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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 does a metal mirror preserve interference without decoherence?

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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 Can all classical fields be quantized at 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 L² and Lz matrices for l=2 and adding angular momentum vectors

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Graduate Understanding ultraviolet catastrophe

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Graduate How Do Qubits and Multiple Qubit Systems Enhance Computing Power?

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Graduate Under what conditions is a photon a particle?

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Graduate Can Virtual Particles Be Observed in Experiments?

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Graduate Where is the flaw with predetermined entanglement state?

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Graduate How to calculate density matrix for the GHZ state

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Graduate Even and odd molecular orbitals under reflection in diatomic molecules

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Undergrad Why Does Light Exhibit Both Particle and Wave Properties?

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Graduate What do we mean by Classical Simulation of Quantum Algorithm

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High School What is the difference between simple harmonic wave and stationary wave?

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Graduate Why can the perturbed state be expanded in unperturbed eigenbasis?

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Graduate Question regarding the double slit experiment

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Graduate Ballistic conduction and Superconductivity

  • NewtonApple
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Graduate Why does the tensor product sum A⊗1+1⊗B equal its spectrum?

  • jk22
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Graduate Measurement of a Hydrogen qubit?

  • Julian Blair
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Graduate Green's Functions and Feynman Diagrams

  • rolotomassi
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Graduate Spin 1/2 - Is √3/2ħ or √¾ħ Correct?

  • Isaac0427
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Graduate What is the point to study Anti-bunching?

  • Lizzie Mann
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Graduate Difference between Griffiths and Shankar uncertainty principle equations

  • Zerkor
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Graduate Preparing a mixture of two spatially separated gaussian wavefunctions

  • Swamp Thing
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Graduate Physics behind the annihilator-creator operator formula

  • Lizzie Mann
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Graduate Scattering amplitude, link between quantum mechanics and QFT

  • Kurret
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Graduate Ammonia molecule geometry and radiation

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Graduate Observer Big Bang? How come electrons have a wave nowadays?

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Graduate Why does transmission depend on mass for barriers but not steps?

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Graduate Single photon double slit, reset detector after each impact

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Graduate Can measurement order affect entangled electron properties across Earth-Moon distance?

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Graduate Hiding the observer with gravitational measurements?

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Graduate What Algorithms Extract Information from Quantum Eigenvalues?

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Graduate Dispersion relation for non-relativistic quantum particles

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Graduate Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect question

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Graduate Are discrete particles and fields both present in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate More evidence that the wavefunction is ontologically real?

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Graduate Can we model classical world using quantum laws?

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Graduate Does the delayed choice quantum eraser vindicate von Neumann's collapse theory?

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Insights Why Renormalisation Needs a Cutoff - Comments

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Graduate Give mass to a massless scalar field in 1+1, Higgs like?

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Graduate Good Books on Quantum Computing and Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Are we wrong to try and unify quantum mechanics and relativity?

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Graduate Performing integration over field variable

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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Cause The Wave Function To Collapse?

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Graduate Cohen-Tannoudji on mutually exclusive (?) events

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Graduate Why Are Swap Gates Used in Quantum Fourier Transform Circuits?

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Graduate Why Quantum Mechanics is Complex

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Graduate About role of Planck constant in classical physics

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Graduate Does a vector operator require the total angular momentum in its commutation relation?

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Graduate Completeness for a single particle

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Graduate In-principle existence of which-way info

  • Swamp Thing
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Graduate How do electrons change states on their own?

  • ephen wilb
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Graduate Different classical limits of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Is it Valid to Treat a Solid as a Large Molecule in Calculating Specific Heat?

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Graduate Why do collapse functions change form in master equations?

  • Agrippa
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Graduate Potential energy term in Schrodinger's equation?

  • iScience
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Graduate What gives electrons and protons their electric charge?

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Graduate Suggested topics for a beginner in QP? What got you hooked?

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Graduate Mathematical conundrum when adding complex exponentials

  • Runei
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Graduate What Are Incomplete Collapses and Tails in Objective Collapse Theories?

  • ephen wilb
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Graduate How does the Pauli exclusion principle apply to protons?

  • Lance Fernandes
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Graduate What does it mean to measure a qubit in a different basis?

  • Ananthan9470
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Undergrad What is the difference between a vector and a vector space?

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Graduate KE operator and eigenfunctions

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Eraser Experiments

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Graduate A thought experiment of wavefunction collapse

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Graduate Current conservation beta function

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Graduate Can a pilot wave be instantaneous?

  • Terry M
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Graduate Why does anomaly mean symmetry is broken?

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Graduate Quantum Suicide: Why is only experimenter convinced?

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Graduate Feynman rules for nonlinear sigma models

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Graduate Bound states as a solution of free particles?

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Graduate Angular momentum of a free Dirac particle

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Graduate Are there separate quantum fields for spin 1/2 particles in modern QFT?

  • LarryS
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Graduate Software to calculate detection probability for simple cases

  • Swamp Thing
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English translation of Birgit Dopfer's two-photon interference thesis

  • Swamp Thing
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Graduate 'Information' in Quantum Physics

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Graduate Why does xenon exhibit more spectral lines than heavier elements like mercury?

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Graduate Wavefunctions of Singlet and Triplet States

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Graduate Calculation of proton's lifetime

  • aylakadamk
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Graduate Hamiltonian for a free electron in electromagnetic field

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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillators DE wavefunction

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Graduate Interpretation of a before $\gamma^{5}$ in J$_{\alpha}$

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Graduate Equation used to find kinetic energy of proton

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Graduate Feynman rules for Yukawa theory

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Graduate Set of postulates implies postulates of Q.M.?

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Graduate Quantum Computing Explained in 10 Sentences

  • ChristaSian
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Graduate Why electron doesn't fall on proton, quantum explanation

  • Tahmeed
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Graduate Can Quarks Break the Strong Nuclear Force?

  • Noaholter
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Graduate Finding Wavefunction with just the Hamiltonian

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