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Graduate Why use Gray codes to implement two-level unitary operations

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Graduate How does EPR rule out predetermined opposite spins in entangled particles?

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Graduate Deriving Massive spin 2 propagator from polarization vectors

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Graduate Gauge Freedom Quantum Electrodynamics

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Graduate Can virtual particles become real particles in experiments?

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Graduate David Tong: Lectures on Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Construction of the path integral

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Graduate When are quantum corrections significant for EM?

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Graduate Is it Possible to Transmit Classical Information with Quantum Network Flow?

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Graduate How to directly calculate the polarizability

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Graduate Energy of a particle near a potential well

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Graduate Nuclear Spin and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Undergrad What does this quote from Einstein mean?

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Graduate Creation and annihilation as measuring processes?

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Graduate Touching at atomic and macro scale

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Graduate Is there a connection between EPR and crossing symmetry in Feynman diagrams?

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Graduate Uncertainty of position in an infinite potential well

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Graduate Quantum Physics: The Reaction of a Photon Passing Through a Slit in a Plate

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Graduate Quantum fluctuations at radio frequencies

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High School Is the Net Charge of a Hydrogen Atom the Same in Excited State vs Ground State?

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Graduate Is the Mass of an Electron Arbitrary in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Implications of Bell's theorem (Laloe paper)

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Graduate Apparent 'stillness' of macroscopic systems

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Undergrad What is the charge of an electron and the nature of stopping potential?

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Graduate Relation between electricity and magnetism?

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Graduate Quantum fluctuations at critical point

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Graduate Selection rules in electric dipole appoximation

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Graduate How Do Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Determine a Quantum Density Operator?

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Graduate Is Matter Wave Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light?

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Graduate Proof of Cauchy-Schwarty Inequality

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Graduate Strength of Dirac Delta Potential

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Graduate Electron recoil due to photon emission

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Graduate Spin angular momentum operator queries

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Graduate Does frustrated total internal reflection allow superluminal signaling?

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Graduate Basic Linear Alegbra for Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate What happens when you vary slit shapes and spacing in double slit experiments?

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Graduate Noether's theoem and conserved current arbitrariness

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Graduate Huh? Condensates can exchange particles without effect?

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Graduate Solving the Schödinger equation - R.Shankar's PQM, mistake?

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Graduate What causes spontaneous emission from an excited state?

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Undergrad Why photons don't interact with the Higg's field

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Graduate Is the quantum world truly random?

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Graduate The "Intelligence" behind quantum physics

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Graduate Gauge Transformation Quantum Electrodynamics

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Graduate Can you answer this virtual photon paradox?

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Graduate Is Quantum Superposition Dependent on the Observer?

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Graduate Logical explanation for quantization

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Graduate Representations on Hilbert space

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Graduate Are translation operators related to raising and lowering operators?

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Graduate Why do scars corresponding to classical orbits appear in the wavefunction?

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Graduate Why does <n|a†a|n> equal C² not <n+1|DC|n-1>?

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Graduate Double-slit experiment: videos of detecting which slit

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Graduate V - A weak interaction theory?

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Graduate What happens at energy-gaps, Kronig-Penney model

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Graduate Mass problem or something of a sort (E=mc^2)

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Graduate Bogoliubov coefficients for Minkowski and Rindler modes using KG inner product

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Graduate Dirac Wave Function: Schrodinger Equation Coupling

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Graduate Quantum Bose Einstein effects on a macro scale?

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Graduate Introduction to superconducting quantum circuits

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Graduate Why does the path integral use multiple integrals to sum over paths?

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Graduate Visualising the Conjugate Transposition of a Vector

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Graduate Effects of Hamiltonian Preferred Basis on Decoherence

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Graduate Definition Radial distribution function

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Graduate Quantum Superposition: Causes, Effects and More

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Graduate Entanglement, Measurements, and Interactions

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Graduate Explain delayed choice quantum eraser without consciousness

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Graduate Why is the integrated information of a Bell state = 0?

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Graduate Can Wien's Law be derived without using Planck's formula?

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Graduate Can we determine momentum and position from particle trajectory photographs?

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Graduate A concept of time with the future as an emergent property

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Graduate If there are three electrons associated together then how

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Graduate Mass in eV over speed of light

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Graduate How Are Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Related in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Entangled particle through double slit

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Graduate Splitting Gamma-Ray Photons: Is It Possible?

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Graduate Quantized Spacetime and Zeno's Paradox: A Solution to the Arrow Paradox?

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Graduate If electrons are fundamental particles then why do they -

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Graduate Harmonic oscillator in Heisenberg picture

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Graduate Why the photoelectric absorption section finite at threshold

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Graduate Geometric measure of entanglement for fermions or bosons?

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Graduate How is quantum interference achieved with atoms fired from opposite directions?

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Graduate A brief question on quantum thermodinamics.

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Graduate Why does the trace of [x,p] equal zero but the trace of iℏ doesn't?

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Graduate How can we explain continuous absorption / emission?

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Graduate Casimir Effect and Calculate Energy Density of it

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Graduate Is Quantum Teleportation Possible Through Electron-Positron Annihilation?

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Graduate How would observation of the state of qubits affect them?

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Graduate Operators for measuring superposition component distinctnes?

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Graduate How Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Limit Electron Spin Directions?

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Graduate Double slit experiment and Interaction

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Graduate Is the Holographic Universe Theory a Valid Concept?

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Graduate Why doesn't orbital angular momentum operator L commute with scalar operator S?

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Graduate Quantum entanglement can be used for achieve FLT

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Graduate What is the Physical Meaning of the Hartree-Fock Approximation?

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Graduate Using Quantum Entanglement to know the future?

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Graduate Difference Between Two Thoughts on Wave Function Collapse?

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Graduate Dirac Equation and Pauli Matrices

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Graduate How do proton spin and nuclear interactions affect binding energy?

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Graduate Quantum states as normal vectors

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