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Graduate Group and Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Understanding Faithful Measurement in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad How to overcome the drawback of rutherford's model?

  • Hardik Batra
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Graduate What is the significance of Bell's Inequality Theorem in quantum mechanics?

  • name123
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Graduate Double Slit Experiments with Electrons

  • Marceli
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Graduate Question about spin operators and eigenvalues

  • space-time
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Graduate Physical meaning of the Feynman slash

  • FredMadison
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Graduate How Does the Momentum Operator Act in the Matrix Element <pm|p|pn>?

  • nigelscott
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Graduate Quantum Computing with Zero Spin Atoms?

  • testingus
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Graduate Thinking about the Schrodinger wave equation

  • Ahmad Kishki
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Graduate Qubits, 2 complex numbers, forcing one to real

  • Elroy
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Graduate How Does the Two Slit Experiment Illustrate Quantum Duality?

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Graduate Why does photoelectric emission not depend on intensity?

  • PWiz
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Graduate Time-dep Hamiltonian commute with time evolution?

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Graduate Modern Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory Texts for Beginners

  • pellman
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Graduate Meaning of Commutation Relation

  • A Dhingra
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Graduate Wigner-Eckart theorem in Stark effect

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Graduate What Is the Difference Between SDD and Stuttgart Pseudopotential?

  • hiltac
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Graduate Renormalization question in phi^4 theory

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Graduate Creating radiowave entangled photons

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Graduate Equivalence of waveparticle duality to uncertainty principle

  • Ahmed Abdullah
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Graduate Polarization of an emitted photon

  • naima
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Graduate Realism in QM: Existing Before Measurement?

  • Nick V
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Graduate Mathematical Explanation of One partice in two place

  • Quarlep
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Graduate Finite and infinite unitary transformation

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Graduate Creating a Laser with Different Types of Radiance

  • hiltac
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Graduate Counterterms in saddle point expansion

  • geoduck
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Graduate Momentum operator eigenfunction

  • blue_leaf77
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Graduate ? connection between uncertainty and wave-particle duality

  • Steve H
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Graduate Field Quantization: Raising & Lowering Operators

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Graduate How do physicists know wave function extends to infinity?

  • Nick V
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Graduate Calculate Quantum Mechanics: The Way

  • mac_alleb
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Graduate Understanding the Path Integral Formulation in Feynman's Theory

  • Quarlep
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Graduate Confusion over quantum mechanics operators

  • Ahmad Kishki
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Graduate Question re: photon interference

  • sanpkl
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Graduate Psi Epistemicism & the Reality of Particles & Atoms

  • Nick V
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Graduate Feynman rules - where do the imaginary numbers come from?

  • guest1234
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Graduate A festive analogy for interpreting quantum mechanics

  • Paulibus
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Graduate Coherence in density matrix formalism

  • HJ Farnsworth
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Graduate Derivations for Schrodinger's equations for potential step

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Graduate Bjorken Drell derivation - Lorentz transformation

  • Maybe_Memorie
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Undergrad How do electrons orbit the nucleus?

  • Nick V
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Graduate Could electron scatter off vacuum fluctuations?

  • asya
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Graduate Kinetic energy in quantum mechanics

  • Ahmad Kishki
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Graduate Is the wavefunction/quantum_state in electron interference experiments real?

  • forkosh
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High School Are Physical Waves Real Objects?

  • Nick V
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Graduate Incompleteness of Bell's Theorems

  • JPBenowitz
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Graduate Does anyone know what Pilot wave theory is?

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Graduate Particles that are traveling towards the past

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Graduate Quick question on notation of the Hamiltonian

  • rwooduk
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Graduate What does Weinberg–Witten theorem want to express?

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Graduate Is Kaluza-Klein Theory Relevant to Quantum Mechanics and Non-Locality?

  • Marceli
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Graduate How do we know uncertainty principal isnt ignorance?

  • acesuv
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics documentaries

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Graduate What Inspired Planck's Quantum Breakthrough in Black-Body Radiation?

  • Mikeal
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Undergrad How does magnetic interactions happen in proximity?

  • 1832vin
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Graduate Is this EM field *due* to charged particle or external?

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Graduate What is trivial and non-trivial gate in computing?

  • Callaghan
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Undergrad Linear operator and linear vector space?

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Graduate Continuous set of eigenvalues in matrix representation?

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Graduate The Path Inetgral and Classical Lagrange

  • Quarlep
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Just Got Less Complicated - Really?

  • bhobba
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Graduate Nuclear Spin and Selection Rules

  • Tainty
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Graduate Computation of propagation amplitudes for KG field

  • Theage
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Graduate Understanding Stable Particles: Neutrons, Electrons, Photons, and Neutrinos

  • Garrulo
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Graduate How can a wave have a continuously changing trajectory?

  • JonathanCollins
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Graduate 50th anniversary of Bell's theorem

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Graduate Dual Nature of Photon (and such particles) - WHY?

  • Abishek
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Graduate Can Bob & Alice disagree on QM description of experiment?

  • bahamagreen
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Graduate Two-fold question about wave function

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Graduate Qubit Math: Partitioning Phi into BetaA and BetaB

  • Elroy
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Graduate Why is Energy Conservation Not Guaranteed?

  • Ahmad Kishki
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Undergrad Alain Aspect's Experiment Explained: Beginner's Guide

  • tim1608
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Undergrad Planck's law (wavelength, frequency, angle?)

  • Lamdbaenergy
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Graduate Where does the 'i' come from in QFT path integral?

  • nuclearhead
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Graduate Are Uncertainty Principles Found in Classical Mechanics?

  • Johan0001
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Graduate Limited probabilities : a nonsense ?

  • jk22
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Graduate How can I sort photons by spin?

  • jartsa
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Graduate What is the dimension of the state vector?

  • Xiaomin Chu
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Graduate Is it possible that Higgs is a force carrier?

  • Bruce Wallman
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Graduate Gauge invariance/Lorentz invariance of regulator in QED

  • WannabeNewton
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Graduate Can a Quantum Field Be Defined by a Finite or Infinite Set of Points in 3D?

  • Duhoc
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Graduate Magnetic moment from neutral particles in QFT

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Derivation of Wiens Displacement & Distribution Laws from Thermodynamics

  • koustav
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Graduate Someone me understanding the quantum mechanics

  • Chemer
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Graduate Photon Characteristics: Experiencing and Observing

  • Johan0001
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Graduate Schrödinger's time-dependent equation (general)

  • Paradox101
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Graduate Why the space is isotropic in the vector particle's decay?

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Graduate What is the potential field of an ion near the Bohr radius?

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Graduate Dirac Equation computational complexity

  • Astudious
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Graduate Is the Hamiltonian for Klein Gordon fields Hermitian?

  • nuclearhead
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Graduate Fock State: A Picture from Physical Point of View

  • KFC
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Graduate How is the presence of a *single* electron determined?

  • JonathanCollins
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Graduate Law of the minimization of mystery

  • testingus
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Graduate Decoherence relationship to the measurement problem

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Graduate The basic math of quantum mechanics

  • kindlin
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Graduate Question on peskin and schroeder

  • HomogenousCow
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Graduate Does the Lagrangian of a mattress in QFT make sense?

  • Aziza
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Graduate Communication with past and future?

  • Noaholter
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Graduate How to entangle two particles?

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