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Graduate What Are the Most Accurate Theories in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Understanding Traceless Proof for Gamma Matrices

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Graduate Stationary States vs General Solution

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Graduate Could the double slit experiment detect parallel dimensions?

  • Martyn Adams
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Undergrad Characteristic Spectrum and the K-alpha line

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Graduate The Quantum Computer and beamsplitter

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Graduate Deriving speed of light from QED

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Graduate Does entanglement survive if one particle falls into a black hole?

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Graduate Expectation Value vs Probability Density

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Graduate Adjoint of Schrodinger Equation

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Graduate Why Can Electrons Tunnel Through Barriers in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Hopf Algebras in Quantum Groups

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Graduate Has the double-slit experiment been conducted with multiple observers?

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Graduate Interaction between light and hydrogen atom

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Graduate What is the difference between H and E in the equation Hψ = Eψ?

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Graduate Is Haag's Theorem Relevant for Solving QFT Problems?

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Graduate Missing h-bar in showing SHO in terms of ANHIL and CREA operators is correct

  • rwooduk
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Graduate On the Wave-Particle Duality property of light

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Graduate Coordinate space matrix elements <x|H|x'>. what are these?

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Graduate Why Does the Hopping Term in the Hubbard Model Project to Zero at Half-Filling?

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Graduate Probability of finding a particle [concept behind it]

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Graduate Requirement of Separability of Hilbert Space

  • Kushagra Nigam
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Graduate Calculating Fourier Transform in Circular Wells

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle mechanics

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Graduate Solutions of schrodinger equation contradicts HUP

  • Maharshi Roy
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Graduate Pilot wave models and "no cross" rule

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Graduate Why does the partial trace give the reduced density matrix?

  • naima
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Graduate Formula of Heisenberg Uncertainty

  • songoku
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Graduate Stimulated Emission: De-exciting Electrons with Photons

  • Shailesh Pincha
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Graduate Smoothness of potential energy and powers of momentum

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Graduate Probability of Photoelectric Effect Occuring in the Context of Medical Imaging

  • WoahWoah
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Graduate Determining bound states for delta function potential

  • Logan Rudd
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Graduate Change of Basis For Pauli Matrix From Z Diagonal to X Diagonal Basis

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Graduate Quantum vs. Classical Mechanic graphing

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Graduate Does the wave function really collapse into a state?

  • Erland
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Graduate Dirac gammology - dimension of the algebra

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Graduate Determinism in Coin Tosses: Does It Mean We Have Free Will?

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Graduate Meaning of Single Photon Interference Minima

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Graduate QM questions: MO theory orbital combination

  • kayan
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Graduate What are the Bound States for a Sum of Two Negative Delta-Function Potentials?

  • Logan Rudd
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Graduate What does the double ket notation mean in entangled states?

  • KFC
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Graduate Schrödinger Equation in the classical limit

  • Erland
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Graduate Quarkonium: General Information

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Graduate Wavelength uncertainity for particle in a box

  • Maharshi Roy
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Graduate Can an electron stand in the same place as a proton?

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Graduate Phase of Orbital/Wavefunctions in Hydrogen 2px

  • Mark S 2014
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Graduate That Heisenberg Uncertainity Principle

  • PeterPeter
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Graduate Does the double-slit experiment reveal nature of probability rather than matter?

  • Michael McShane
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Graduate Schrødinger equation deriving diff equation

  • fisher garry
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Graduate Understanding Device Identification of Non-Orthogonal Quantum States

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Graduate Identifying Projection Operators: Is Idempotence Enough?

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Undergrad What is the physical unit of teleport?

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Graduate Commutator problem (position, momentum)

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Graduate How does wave-particle duality explain photon reflection?

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Graduate If you have three things in a bra ket what does it mean?

  • rwooduk
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Graduate High energies during wave function "collapse"?

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Graduate Why does photons of a given frequency satisfy the Boltzmann distribution?

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Graduate Operators on infinite-dimensional Hilbert space

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Graduate What Is the Minimum Volume of Phase Space?

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Graduate Wave-particle duality at Macro scale?

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Graduate Does quantum mechanics allow determinism if we know all prior states?

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Graduate Computing expectation value of Hamiltonian for two-level system

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Graduate Unit Circle and Quantum Predictions [hidden variable model agrees with QM?]

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Undergrad Double bonds and energy level

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Graduate Neumark dilation and entanglement

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Undergrad Does the intrepretation affect the measurement?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate How does QED explain charge interaction in the macro world?

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Graduate Spin difference between entangled and non-entangled

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Undergrad Is the Energy Change in a Bohr Atom Always Equal to One Photon?

  • Vishera
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Graduate Watching Electrons: Experiments in Feynman's Lectures

  • Philip Van Hoof
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Graduate Beam splitting experiment with single photon

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Graduate Dirac delta function identities

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Graduate Seeking opinion of others on quantum systems control and estimation theory

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Graduate Concerning spherical potential wells

  • moriheru
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Graduate Absorption of a photon by atom - where does the energy go?

  • wotanub
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Graduate When can you apply Ehrenfest's theorem?

  • Logan Rudd
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Graduate Mathematical description of Hilbertspace

  • moriheru
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Graduate The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field

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Graduate How can a single photon remain a single photon in QED?

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate TDSWE: Deriving Time Dependent Solutions from TISWE

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Graduate Green Function SHO - Reading Materials & Math Background

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Graduate Plane wave expansion of massive vector boson

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Graduate Are non-relativistic and relativistic spinors mathematically identical?

  • LarryS
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Graduate Concerning spherical Bessel and Neumann functions

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Graduate Ammonia two-state system with arbitrary a and b coefficients

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Graduate Can You Solve These Commutation Integrals?

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Graduate QFT renormalization and Haag's theorem

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Graduate Quantum Vacuum Plasma Drive Potentially Confirmed by NASA

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Graduate How do wave functions differ between ground and excited states?

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Graduate Wave Function from ground to excited

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Graduate Infinitely large quantum number

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Graduate What is the precise mathematical claim in Haag's theorem?

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Graduate What Is the Probability Density of a Non-Wave Electron in a Box?

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Graduate Physics of Quantum Entanglement

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Graduate Derivation of the CHSH inequality

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Graduate I have difficulty understanding quantum physics

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Graduate Quantum entanglement, is it real?

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Graduate How would I transmit 1 photon?

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Graduate Wavefunction normalization vs 1/√(|x| )

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Graduate Question about measurement theory in Ballentine chapter 9

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