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Graduate The Optical Theorem (Total cross section?)

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Graduate Understanding Recoil in Photon Emission and the Role of Quantum Electrodynamics

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Graduate How should I understand quantum entanglement?

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Graduate Can Szego Projectors Be Interpreted as POVM in von Neumann Density Context?

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Graduate Holographic Universe. 2D Universe = Matrix?

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Graduate Mediating particles of forces.

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Graduate Help publishing personal quantum physics theories

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Graduate Wick theorem in "QFT for the Gifted Amateur"

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Graduate Descriptions of time evolution: closed vs open systems

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Graduate Interference on paper, ground glass etc. surfaces

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Graduate Energy-time uncertainty principle

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Graduate Emitting two photons in a single transition?

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Graduate Conditions for interaction in the quantum world

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Graduate Quantum Reality: Evidence for Everything Happening Simultaneously

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Graduate Kochen-Specker Theorem Assumptions

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Graduate Quantum Fourier transform

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Graduate Bose and Fermi statistics in 1+1 spacetime?

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Insights Renormalisation Made Easy - Comments

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Graduate How does vacuum polarization conserve energy?

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Graduate Is the Wave Function of a Photon the Same as a Classical Wave?

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Graduate Relation between adiabatic approximation and imaginary time

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Graduate How are individual photons and electrons detected in the double slit experiment?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect: Measuring Star Diameters

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Graduate Hubbard Stratonovich transformation

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Graduate Greens functions from path integral

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Undergrad Why does Bohr's model give correct hydrogen energy levels despite being wrong?

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Graduate Solution of equation for decaying real scalar field

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Graduate Fluctuation operator and partial wave

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Graduate Double slit over time, single slit in moment

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Graduate Interaction - Fundamental question

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Graduate Greens function path integral representation

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Graduate Does position of the eraser change the pattern in quantum erasure?

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Graduate What does a local non-realistic theory look like?

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Graduate Density of states in 2 dimensional box

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Graduate Boundary conditions of the radial Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Can photon entanglement violate special relativity in different frames?

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Graduate Expectation value of c†ₖcₗ for k ≠ l in fermionic ground state

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Graduate Does an object exist if it's shielded from the universe?

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Graduate Why are all particles bosons or fermions?

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Graduate Is Gravity a Force or a Deformation of Space?

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Graduate Photon as a Mathematical Concept in Theoretical Physics

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Graduate Why Use the Dirac Equation for Graphene Instead of the Schrödinger Equation?

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Graduate Single Slit Experiment: Details & Equations

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Evidence for a Holographic Reality?

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Graduate Bell theorem without hypotheses?

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Graduate Are photon probability amplitudes entangled in a two-filter setup?

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Graduate What classical theory predicts stopping potential increases with intensity?

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Graduate Do creation operators for different spins commute?

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Graduate About time symmetry in quantum physics

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Undergrad Can the future affect the past in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Gauge transformation which counteract wave function

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Insights Visualizing the 2-D Particle in a Box - comments

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Graduate The Wick rotation in position space

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Graduate Help with Density Operators: Peter Yu Seeks Assistance

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Graduate Eigenstates in a 3-state spin 1 system

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Graduate How Does the Inverse Bell Theorem Challenge Quantum Measurement Predictions?

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Graduate Proving Coherent States are Eigenfunctions of Annihilation Operators

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Graduate Equivalence between Weyl relations and CCR

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Graduate The free particle wave function <x|p>?

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Graduate Is Multi-Particle Entanglement Possible in Quantum Systems?

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Graduate Finding the maxima or minima of band-edges?

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Graduate Why does photon behavior in Feynman's QED seem like a wave function?

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Graduate How Does Unitarity Conserve Information?

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Undergrad Why is it called the ultraviolet catastrophe?

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Graduate Trying to understand electromagnetic waves in quantum theory

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Graduate How Does the Wavefunction Propagate for Infinitesimal Times?

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Graduate Light is faster than the speed of light

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Graduate How does energy transfer work in the photoelectric effect?

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Graduate How do I know if some objects represent the Lorentz Group?

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Graduate Complementarity in Physics and Biology

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Graduate New experimental proof of wave-function collapse?

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Graduate Legendre Transformation of Lagrangian density ?

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Graduate How Does Pilot Wave Theory Address Spontaneous Particle Transitions?

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Graduate Relation between phase space and path integral formulation?

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Graduate Arithmetic mean Fermi Dirac & Bose Einstein

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Graduate Compton effect and photoelectric effect

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Graduate Converting Bohr magneton units from SI to MeV/Gauss

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Graduate Triplets/Singlets and applying lowering S operator

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Graduate Average values of operators of potential and kinetic energy

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Graduate Norm of a vector related to coherent states

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Graduate Lagrange and Hamiltonian formulations

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Graduate Efficiency of CNOT Gates in Quantum Circuit Design

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Graduate Understanding E/t uncertainty and ##\vec{L}## uncertainty

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Graduate Black body re-emission of incident radiation

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Graduate How do I write taylor expansion as exponential function?

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Graduate Heisenberg's Microscope Derive Exactly Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Construction of free energy using Landau theory

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Graduate Why are quarks fundamental particles?

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Graduate Bound and unbound states in a finite square well

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Graduate Can entangled particles communicate across a black hole event horizon?

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Graduate Does Holographic Theory Support the Idea of a Subjective Reality?

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Graduate How can Schrödinger's Cat be both alive and dead?

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Graduate Condensed matter problem with Feynman integral

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Graduate When will antibosons be generated?

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Graduate Is Every Physics Equation a Field?

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Graduate Superconductivity in the Presence of a Magnetic Field

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Graduate Wavelength of matter wave at v=0

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Graduate Angular Momentum commutation relationships

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Graduate Closure relation in infinite dimensions

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Graduate Attempts to explain quantum entaglement

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