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Graduate Absorption and Re-emission of light in an atom

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Graduate Will 2 newly formed wave-packets be entangled?

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Graduate Is the given 1-D potential an example of a bound state?

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Graduate How to Handle Expectation Value of 1/(1+x) in Quantum Mechanics?

  • blue_leaf77
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Graduate Superposition of spherical harmonics

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Graduate Understanding Inner Product in Infinite Dimensional Bases

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Graduate Solution to the 1D Free Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Information paradox, dismissed?

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Graduate Gaussian Integral with Denominator in QFT

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Graduate High energy electron in very deep potential well

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Graduate Does consciousness cause Wave-Function collapse?

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Graduate About anti bunching and bunching

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Graduate Readings for a general understanding of Quantum Field Theor?

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Graduate Rotation operators on Bloch sphere

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Graduate How Does Quantum Mechanics Influence Voltage in Rotating Magnetic Fields?

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Graduate Static field from ensemble of photons

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Graduate What is the Slater determinant of a singlet or a triplet?

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Graduate Transmission through semiconductor heterojunction

  • John Loven
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Graduate Question regarding wave/particle duality

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Graduate Question regarding spin and magnetic field

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Graduate Philosophy of the Uncertainty Principle

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Graduate Improved energy-momentum tensor changing dilation operator

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics is a set of Laws

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Graduate Proof that the set of stationary states are orthonormal?

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Undergrad Photoelectric current: why does it decrease?

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Graduate Entanglement and Bell’s inequality Question

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Graduate Does Commutativity Always Guarantee Shared Eigenkets?

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Graduate Understanding Spectral Line Width and Causes | Optical Wavelengths

  • nickek
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Graduate Momentum operator eigenstates/eigenvalues

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Undergrad Accuracy of Classical Mechanics

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Graduate Question about double slit and entanglement

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Undergrad What is an Extinction Spectrum? Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles

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Graduate How do you get the color singlet combination of quarks?

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Graduate Calculating measurement probabilities for the CHSH game

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High School Why Do 3D Shapes Appear as Ripples on a Pond?

  • Danyon
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Graduate Applicability of perturbation theory

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Graduate A question on calculating entangled spin probability

  • rede96
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Graduate The Mathematical Structure of QM and the Stern Gerlach

  • Ahmad Kishki
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Graduate Preparing Quantum Systems: Understanding State Preparation and Its Importance

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Really Support Time Reversibility?

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Graduate Prerequisites for Quantum Field Theory (QFT)

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Graduate General form for 2 x 2 unitary matrices

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Graduate What do the color maps in spherical harmonics represent?

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Graduate Understanding Scattering Length in Atom Interaction: A Comprehensive Guide

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Graduate Expectation Value of Operator A: c or Complex Conjugate?

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Undergrad First photograph of light as both a particle and wave

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Math of environment-particle entanglement

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Graduate How to entangle nearly 3000 atoms using a single photon

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Graduate From observable to operators in QFT

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Graduate Spectrum broadening and conservation of energy?

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Graduate Classical Limit of a Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

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Graduate Is a Coherent Buckyball Immune to Gravity?

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Graduate Expectation for many-body system

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Graduate Ground state of hamonic oscilator

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Graduate Non-separability : basis dependent

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Graduate How Do Superposition Preparations Differ for Single vs. Entangled States?

  • Edward Wij
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Graduate Non changing variables in wave function.

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Graduate Time dependence in quantum theory

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Graduate How to draw self-energy diagrams in phi^4 theory

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Graduate Building a Mach–Zehnder interferometer

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Graduate Can Bell's Ansatz Explain the Correlation in the EPRB Experiment?

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle of a high speed particle

  • Misha Kuznetsov
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Graduate Quantum Foam and Conservation of Energy

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Graduate Einstein's later thoughts on EPR

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Graduate Confused about eigenstates, uncertainties,expectation values

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Graduate How to control the refractive index?

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Graduate What happens to an electron's quantum state after measurement?

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Graduate Can there ever be a Theory of Everything?

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Graduate How does uncertainty apply to an electron's magnetic moment measurement?

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Graduate Measurements of a superposition: Conservation laws?

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Graduate Does Spontaneous Emission Affect Entropy Levels?

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and Moviment

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Graduate Are Quantum Leaps instantaneous?

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Graduate Non-local uncertainty - does it make sense?

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Graduate Understanding Electron Spin: Clarifying Misconceptions

  • bland
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Graduate Does "Entropy" play a role in Quantum Physics?

  • Fernando Freire
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Graduate Graph sol. of Dirac eq., type "graph paper" needed?

  • Spinnor
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Graduate Dirac and Majorana spinors for neutrinos

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Graduate Wave/Particle duality in Blackhole paradox?

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Graduate Relations between workfunction, ionization, redox and fermi

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Graduate Violation of Newtons third Law and conservation of momentum

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Graduate Can Superposition of Charges Be Observed Simultaneously in Quantum Mechanics?

  • lucas_
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Graduate Frequency oscillations and Planck's constant

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Graduate What Is the Significance of Hans Euler's Work on Light Scattering?

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Graduate Relativistic correction of Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Quick question about experiments done on spin detection

  • rede96
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Graduate Wave Function: Real vs Imaginary Part

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Graduate Coherence in spontaneous radiation processes

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Graduate A doubt on the meaning of the bra ket product

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Graduate Clarification about stationary quantum states of a system

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Graduate Quantum state of system before measurement

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Graduate What is the electron's mean momentum?

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Graduate Measuring properties of entangled photons

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Graduate E=hf as energy of a particle (other than photon)

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Graduate Where Does the Equation for Normalization and Expectation Come From?

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Graduate Is the Kronecker delta linear?

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Graduate Particle in a box - Momentum and Energy

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Graduate Can the Feynman Path Integral Account for Two Non-Interacting Particles?

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High School About light, photon mass and E=mc^2

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