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Undergrad How Does a Photon Interfere in an Experiment with Less Than One Photon?

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High School Device that detects if someone is looking at the device?

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Undergrad Instability of hydrogen ground state if the time-reversal operator is unitary

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High School Examples of less popular pairs of physical properties with uncertainty (HUP)

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Graduate Real vs complex spherical harmonics for hexagonal symmetry

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Undergrad Hossenfelder: Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser, Debunked?

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Undergrad Can Operators Have Multiple Partial Derivatives in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Fermi energy for a Fermion gas with a multiplicity function ##g_n##

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Undergrad Physical meaning of two independent, non-interacting parts

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Undergrad What do you need to establish that spin is conserved?

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Graduate Relativistically invariant 2-body phase space integral

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Undergrad Spin operator and spin quantum number give different values, why?

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Graduate What is the biggest problem to be solved in Quantum Physics in 2023?

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High School Bell inequality test without polarisation?

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Undergrad Questions about Grover's algorithm for quantum searches

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Graduate What is a spatial wavefunction in QFT?

  • George Wu
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Undergrad Average magnetic moment of atom in magnetic field ##B##

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Undergrad Quantum decoherence and the emergence of space/time and gravity

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Graduate Entanglement swapping with different measurement directions

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Undergrad Photoelectric effect: Saturation voltage

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Undergrad Is the Archimedes Experiment a groundbreaking test of the Casimir Effect?

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics as a Probabilistic forecast of reality

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Undergrad Generation of polarization-squeezed beams

  • James2018
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Graduate Do Time-ordering and Time Integrals commute? Peskin(4.22)(4.31)(4.44)

  • George Wu
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Undergrad Hidden phase in polarization tests of Bell's inequality?

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Undergrad Can intuitionist mathematics be compatible with special and general relativity?

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Undergrad Biphoton: Existence of layered or multiple entanglements

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Undergrad Understanding Scattered Radiation in Photon Beams

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Undergrad Why do these terms vanish when applying Euler-Lagrange to the Dirac Lagrangian?

  • JohnH
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Undergrad Showing that operators follow SU(2) algebra

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Undergrad Proportionality between electron mass and chirality flip frequency

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Undergrad The Potential of Back-to-Back Photons: an Experiment

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Undergrad Noise Proportional to Square Root of Illumination: Need Formula Help

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Undergrad Do black holes destroy quantum states?

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Graduate How can gauge fields be associated with real particles?

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Undergrad Quantum Entanglement and Parallel Worlds/Existence

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Undergrad Principles of Quantum Mechanics - Hans C. Ohanian - 0137127952

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Graduate Bound states of an electron trapped in a dipole field

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High School Entanglement inside a black hole

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Undergrad ##Tr([Q,P])## and Ballentine Problem 6.3

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High School Are Photons Real? New Study Challenges Assumptions

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High School What exactly is spin? Does the standard model work without spin?

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High School Quantum Computers and their special properties?

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Graduate Why Unitary Evolution? QM Justification Ideas

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Graduate Main Theorem of Renormalization, but in physicist-speak

  • AndreasC
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Undergrad Kallen-Lehmann representation in gauge theories

  • AndreasC
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Undergrad Dirac Notation for Operators: Ambiguity in Expectation Values?

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High School Do excited electrons move further from the nucleus?

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Undergrad Ways of measuring open quantum systems

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Graduate Can entanglement be detected in a single Bell pair?

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Undergrad Necessity of the field viewpoint

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Undergrad Noether currents for a complex scalar field and a Fermion field

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Undergrad How to add time variation to a Schrodinger operator?

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Undergrad Propagator of massless Weyl field

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Graduate How to measure the two-photon detuning in 3-level system?

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Undergrad Translating the harmonic oscillator

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High School How can hybridization and quantum entanglement coexist?

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Undergrad Finding Eigenvectors of 2-state system

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Graduate Numerical method to Lippman-Schwinger equation

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High School Atom energy band formation and electron allotment

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Undergrad Rewriting of Gibbs Free Energy in Peksin (Equations 13.35/13.36)

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Undergrad Classic 'Double-Slit' Experiment Using Time Instead of Space

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High School Quantum entanglement and simultaneity

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High School Is it possible to measure both position and momentum simultaneously?

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Undergrad Does a particle's mass fluctuate.

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Undergrad Symmetry and two electron wave function

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Graduate Wave-packet in configuration space

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Graduate What’s the meaning of decay rate in optical Bloch equations?

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Graduate Relation between the density matrix and the annihilation operator

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Undergrad Fourier Transform of Photon Emission Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Identity involving exponential of operators

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Undergrad Superposition of different spins

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Undergrad Why is there an additional prefactor in equation (12.52) of Peskin's QFT book?

  • thatboi
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Undergrad Where is the mass of a particle located?

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Undergrad Weakly interacting electrons in an atom

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Undergrad Black Hole Information path described in new article

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Undergrad Non-Commutation Property and its Relation to the Real World

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High School Quantum entanglement and hidden variables

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High School What do these wavenumbers correspond to in Raman spectroscopy?

  • Lotto
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Undergrad Ballentine Equation 5.13 on conservation of momentum

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Graduate Von Neumann's uniqueness theorem (CCR representations)

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Does an electron have a quantum phase frequency?

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Undergrad Prefactor in Canonical Quantization of Scalar Field

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Undergrad Momentum eigenfunctions in an infinite well

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Undergrad Potential energy of spin anti-alignment

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High School Does anything happen in the quantum world?

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Graduate Quantum analog of Boltzmann entropy?

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High School How to show that particle spin includes angular momentum?

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Graduate Momentum operator -- Why do we use the plane wave solution?

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Undergrad QED Renormalization Counterterm Confusion

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High School What are the energy eigenvalues of a harmonic oscillator?

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Undergrad Interaction of EM radiation with Glass

  • Jimmy87
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Undergrad Mach-Zehnder interferometer, but with an entangled beam?

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Undergrad What is the relation between the Dirac equation and QED?

  • thaiqi
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Undergrad What happens when circular polarization meets a diagonal polarizer?

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Undergrad Repeated measurements on a quantum system interacting with other quantum systems

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Graduate How to derive Quantum Mechanics in curved physical space?

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High School Is a Spin 2 Particle the Key to Understanding Gravitation in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Multiparticle Relativistic Quantum Mechanics in an external potential

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Undergrad Can Quantum Effects Prevent Reaching Absolute Zero?

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