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Graduate Wave Vector Collapse: Solving the Math Puzzle of Position and Momentum Operators

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Graduate Derivation of standard model lagrangian

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Graduate Measured result is equal to expectation value

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Graduate How to visualize a moving probability wave?

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Graduate What is responsible for force in the standard model?

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Graduate A question about QM "Observer effect"

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Graduate Technical steps in the quantum entanglement experiments

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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

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Graduate Calculating energy from de Broglie wavelength

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Graduate Quote from Feynman and Hibbs book

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Graduate Hypothesis: Can a photon be predicted where it will hit?

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Graduate Why do different wave equations have varying numbers of derivatives?

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Graduate Quantum Cat: Is the Wave Collapsed if Box Isn't Opened?

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Graduate Basic commutator of angular momentum

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Graduate Time evolution of a state. (a missing t)

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Graduate Can massless states be used to build massive ones?

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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillator tunneling puzzle

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Graduate How do you get from equation (2) to (3) in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate How directional is a single photon?

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Graduate Can we accurately measure the momentum of a particle?

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Graduate Why is the smallest energy transfer in quantum measurement uncontrollable?

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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

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Undergrad What is the relationship between atomic structure and molecular orbital theory?

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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

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Graduate Entanglement: Speed more than light

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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

  • sythrox
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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?

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Graduate Unintended observations, how do we do with it?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Three Spin Observables

  • Robben
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Graduate Maxwells theory about electromagnetism

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Graduate Do low atomic numbers not obey Moseley's law?

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Graduate Mass dimension of coupling constant -- always an integer?

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Graduate It is said that we can not go lower than the planck limit

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Graduate Entanglement and Spin in Electron Interactions

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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

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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?

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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?

  • Edward Wij
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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?

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Graduate Generalized Dirac Equation for All Fermions?

  • LarryS
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Graduate Uncertainty principle and relativity

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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

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Graduate The original postulates of quantum mechanics

  • kini.Amith
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Graduate Probability of quantum tunneling?

  • Dembara
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Graduate What are matrix elements in QFT?

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Graduate Energy Eigenstates inside a one-dimension box

  • Rick2015
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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

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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

  • Zachary Nichols
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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

  • Joy Prakash Das
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Graduate What makes expectation values real?

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Graduate What experiment demonstrates Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

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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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