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Graduate Single electron wave packet in Fock space?

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle clarification

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Undergrad Bohr's Hydrogen Model: Does Electron Absorb All Energy?

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Graduate Schrödinger equation for 2 particles

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Graduate How do we solve for equation 1.8.7 on page 33 of Shankar's QM 2nd Edition?

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Graduate How can potentials be well-defined without violating U.P.?

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Graduate Derivation of Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Quantum Zeno Effect: What is the argument?

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Graduate Measuring Rabi Oscillations in a Two State Atom

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Undergrad What Is the Mass Defect of a Hydrogen Atom?

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Graduate Understanding the Energy of Photon Pulses in the James-Cummings Model

  • Julian Blair
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Graduate Orbital Angular Momentum: Need at least 2 particles?

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Graduate Gravitation and Decoherence : New Scientist Article

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Graduate Different Ways of Trapping A Single Atom?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate Understanding the Fixed Energy of Electrons in Bohr's Orbit

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Graduate Electron double slit experiment

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Graduate What Does 0.1 Expected Photon Per Pulse Mean in Quantum Cryptography?

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Graduate Double slit interference from antenna

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Graduate What Are the Key Differences Between 3D Nano-Materials and Bulk Materials?

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Graduate Dimensionality of the wavefunction in relative state

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Graduate Newbie question about quantum physics

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Graduate Assume or discover? Is this a false dichotomy?

  • Lucy Meadows
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Graduate Quantum Spectrum of a Hamiltonian with Linear Potential

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Graduate Does expansion a(t) affect QM probability density?

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Graduate Measuring Electron Recoil from Photon Emission: Experiments & Methods

  • Danyon
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Graduate Photons from two sources versus one source

  • Swamp Thing
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Experiments Showing Limitless Distance

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Graduate Bounds of Integration for Random Oriented particle

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Graduate What is meant actually by superposition?

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Graduate Measurement problem in classical probability

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Graduate What is the global and local symmetry in gauge theory?

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Graduate What is the relationship between photons and electrons in quantum field theory?

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Graduate The relation between classical from quantum vs measurement perspective

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Graduate If probability wave is true wouldn't there be flickering?

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Graduate Quantum field theory questions?

  • Nick V
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Graduate Compute subband structure of graphene

  • Isaac.Wang88
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Graduate What if dark energy is just orphan energy floating around in the universe?

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Graduate What are some good pedagogical QM papers?

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Graduate Relativistic Boltzmann (including QM) equation from entropy?

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Graduate How Is the Cross Section Related to the Imaginary Part of the Action?

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Measurement Rules Quantum Universe

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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty principle calculations

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Graduate What is renormalization exactly?

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Graduate How far do W+ - and Z guage bosons travel in m?

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Graduate What Dictates the Spin Direction of an Electron?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate General solution for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Delayed choice experiment article on science alert

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Graduate Question about harmonic poential trap

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Graduate Measurement, Quantum Wierdness and Single-Effect Events

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Graduate Understanding Photon Absorption in Radio Wavelengths: 3 Key Questions Explored

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Graduate Can Electrons Bounce Off Voltage Potentials?

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Graduate Can Quantum Physics Redefine Our Understanding of Free Will?

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Graduate Quantum State of Cards: Is the Top Card Set Before Viewing?

  • Jim Frank
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Graduate Is there a quantum theory of other entities besides particles and fields?

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Graduate Two different ways? (probability denstities and currents)

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Graduate When are isomorphic Hilbert spaces physically different?

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Graduate Position measurement in Non-Relativistic QM

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Graduate Bell's Inequality - A misintepretation of probability?

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Graduate How Can You Access Time Reversibility in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What is a topological phase transition and how is it characterized?

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Graduate Electron recoil from light emission

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Graduate Solving Low-Density Fock Spacings Issues with "Product Fock Spaces

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Graduate How Long Do Quantum Effects Last in Biological Processes?

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Graduate Entangled photons and their Parents

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Graduate Wilson Loop and spontaneous symmetry breaking.

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Graduate Radiation of accelerated charge in QM

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Graduate Quantum explanation for Passive Intermodulation (PIM)

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Graduate What's the problem with (non-causal) nonlocality?

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Graduate Integral kernel in vacuum wave functional

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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: one at a time

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Graduate SU(N) symmetry breaking by non-trivial parity.

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Graduate Reduced Density Matrix Entropy in 1D Spin Chain

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Graduate Shrodinger's cat is "invisible"

  • Justice Hunter
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Undergrad Zero Potential Level: Excited State or Not?

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Have 'Elegant' Trajectories in Hilbert Space?

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Graduate Quantum entanglement on a cosmological scale?

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Graduate Photon emission from dipole antenna

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Graduate How/why decoherence rather than how/why coherence

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Graduate Books on quantum mechanics with intuition

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Group Theory questions

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Undergrad Electron Orbitals: Learn about Shapes & Charges

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Graduate Classical versus quantum momentum

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Graduate Dirac Hydrogen Atom: Parity and Odd-Operator

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Graduate Shouldn't a metal at 0K emit electromagnetic radiation?

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Graduate The quantum number n and its restrictions

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Graduate Explore Quantum Visualization and Single Particle Interference Simulation

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Graduate Calculate Eigen Function of 3D Potential Box w/ Doubled X Side

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Graduate Is a photon of dimension zero?

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Graduate Expected result of such an experiment?

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Graduate Why no decoherence after reflection from metal film

  • Swamp Thing
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Graduate How can you actually measure the electron position?

  • Tomishiyo
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Graduate Energy of the electron in a random hydrogen atom

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Graduate Radiative heat transfer in multi-component media

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Graduate Understanding the Planck Scale

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Graduate QED vacuum and Lorentz invariance

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Insights How to Stop an Electron from Falling into a Proton - Comments

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Graduate Identical Particles in Ballentine's Book

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Graduate Units of Wave function (Schrodinger equation)

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Graduate Confused about angular momentum

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Graduate Understanding ultraviolet catastrophe

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