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Graduate Unitarity and locality on patgh integrals

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Graduate Schrödinger's cat explain color charge?

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Undergrad Bell's inequality for non-physicists

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Graduate Is Adding a Phase to the Wavefunction in Quantum Mechanics a Wrong Assumption?

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Graduate Is Everything Connected by Quantum Entanglement?

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Graduate Question regarding time independent perturbation theory

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Graduate Cooling and (or?) heating ion trap experiments

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Graduate Direct Product of Two Spin-Up Vectors: What Is It?

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Graduate Confusion About Quantum Uncertainty

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Graduate What is the polarization of a virtual photon

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Graduate How to devise an experiment that violates uncertainty principle

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Graduate Quantum Leap: Electrons and Instant Movement

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Graduate Passing a black hole from double slit experiment setup

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Graduate Large n-pt functions renormalized by small n-pt functions?

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Graduate Can Quantum Decoherence Math Explain Color Charge States of Quarks?

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Undergrad Very curious integral (overlap integral)

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Graduate Can Microwaving Chocolate Really Measure the Speed of Light?

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Undergrad Debunking Quantum Woo: A Lay Person's Guide

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Graduate Wave function with a certain wavelength

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Graduate Help to 2-point correlation function in $ \phi^{4} $-theory

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Graduate Preparing a spin state and measurements

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics in 1+1 spacetime

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Graduate Could multiple dimensions explain quantum leap?

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Graduate John Wheeler & QM: Unpacking His Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Davisson-Germer experiment and Bragg's law

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Graduate Can Different Dielectric Values Affect the Distribution of the Casimir Force?

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Graduate Nonrelativistic free particle propagators

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Undergrad Books on quantum computing, qbits

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Graduate What does it mean by wave nature of matter?

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Graduate What is the difference classical pixel and quantum pixel?

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Graduate Angular momentum operator justification

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Undergrad Calculate Complex Conjugate of Ψ(x,t) for x=4, t=9

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Graduate Non-locality versus Action-at-a-distance

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Graduate Hard Drive that uses quantum state

  • Edward Wij
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Graduate Is Charge Conserved in Electromagnetic Interactions Between Particles?

  • Clear Mind
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Graduate Understanding the Parity-Flipping Nature of the Momentum Operator

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Graduate Why does field Lagrangian depend on four-derivative?

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Graduate Vac fluct e+/e- field correlated because charge conservation

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Graduate Tracking states of randomness with three states

  • Zachary Nichols
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Graduate How is Degeneracy Resolved by Building a CSCO?

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Graduate Does a particle really try every possible path?

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Undergrad Can One Object Exist in Multiple Places Simultaneously?

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Undergrad What shapes do d orbital represent?

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Graduate Dimensional analysis and coupling constant

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High School Why the orbitals can contain maximum of 2 electrons?

  • Raghav Gupta
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Graduate How do you mathematically describe wave function overlap?

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Graduate Question with respect to a Max Planck article

  • Phillip
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Graduate Perturbing Hamiltonian optical absorption in semiconductors

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Graduate Quick questions regarding BRA KET notation

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Graduate How Does Particle Proximity Affect Transition Probability to the Singlet State?

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Graduate What are the Complementary Parameters in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Observations one at a time is this a valid illustration?

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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser

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Graduate Matter Waves and Electromagnetic Waves

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Graduate Find the time dependent wave function

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Graduate Is anyone here familiar with the dynamical Casimir effect?

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High School The speed of light in a medium

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Graduate Light and atom interaction hamiltonian

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Graduate How can I animate quantum tunneling using Python and pseudocode?

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Graduate Where does the 1/√N factor in the Dicke model arise from?

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Graduate Derivation of momentum operator

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Graduate Roger Penrose: Objective Reduction & Nonlocal Collapse

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Graduate More questions about Lorentz representation

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Graduate Movement of a wave packet of a free particle

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Graduate Does measurement necessarily change the state?

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Graduate Is it possible to distinguish between pure and mixed states?

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Graduate Independence of Complex Fields?

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Undergrad The double slit experiment the same old

  • Ott Rovgeisha
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Graduate Not quite clear in application of fourier series

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Graduate Probability integral, Expectation Value and Square of Psi

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Graduate Commutation of squared angular momentum operators

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Graduate Quantum interference and superposition

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Graduate Path integral and discontinuous paths

  • Xiaomin Chu
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Graduate Probability amplitudes & light / particle wavelengths

  • Nick.
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Graduate Understanding the Bohr Model and Electron Decay

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Graduate Probability Postulate in Relativistic QM?

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High School Do Photons Have Mass Despite General Relativity?

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Graduate Applying Bell's Theorem to Non-Photonic Entanglement

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Graduate Boundary Conditions for Hydrogen Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate All electronic component works on quantum probability

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Graduate Slow Light: Spatially Structured Photons Travel Slower Than Speed of Light

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Graduate Understanding Pointer States and Decoherence: A Quantum Perspective

  • Edward Wij
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Graduate How can the Schrodinger equation be applied to a 3D rectangular box?

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Graduate Wavefunctions that don't satisfy Schrödinger equation

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Graduate Solve 3D Dirac Equation: Simple Example

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Graduate On the relation between quantum and statistical mechanics

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Graduate Proof of "Entropy of preparation" in Von Neumann entropy

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Graduate Interaction picture equation from Heisenberg equation

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Graduate Interested in learning quantum theory

  • Jaco Viri
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Graduate Can entangled particles communicate through time?

  • Jim White
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Graduate Progress on Explaining Bell's Inequality

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Graduate Density functional theory and partial charge transfer

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Graduate Entanglement, why are the spins decided on observation?

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Graduate Are observables like position emergent properties?

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Graduate Understanding virtual particles

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Graduate Momentum conservation, the double slit and Heisenberg

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Graduate Notation on energy level for atoms

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Graduate Is the concept of wave-particle duality outdated in modern quantum theory?

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Graduate How are units of measure defined in Quantum Mechanics?

  • Stephen Tashi
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Graduate Massless complex field+assumption(s)=massive field. Doable?

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