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Graduate Wave Vector Collapse: Solving the Math Puzzle of Position and Momentum Operators
- A Dhingra
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Graduate Derivation of standard model lagrangian
- resurgance2001
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Graduate Measured result is equal to expectation value
- BUI TUAN KHAI
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Graduate How to visualize a moving probability wave?
- jimmylegss
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Graduate What is responsible for force in the standard model?
- ftr
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Graduate A question about QM "Observer effect"
- silvercats
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Graduate Technical steps in the quantum entanglement experiments
- sanpkl
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Graduate Indirectly measure if particle spin is in superstate or not?
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Graduate Grand canonical and canonical ensemble
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Graduate About the photon exchange and the electromagnetic force
- tonyxon22
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Graduate Calculating energy from de Broglie wavelength
- Alephu5
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Graduate Quote from Feynman and Hibbs book
- exmarine
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Graduate Hypothesis: Can a photon be predicted where it will hit?
- Arthurz11
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Graduate Why do different wave equations have varying numbers of derivatives?
- DiracPool
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Graduate Quantum Cat: Is the Wave Collapsed if Box Isn't Opened?
- bland
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Graduate Basic commutator of angular momentum
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Graduate Time evolution of a state. (a missing t)
- naima
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Graduate Can massless states be used to build massive ones?
- Spinnor
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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillator tunneling puzzle
- arkajad
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Graduate How do you get from equation (2) to (3) in quantum mechanics?
- resurgance2001
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Graduate How directional is a single photon?
- intervoxel
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Graduate Can we accurately measure the momentum of a particle?
- kini.Amith
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Graduate Why is the smallest energy transfer in quantum measurement uncontrollable?
- gianeshwar
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Graduate Does a neutron star act like a big particle?
- John Kierein
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Graduate About the Uncertainty Principle
- tonyxon22
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Undergrad What is the relationship between atomic structure and molecular orbital theory?
- akashpandey
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Probablities
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Graduate Negative Probability and Bell's Theorem
- Jilang
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Graduate Is Spin Related to Angular Momentum in Elementary Particles?
- Ahmad Kishki
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Graduate Is Manipulating the Stefan-Boltzmann Law with Metamaterials Possible?
- gildomar
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Graduate Special relativity violation using entanglement
- Idoubt
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Graduate Entanglement: Speed more than light
- shakila
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Undergrad What photon or electron detector is used in double slit experiments?
- JakeGard740
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Graduate Uncertainty principle presentation
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Graduate How to Count Wick Contractions in Phi^3 Theory?
- Dixanadu
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Graduate Units of Fourier expanded field
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Graduate Raising operator for s in |s,m> states
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Graduate How does quantum mechanics explain the stability of macroobjects?
- smoothoperator
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Graduate Unintended observations, how do we do with it?
- sweet springs
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Three Spin Observables
- Robben
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Graduate Maxwells theory about electromagnetism
- akashpandey
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Graduate Do low atomic numbers not obey Moseley's law?
- mukul
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Graduate Mass dimension of coupling constant -- always an integer?
- guest1234
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Graduate It is said that we can not go lower than the planck limit
- Molari
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Graduate Entanglement and Spin in Electron Interactions
- anorlunda
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Graduate Vector representation of a Quantum State
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Undergrad Understanding Bragg's Law: The Relationship Between Wavelength & Atomic Order
- MintyPanda
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Graduate Time independent schrödinger equation query
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Graduate Expectation value of operator derivation
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Graduate Formulation of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Is the Interaction in the Canonical Formalism Lorentz Invariant?
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Graduate Spins on electrons versus photons
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Graduate Mathematical state of Path Integral?
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Graduate Curiosity about the wavefunction
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Graduate Separation of variables to solve Schrodinger equation
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Graduate When does the photon splits in 2 on the Two Slit Experiment?
- Arthurz11
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Graduate Double Slit Question: Can We Know From Which Slit?
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Undergrad Understanding the 'Observer Effect' in Relation to Reality and Mental Health
- Rajkovic
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Graduate Is the collapse of the particle wave function?
- Nick V
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Graduate Photoelectric effect without photons
- ShayanJ
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Graduate Relabeling spin or angular momentum operators
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Graduate Why Can't Quantum Numbers Include Half Integers?
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Graduate How Can We Manipulate 8 Quantum Combinations with Qubit Computing?
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Graduate Scaling of an eigenvalue with the coupling constant
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Graduate The ground state e- is the largest negative value, but why?
- shangriphysics
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Graduate Generalized Dirac Equation for All Fermions?
- LarryS
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Graduate Uncertainty principle and relativity
- barefeet
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Graduate Hawking Radiation: The Role of Electromagnetism in Black Hole Evaporation
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Graduate Beginner to QM with some questions
- JasonWuzHear
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Graduate Light like interval in wave function
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Graduate Diffraction wavelength of particles in moving frames?
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Graduate What is the relation between wave function on a photon
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Graduate Direction of a photon is fixed upon creation or observation?
- James White
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Graduate Vacuum energy-fundamental particle
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Graduate Generating function for the zeta function of the Hamiltonian
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Graduate Connection between Pauli XYZ and spatial XYZ
- nomadreid
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Graduate The original postulates of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Probability of quantum tunneling?
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Graduate What are matrix elements in QFT?
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Graduate Energy Eigenstates inside a one-dimension box
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Graduate The Mysteries of Quantum Entanglement with Delayed Choice Question
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Graduate I'm having some trouble understanding bra-ket notation?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Exam Prep for PhDs
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Graduate What does the symbol sigma represent in electromagnetic calorimetry equations?
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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of a Hermitian Conjugate
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Graduate Momentum operator in curvilinear coordinates
- ShayanJ
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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Space Φ ⊂ H ⊂ Φ'
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Graduate Why two-state system = two-dimensional Hilbert space?
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Graduate How to find the energy level if a three state system
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Graduate On the huge hypothetical atom
- Sven Andersson
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Graduate Is the Quotient of Two Operators AB-1 or B-1A?
- wasi-uz-zaman
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Graduate Wave function for a potential barrier
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Graduate What makes expectation values real?
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Graduate What experiment demonstrates Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
- mycotheology
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Graduate System of 2 particles: why is the wavefunction a product?
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Graduate Spin wavefunction for 2 electrons
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Graduate Coefficients in wave function for potential step
- Nick O
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Graduate How Does the Parity Operator Affect Spin States?
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Graduate Solution to Schroedinger Equation for a huge hypothetical
- Sven Andersson
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Graduate Localization of states and elementary vs composite in QM
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