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Graduate Is quantum physics fundamentally incompatible with classical physics?

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Graduate Derivation of T1 term in Bloch equations

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Graduate Does not finding an electron in a search collapse its wave function?

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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?

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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

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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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Graduate Does Conscious Observation Influence Quantum State Collapse?

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Graduate Is an electron considered a singularity by some physicists?

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Graduate QM notes with entanglement, Bell, decoherence, etc.

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Graduate Superposition / Probability Wave - frame rate problem?

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Graduate How to Graph an Electron Orbital?

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Graduate Can this be explained using statistical mechanics only?

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Graduate What do multiple quantum numbers in a ket notation mean?

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Graduate How does scalar field transform under Lorentz transformation?

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Graduate Question on quantum entanglement

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Graduate How to Relate \(\frac{1}{m^2}\lambda J^4\) to Figure 1.7.1 in Zee's QFT Book?

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Graduate What does spin up and spin down mean in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Implications of the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser

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Graduate Dirac Equation - Analytic Solution?

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Graduate Are Hilbert spaces still necessary?

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Graduate Ground state and stationary states

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Graduate What actually happens when light meets a surface(QED or QM)?

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Graduate Do Spin-Orbit Interactions change the Orbital of an Electron

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The Dancing WuLi Masters: Fact or Fiction?

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Undergrad Introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics and maybe QFT

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Undergrad Understanding STM Microscopes: The Role of Voltage in Physics

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Graduate What operators are involved in angular momentum states?

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Graduate Is DCQE erasing information or resetting the system?

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Undergrad Schrodinger's cat, the multiverse and isolated systems

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Graduate Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect explanation

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Graduate Can Non Realism = Non Deterministic Hidden Variable Theory

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Graduate Is quantum programming really possible?

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Graduate Thermal Emission and Scattering (Mie or Rayleigh)

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Graduate Comments - Some Useful Integrals In Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Macroscopic observation of interference?

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High School How does quantum tunneling occur without an observer?

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High School Do each point in solid have a special energy state?

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Graduate Measurement operator for Chsh experiment

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Graduate Quantum Threshold Scheme , no cloning theorem

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Graduate Is electron-electron excitation the same as the photoelectric effect?

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Graduate Does the Spin of an Atom's Electrons Affect its Orbital Configuration?

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Graduate What's the universe collapsing into?

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Graduate Is there a difference between an electron anti-neutrino and a positron neutrino?

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Undergrad Is the Planck length the smallest measurable length?

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Graduate Can (almost) all the properties be entangled

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Graduate Can uncertainty principle explain why a compressed floor pushes back?

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Graduate Dimensional analysis on equation including scattering length

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Graduate Does CP Violation Influence Entropy Through Altered Thermal Radiation?

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High School How Does Quantum Entanglement Not Violate Causality?

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Graduate Double slit experiment - bias towards normal pattern?

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Graduate Commutator of creation/annihilation operators (continuum limit)

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Graduate Weinberg 5.9.34: Is Charge Conservation Resolved?

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Graduate How to Generate a 3D Grid for Tight Binding Wave Functions?

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Graduate Double slit experiment and mirrors

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Graduate Can Electron Teleportation Occur in Small Time Intervals?

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Graduate Sterman's QFT - 2.7b (on functional derivatives)

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Graduate What is the accepted interpretation of the quantum nature of matter?

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Graduate QM and Crook's Fluctuation Theorem

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Graduate The Significance of the Hermition Conjugate in Wave Functions

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Graduate Kim's delayed choice quantum eraser -- Is it really delayed?

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Graduate Delayed choice measurement subsequent analysis

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Graduate How is speed of light in glass defined in QM/QED?

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Undergrad Empty space in atoms vs orbits

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Graduate Can hidden variable theories assign values to observables?

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Graduate Understanding Eigenfunctions and Operators in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate How to construct Slater determinants for helium ground and excited states

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Graduate How different can quantum vacuums be?

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Graduate Relationship between measurement and temperature

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Graduate Raman Spectroscopy: Why Peaks of Stokes Higher than Anti-Stokes?

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Graduate Resolution to the Delayed choice quantum eraser?

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Graduate Polarisation destroying interference pattern for double slit

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Graduate Experimental verification of matter waves?

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Graduate Can extra dimensions explain entanglement without superluminal signaling?

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Graduate Can We Track a Photon's Path in the Double Slit Experiment?

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Graduate Does classical vacuum permittivity have a QM analog?

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Graduate Kronecker function products - matrix format

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Graduate What happens to quantum mechanics if Planck constant is zero?

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Insights Some sins in physics didactics - comments

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Graduate Do momentum and kinetic energy operators always commute for a free particle?

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Graduate How to estimate the power of laser beam

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Graduate Decoherence and double-slit with eraser

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Graduate Particle in a box with the finite depth

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Graduate About wavepacket unit and probability

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Graduate Bra's and Ket's independent of basis?

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Graduate How 2 particles become entangled?

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Graduate QED renormalization in Peskin's

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Graduate Is the potential V=(|x|-a)² exactly solvable in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Is Light a Particle or a Wave According to Quantum Theory?

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Graduate Wavefunction collaps past/future effect

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Graduate What is QCD (quantum chromodynamics)?

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Graduate What is the Entropy of a System with Doubly Degenerate Energy Level?

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Graduate Double slit experiment with 2 detectors

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