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Orthonormal Basis: Show A is Self-Adjoint
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What is the mathematical basis for understanding the wave property of particles?
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Caculating SAB overlap of two Kohn-Sham determinants
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Does Busch's Theorem Offer a Simplified Proof of Gleason's Theorem?
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How do polarisers let a photon through
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Double-Slit Experiment Variations List
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Particle Spin - how to cause change to direction
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Why Quantization? Elucidating Wave Nature of Particles
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Are atomic orbitals electron standing waves?
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Relation of radiation wavelength and photosynthetic photon flux?
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Electron Orbitals: Determining Energy Differences Between Orbitals
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Qubits and angular momentum-like operators
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Under what circumstances does the wave function collapse?
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Confusion about electron energy levels
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Quantum Fluctuations: Origins Explored
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What does a spin 1/2 wave function actually look like
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(help) physician wants to focus on quantum biology
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Blackbody Radiation: QFT-Book Analysis
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Quantum imaging with undetected photons
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Renormalization and scale dependence
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Is psi-function really a cloud of probability?
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How is total angular momentum conserved in particle physics?
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Distance between equilibrium and nonequilibrium states
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Dynamical Variables As Operators
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Quantum physics doesen't say that our thoughts manifest in reality
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How Did Paul Dirac's E=mc² Lead to the Discovery of Antimatter?
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Are composite particles, like atoms, identical bosons/fermions?
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Sniping slits in double slit experiment?
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Positron to replace proton as the nucleus of an atom
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Radial polarization and optical vortex
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Comparing Gauge and Higgs Fields
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Quantum state: Reality or mere probability?
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What is the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics?
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Quantum weirdness in everyday life
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Simplifying Operator and Dirac Algebra for Kets
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Modeling CO2 Laser as a 4-Level Laser
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Are normalization constants of wave equation time dependent?
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Spin, linear momentum and orbital angular momentum
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Polarization of a photon how do we know?
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What causes stimulated emission to occur in quantum mechanics?
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What are virtual particles and why do they have large implications?
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Is there a blue-anti blue gluon?
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Walking sinusoidal as you follow a RF Standing Wave?
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Photon Momentum varies along waveform?
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Understanding Quantum Physics Identities
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Spin/angular magnetism Bohr magneton quantum thing
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What Is Psi in Quantum Mechanics?
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Identical particles and Feynman diagrams
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Gauge Invariance in QM: P_y - Conserved or Not?
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How an electromagnetic amplitude becomes QM probability?
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Analyzing Innsbruck Bell experiment raw data sample
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Are Particles or Fields More Fundamental in Quantum Mechanics?
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Is |psi|^2 Really Just a Probability Density in Quantum Mechanics?
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Why is entanglement necessary for understanding quantum mechanics?
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Wave packet with increasing time
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Understanding the Incompatibility of Discrete Space and Time with Relativity
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Need help modelling Quantum Tunnelling Composites
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Does energy level determine degeneracy in 3D systems?
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Question on angular momentum of triplet and singlet wavefunctions
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Solving Schwartz QFT Eqn 5.26 to Get Eqn 5.27
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Trying to understand quantum mechanics
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Different forms of Schrodinger equation
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FTL Neutrinos: Investigating the Failure of the OPERA Experiment
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What sub-field of quantum information should I focus on for my research?
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To what extent can one bring classical equations to quantum mechanics
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Quantization & Discontinuity in Physics: Possible?
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Background in waves required for quantum mechanics
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Electron energy states and photon emission?
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Hamiltonian Operator: Difference vs. E?
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Double Slit Experiment - Question about states of observations.
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Stationary States in Griffiths Intro to QM
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Double slit experiment with multiple sources of particles
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Are PVMs more fundamental than POVMs from the view of decoherence?
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Do photons bounce into each other?
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What experiment reveals the number of protons and neutrons in an element?
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Alpha Ray Interactions with Au and Be: Unraveling the Neutron Tear Out Mystery
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Origin of infrared divergences in perturbation theory
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"Physical system" in quantum mechanics ?
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What Are the Best Books for Beginners in Quantum Mechanics?
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What is the gauge boson for magnetism and its relation to electricity?
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Hesienberg Uncertanity Principle
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Alpha Rays and the Movement of Atoms' Nucleus
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Electron Positron Annihilation
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Question about the Quantum Zeno Effect
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Spin Direction for Massless Particles
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Erwin Schrödinger Ghost Particles & Energy of Molecules & Atoms?
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Position-momentum commutation relation
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Does the wf entangle everything in the neighborhood?
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Shifting of the wall problem II
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"Asking photons where they've been" -- the DFBV experiment
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What makes a superposition of states a coherent superposition?
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Quantum eraser thought experiment?
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Quantum Bayesianism: Resolving the Interpretation Problem of Quantum Mechanics
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Spontaneous generated coherence
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Naimark extension for continuous variables
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Bell's theorem and local realism
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The Frothy Space-Time Quantum Foam What is beyond the Foam?
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What is the explanation for the strange behavior of matter at a quantum level?
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Adding Two Spins to Vector Quantities
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Renormalization of the non-linear [itex]\sigma[/itex] model
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