Good sources of info?

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Graduate Question about quantum superposition in CMB photons

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Graduate Schrodinger equation - stationary states

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Graduate A question about commutaiton between operator

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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?

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Graduate Finding coefficients of superposition of states

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Graduate Parallel Universe: Do Many Possibilities Dissolve?

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High School The Electron's First Spin: An Overview

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Graduate Symmetric and Antisymmetric Depiction

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Graduate Spin 1/2 Particle: Uncertainty Principle Explained

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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 High Spin: Unraveling the Mystery of Mono Atomic 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 photons reflect off glass?

  • 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?

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Graduate Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty question

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Graduate Law of baryon conservation questions

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Graduate EPR & Bell: What's Wrong with My Scenario?

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Graduate Hamilton Operator for particle on a circle -- Matrix representation....

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Graduate Dirac Relativistic Wave Equation

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Graduate Are Quantum Physics & Classical Physics incompatible?

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Graduate Derivation of T1 term in Bloch equations

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Graduate Quantum Biology: Life on the Edge - Where is the Electron?

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High School Is quantum physics a theory of unknowledge ?

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Graduate Why do Black Holes evaporate due to Hawking radiation?

  • lightoflife
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Graduate Using GHz multi-particle entanglement for FTL communication

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Graduate Do X-Ray Tracks in Photo Film Suggest Quantum Entanglement?

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Graduate Can I Make a Casimir Device at Home?

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Graduate Does entangled polarized photon get through filter?

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Graduate Total angular momentum operator for a superposition

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Graduate Harmonic oscillator coherent state wavefunction

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Graduate Field Excitations and their Collisions

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate Coherence length of a single photon

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Graduate Why do we need a normalisation constant for wavefunctions?

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