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Graduate Is Vacuum a Dynamic Entity with Hidden Matter and Energy?

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Graduate Quantum physics without probability?

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Graduate Singularities in the harmonic oscillator propagator

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Graduate What is the Connection Between Hawking Radiation and Dark Matter?

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Graduate Proving Orthogonality by Induction in Second Quantization for Bosonic Systems

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Graduate Density matrix formalism and Poincaré invariance

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Graduate QFT Corrections to Electron's g-Factor: Implications for Spin Symmetry

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Graduate Schrodinger equation with unknown potential function

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Graduate Quantum Measurement: Sharp vs Unsharp - How to Determine?

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Graduate Describing 3-component spin 1 with a 4-Vector

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics of charge-monopole system

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Graduate Regions containing different states in a simple field or substance

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Graduate Translating cumulative rotations into Pauli operators

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Graduate Triple-slit experiment with 2 identical sources

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Graduate Principal Values & Fourier Transforms in Quantum Physics

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Graduate 3DAnisotropic oscillator in Spherical Harmonic basis-States with L_z=0

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Graduate The finite size of the nucleon

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Graduate Wavefunction of quantzed field states

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Graduate Understanding Peskin Eq 3.50-3.53 and Dirac Spinor

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Graduate Question about the solutions of the dirac equation

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Graduate Particles as the quanta of fields

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Graduate Water molecule, bucket question

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Undergrad Could a maser be used to send information

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Graduate Derivation of Schwinger function in Di Francesco

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Graduate Implication of Hardy's ontological excess baggage theorem

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Graduate Free Physics Lectures: QM Lecture Notes & Linear Algebra

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Graduate Choosing topic for reserach and presentation

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Help: Annihilator & Creation Operators

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Graduate What Free Programs Exist for Simulating Multi-Particle Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Quantum Hall Effect: Hamiltonian & Finding Solutions

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Graduate C and h are not fundamental constants?

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Graduate What is a Condensate? An Introduction for Laymen

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Graduate Implications of an arbitrary phase for momentum operator

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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle question (again)

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Graduate Does Adding a Constant to the Hamiltonian Affect Quantum System Dynamics?

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Graduate Disconnect With Inequality Realism Assumption And Bells' Lambda

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Graduate Orbital angular momentum problem

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Graduate Why do multiparticle states present continuous in spectral function?

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Graduate Derivation of Planck's law and the shape of the cavity

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Graduate Methods of keeping photons entangled for extended periods?

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Graduate What kinds of divergences for a given interaction

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Graduate Eigenvalues and operators, step the involves switching and substitutin

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Graduate Quantum Trajectories: Bubble Chamber & Detector Meaning

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Graduate Is the Order of Bras and Kets Important in Equations?

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Undergrad Electron Transition & Photon Emission in Hydrogen Atom

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Graduate Best book reference for studying quantum physics

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Undergrad Where does the electron gain its energy from to keep orbiting?

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Graduate Quantum computation and entanglement

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Graduate Taking the zero entry of the following

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Undergrad Ultraviolet Catastrophe in simple language

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Graduate The wave function and the Shrodinger equation

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Undergrad Ideas for QM undergrad research project

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Graduate As unified electromagnetism derived c, what concepts were unified to h

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Graduate Hamilton's equation from heisenberg equation of motion

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High School Understanding Covalent Bonds: Why Do They Hold Molecules Together?

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High School What Is Beta Decay?

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Graduate Reasoning in Deriving the Ultraviolet Catastrophe

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Graduate Differentiating semi-classical Kubo trans. correlation functions wrt t

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Graduate Sum of spin for chiral particles?

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Graduate What is the significance of spinor technology in quantum field theory?

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Graduate Wavefunction real physical object?

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Graduate 1000 Basis functions limitation - Gaussian 09?

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Graduate Question on John Bell's Original Paper

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Graduate Use of Trotter Theorem in Path Integral Molecular Dynamics

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Graduate Dependence of operators on the wave function

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Graduate Advanced mathematics in theoretical physics

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Undergrad The triangle inequality in CHSH, where is the triangle?

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Graduate Help please, need advice on what to study to understand

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Graduate Photon entanglement: why three angles?

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Graduate Bell's Inequality Explanation for Intelligent Non-Scientist

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Graduate Squared operators and sums of operators in practice

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Graduate PBS Interferometer: Testing Polarization of Photons

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Graduate Is the Current Density Operator Related to Classical Magnetic Moment?

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Graduate Matrix for a Stern-Gerlach apparatus

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Graduate What is QED Theory and How Does It Explain Electric Charge Interactions?

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Graduate Lorentz transformation, quantum field theory

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Graduate How do virtual particles mediate?

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Graduate Question about Lorentz Invariance and Gamma Matrices

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Graduate Calculation of the Natural Linewidth

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Graduate Local hidden variables for double slit

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Graduate Unaccounted Electrons in Quantum Tunnelling Composites: What Happens to Them?

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Graduate Quantum computer revived by the influence of Google ?

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Graduate How would you explain Planck units to layman?

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Graduate Which of these Quantum mechanics video lectures(ocw) is good?

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Graduate Is this an example of a gauge theory? How?

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Undergrad Normalizing a wavefunction and probability help

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Graduate Dirac's Argument and Charge Quantization in Composite Particles

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Graduate Blackbody radiation over whole frequency spectrum

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Graduate What is the significance of a Quantum Top in Chaichian & Demichev's work?

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Graduate Two-point correlation function in path integral formulation

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Graduate Little group and photon polarizations

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High School Where would the highest concentration of electrons be located?

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Undergrad Why Doesn't an Electron Collapse into a Proton Despite Opposite Charges?

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Graduate If <p> = 0 how can we know the energy of the system

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Graduate Orthonormal Basis: Show A is Self-Adjoint

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Graduate What is the mathematical basis for understanding the wave property of particles?

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Graduate Caculating SAB overlap of two Kohn-Sham determinants

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Graduate Does Busch's Theorem Offer a Simplified Proof of Gleason's Theorem?

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Graduate How do polarisers let a photon through

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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment Variations List

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