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Graduate Lagrangian of a Photon: Understanding the Fundamental Particle in Light

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Graduate Practical stuff in quantum physics

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Graduate Probability over universe = 0 or 1?

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Graduate Mathematics of entanglement in quantum erasers

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Graduate Understanding the Unruh Effect on Accelerated Teapots and Boiling Water

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Graduate Do wave functions go to zero at ~ct?

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Graduate Why chiral fermions don't exist in odd dimensions?

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Graduate Inner product for vector field in curved background

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Graduate What does the g-factor, from say ESR, tell you?

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Graduate Understanding Bell Theorem: A Noob's Perspective

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Graduate BEC question about number of excited particles

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Graduate I wonder what the name of this normalization process is

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Graduate Euclidean Feynman rules for QED

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Graduate Explanation of wave-particle picture, light

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Graduate Hamiltonian in the position basis

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Graduate Entangled "information" sent faster than light (....not)

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Graduate The Uncertainty of Time in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Vacuum state Lorentz invariance

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Undergrad Transform from Magnitude of P to R

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Undergrad Resting masses of isolated neutrons versus neutrons in atoms

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Graduate Product of two exponentials of different operators

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Graduate How Does Chirality Affect the Dirac Adjoint in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Are Additional Postulates Hidden in the Quantum Derivation from Galilei Algebra?

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Graduate Does charge conjugation affect parity?

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Graduate Eigenfunction/Eigenvalue question

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Graduate Would an idea be a particle or a wave or both?

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Graduate Why does not the graviton cause wavefunction collapse?

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Graduate What is the physical definition of a state in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Pilot Wave Theory: A Different Perspective on Quantum Mechanics

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Where can I get Casimir plates?

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Graduate Locality, unitarity & vacuum energy

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Graduate What is the collision probability for an energetic photon in free space?

  • Ponderer
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Graduate How Do Tensor Products Model Multi-Particle Operators in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What does Higgs partcle impart mass to?

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Graduate Issue with integral in dimensional regularization

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Graduate Understanding Photon Polarization with Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Very basic question on Hamiltonian representation?

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Graduate Quantum fluctuations and order

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Graduate Collapse with and without measurement

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Graduate Quantum oscillator from position to momentum space

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Graduate Why does the rate of transitions depend on the population of the ground state?

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Graduate Rotational Spectra of Diatomic Molecules

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Undergrad What causes paramagnetism and diamagnetism

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Graduate How Does the Quantum Monty Hall Problem Challenge Classical Probability?

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Graduate Definition of the Path Integral

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Graduate Computing Entanglement Entropy of CFTs in the Large-c Limit

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High School Is the cat alive, dead, both or unknown

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Graduate Is the wave function more like a soccer ball, or a golf ball

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Graduate Quantum Physics behind the greenhouse effect.

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Graduate Wave function of multiple particles

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Undergrad How far apart can slits be in double slit experiment to still show interference?

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High School Energy Levels in Hydrogen: Calculating Photon Energy & Wavelength

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Graduate Momentum Operator In Curved Spacetime

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Undergrad Difference between "Spin" and "Angular Momentum"?

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Graduate How Does Zee Simplify Integrals in QFT Derivations?

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Undergrad What does Wave Function actually measure?

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Graduate Unlearning / Relearning Feynman's 2-Boson Stuff?

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Graduate No vibration spectrum for homonuclear diatomic molecules?

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Graduate Shankar- Simultaneous Diagonalisation of Hermitian Matrices

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Graduate Cross Section Calc. in Peskin QFT - How to Deal with g^μν.g_μν?

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High School Illusion that shell, subshell and orbitals are the same

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Graduate Ballentine-sections 3.2 and 3.3

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Graduate John Wheeler's Legacy: A Look at His Impact on Physics

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Graduate Can we violate Bell inequalities by giving up CFD?

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Graduate Why do electrons have band widths or energy bands?

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Graduate Eigenvalue of lowering operator

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Graduate What's the unitary matrix equivalent to a beam splitter?

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Graduate Transmission and Reflection amplitude

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Graduate Temporary dipole moments and energy conservation

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Graduate Ballentine's (3.49) and (3.50)

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Graduate How Does QED Explain the Electromagnetic Force

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Graduate Matrix form of Density Operator

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Graduate Equipartition of energy in Rayleigh-Jeans law

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Undergrad Hydrogen Spectra: Absorbtion in White Light Explained

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Graduate Hamiltonian defined as 1st derivative

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Graduate What actually triggers the collapse of the wave function ?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics - Induction Method

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Undergrad Is the Big Bang Theory the end of time, not beginning?

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Graduate What happened to the denominator?

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Graduate Excitation of two-atom state by single photon : FTL hope?

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Graduate Potential energy in strong- and weak- nuclear interaction

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Graduate Schrödinger Eq: Questions on Mass, Uncertainty & Pi

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Graduate Can future events affect the past?

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Graduate Comments - How Fundamental is the Arrow of Time?

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Graduate Simple Harmonic Oscillator Zero Probability Points

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Graduate What is the Concept of Colour Force in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Indivisible units of time and the quantum eraser experiment

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Undergrad Why is information that cannot be seen called entropy?

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Graduate What is the derivation for the vacuum density of states in the Purcell effect?

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Graduate Calculating the Average Value of Square Spin for a Composite System

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Graduate Are Neutrinos Tachyons? The Mystery of Massless Particles Explained

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Graduate Do we need quantum mechanics to explain biological stuff?

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Graduate QM Sankar 2nd edition -- gram schmidt process on example 1.3.2

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Undergrad Is matrix hermitian and its eigenvectors orthogonal?

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Graduate Double Slit Question: Path Information & Observer's Experiences

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Graduate Unruh Effect: Instantly Gaining Information from Acceleration

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Graduate Clarifying the Meaning of "Random" in Quantum Physics

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Graduate Quantum conditions for position and momentum operators

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Graduate What is the Schmidt Rank and Its Role in Measuring Entanglement?

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Graduate What is the wave function for the whole system/atom ?

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