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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

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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

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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

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Graduate Pilot wave models and "no cross" rule

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Graduate Why does tracing out help in averaging over unobserved degrees of freedom?

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Graduate Formula of Heisenberg Uncertainty

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Graduate Stimulated Emission: De-exciting Electrons with Photons

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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

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Graduate Determining bound states for delta function potential

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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?

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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

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

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Graduate Help to understand the state notation

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Graduate Schrödinger Equation in the classical limit

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Graduate Quarkonium: General Information

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Graduate Wavelength uncertainity for particle in a box

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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

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Graduate That Heisenberg Uncertainity Principle

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Graduate Quantum Measurement Problem: Nature of Matter or Nature of Probability?

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Graduate Schrødinger equation deriving diff equation

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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 The Wave-Particle Duality of light and the laws of reflection

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

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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 QM and Determinism: Can We Predict the Future?

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Graduate Help with solving for <f |H f >

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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?

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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?

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Graduate Watching Electrons: Experiments in Feynman's Lectures

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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

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

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Graduate When can you apply Ehrenfest's theorem?

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Graduate Mathematical description of Hilbertspace

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Graduate The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field

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Graduate What Makes Single Photon Quantum Electrodynamics So Complex?

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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 Spinors: Relativistic vs Non-Relativistic?

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Graduate Concerning spherical Bessel and Neumann functions

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Graduate Solutions for ammonia as two-state system

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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 Ground State and Excited State Wave Function - Explained

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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 Measurement Theory - Quantum Mechanics Q&A by VVS

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Graduate Can the Schrödinger Equation be Extended to Four Dimensions?

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Graduate Negative kinetic energy value for an electron

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Graduate Can 3 photons bunch, Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect?

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Graduate Creation of matter and energy out of nothing.

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Graduate How Does the Big Bang Contribute to Matter Creation?

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Undergrad How did Paul Dirac find the equation for antimatter?

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Graduate What's the problem with bremsstrahlung?

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Graduate Axiomatization of quantum mechanics and physics in general ?

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Graduate Commuting operators and Direct product spaces

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity: Explaining the Singularity

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Graduate Is There a Connection Between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness?

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Graduate Weak measurement with post selection

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Graduate Numerically solutions with periodic boundary conditions

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Graduate Problem interpreting course notes - 3D wave equation

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