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Graduate Schrödinger's time-dependent equation (general)

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

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

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Graduate Dirac Equation computational complexity

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Graduate Is the Hamiltonian for Klein Gordon fields Hermitian?

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Graduate Fock State: A Picture from Physical Point of View

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

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Graduate Law of the minimization of mystery

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Graduate Decoherence relationship to the measurement problem

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Graduate The basic math of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Question on peskin and schroeder

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

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Graduate Communication with past and future?

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Graduate How to entangle two particles?

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Graduate Is the commutator of two operators always a scalar?

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Graduate Radio waves from an antenna using the propagator?

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Graduate Orthogonality of eigenstates and hermitian statement

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Graduate Can a Massless Photon create Mass?

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Graduate Does the double slit experiment suggest the universe is a simulation?

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Graduate What Is a Bell's Inequality Experiment with Entangled Photons?

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Graduate Do E and B Commute in Magnetic Field Expressions?

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Graduate What is the purpose of the analogies and equations used in the QM TV program?

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Graduate Hawking radiation temperature -- observer dependent?

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Graduate Why don't we get thrusted(pierced) inside solid floor.

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Graduate Velocity of Phase Wave in Vacuum - Contradicting Relativity?

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Graduate Is there any learning group for QFT?

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Graduate Why does the Bell inequality give 1/4 in quantum mechanics but 1/3 classically?

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Graduate Are these quantum states equivalent in Hilbert space representation?

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Graduate Scale invaraince of renormalisation theory

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Graduate Should we describe protons and electrons in dar Matter in a different way?

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Graduate Does Measuring Two Entangled Photons at the Same Time Break the Laws of Physics?

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Graduate Charge dependence of operators in QED renormalization

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Graduate Calculating Particle-Antiparticle Rates in Vacuum Space w/ QT

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Graduate When is an electron in a superposition?

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Graduate Conservation of Energy with non-allowed states

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Graduate Can electron wavefunctions have measurable phase like photon fields?

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Graduate Pauli-villars regularization in simple phi^4 case

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Undergrad Problem about application of E = hv to white light

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Graduate How measurement in the double slit experiment affects result

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Graduate History of wave/particle duality

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Graduate Transition Moments and Selection Rules

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Graduate What is the current status of quantum darwinism ?

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Graduate General Uncertainty Relation -- Why drop anticommutator?

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Graduate What is the Ising model and what conclusions were made from it?

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Graduate Systems with more than 1 wave function

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Graduate How many Feynman diagrams do I draw?

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Graduate Implications of the quantum pigeonhole paradox for correlations

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Graduate Can future measurement techniques overcome Heisenberg uncertainty?

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Graduate What Happens to the Original Qubit's State After Moving It?

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Graduate Longitudinal polarization in Feynman photon propagator?

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Graduate Quantization of EM field in dielectric?

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Graduate How do wavenumber and position eigenstates relate in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What Are Dirac Electrons and Their Role in Solid-State Physics?

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Graduate Why does infinite potential well give rise to standing wave?

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Graduate Can gravitational waves exhibit quantum superpositions?

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Graduate The impossibility of FTL information

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Graduate Quantum teleportation in the news

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Graduate Experimental Quantum Mechanics Texts?

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Graduate Someone know Bogoliubov spectrum?

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Graduate Proving [itex][a_k^\dagger, a_q^\dagger]=0[/itex]

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Graduate New Quantum Foundations Journal

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Graduate Heisenberg Picture Formalism: Rewriting Operators in Covariance

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Graduate How do we get from quantum mechanics to statistical mechanics?

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Graduate Can hermitian operators move past complex conjugates outside inner products?

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Graduate Taking the Fourier Transform of a potential

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Graduate QFT & QM: Spinors, NRQM & Dirac Field Explained

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Undergrad How does wave particle dulity work?

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Graduate Electron in 1D Box: classical or quantum at different temps

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Graduate Are Galaxies Beyond Our Visible Universe in Quantum Superposition?

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Graduate Quantum Chaos, Level spacing distr. in integrable system

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Dirac's QM - First Edition 1930 - 2 pages needed

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Graduate Ising model, Hiblert space, Hamiltonian

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Graduate Concept and theories of Quantum Physics

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High School What is a wave, phase, phase velocity and group velocity?

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Graduate Time Energy Uncertainty Question

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Graduate Variation on Quantum cross covariance and CHSH

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Graduate Did I understand the double slit experiment correctly?

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Graduate Fusion Due to Gravitation in Bosonic Atoms

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Graduate Final step in deriving Casimir effect force from energy density

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Graduate Is Decoherence a Continuous Process?

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Graduate Hawking Radiation and Entanglement

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Graduate Hydrogen Atom orbital and quantum number

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Graduate Does an infalling object spread across the event horizon in Alice's frame?

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Graduate Black Body Molecular Absorption

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Graduate Integration limits when potential is finite versus infinite

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Graduate A stronger ψ-ontology theorem rules out ψ-epistemic models

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Graduate Can Energy Equal Mass if c=1 in Particle Physics?

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Graduate Exchange symmetry and addition of angular momentum

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Graduate Photodissociation of Diatomic Molecules

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Graduate Sudden perturbation, particle in a box, ground state

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Graduate QM prediction violating Bell’s inequality

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Graduate Spin parity and attractive/repulsive forces

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Graduate Determine if System State is Pure or Mixed?

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Graduate Normalization of ground state "1/2hw"

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Graduate Light speed and uncertanty principle

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Graduate Observing Particles: Is Consciousness the Factor?

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Graduate Deriving creation operator from annihilation operator

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Graduate A good quntum mechanics book to review before grad school

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Graduate Method for deduce Schrödinger Equation

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