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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Quantization & Discontinuity in Physics: Possible?
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Graduate Background in waves required for quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Electron energy states and photon emission?
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Graduate Hamiltonian Operator: Difference vs. E?
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment - Question about states of observations.
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Graduate Stationary States in Griffiths Intro to QM
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Graduate Double slit experiment with multiple sources of particles
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Graduate Are PVMs more fundamental than POVMs from the view of decoherence?
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Graduate Do photons bounce into each other?
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High School What experiment reveals the number of protons and neutrons in an element?
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Graduate Alpha Ray Interactions with Au and Be: Unraveling the Neutron Tear Out Mystery
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Graduate Origin of infrared divergences in perturbation theory
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Graduate "Physical system" in quantum mechanics ?
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Undergrad What Are the Best Books for Beginners in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the gauge boson for magnetism and its relation to electricity?
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Graduate Hesienberg Uncertanity Principle
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High School Alpha Rays and the Movement of Atoms' Nucleus
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Graduate Understanding Randomness: Differences in Classical Physics, SR, GR, and QM
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Graduate Electron Positron Annihilation
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Graduate Question about the Quantum Zeno Effect
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Graduate Spin Direction for Massless Particles
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Graduate Erwin Schrödinger Ghost Particles & Energy of Molecules & Atoms?
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Graduate Position-momentum commutation relation
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Graduate Does the wf entangle everything in the neighborhood?
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Graduate Shifting of the wall problem II
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Graduate "Asking photons where they've been" -- the DFBV experiment
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Graduate What makes a superposition of states a coherent superposition?
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Graduate Is There Absolute Proof of the Casimir Effect and Inflation Theories?
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Graduate Quantum eraser thought experiment?
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Graduate Quantum Bayesianism: Resolving the Interpretation Problem of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Spontaneous generated coherence
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Graduate Naimark extension for continuous variables
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Graduate Bell's theorem and local realism
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Graduate The Frothy Space-Time Quantum Foam What is beyond the Foam?
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Graduate What is the explanation for the strange behavior of matter at a quantum level?
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Undergrad Adding Two Spins to Vector Quantities
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Graduate Renormalization of the non-linear [itex]\sigma[/itex] model
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Graduate Z factor in renormalization disappeared?
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Graduate Need help regarding transition dipole moment
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Graduate Commutator of function of operators
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Graduate How Does Quantum Entanglement Work in Physics?
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Graduate There is only one electron in the universe
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Graduate Position Eigenstates: Measurement & Imperfect Performance
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Graduate Are shell electrons accompanied by virtual neutrinos?
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Graduate What is the solution to the shifting of the wall problem in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Momentum and energy eigenvalues
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Graduate Scattering Within Rectangular Waveguide With A Step Obstacle
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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations and Big Bang
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Graduate What happens with non orthogonal eigenvectors
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Graduate How to Solve the Dirac Equation for a Two-Particle System?
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Graduate Momentum cutoff equivalent to discretizing space?
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Graduate The Double Slit Experiemts & Half Silver Mirror Question?
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Graduate A few conceptual questions on time evolution of quantum states
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Graduate Susskind about QM - Reversed Time - Experiment?
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Graduate Application of the Fokker-Planck equation
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Graduate Is SU(2) the key to understanding quantum numbers and symmetry?
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Graduate Eigenfunctions corresponding to a particular energy value
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Graduate Spin precession vs alignment in magnetic field
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Undergrad Does Energy Determine the Spread of Matter in Space?
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Graduate Quadrupole Decay Rate E2 Angular Dependence
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Graduate Are Photons Capable of Traveling Faster Than Light?
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Graduate (A bit for fun) Putting a Human in Superposition
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Graduate Hermite representation for integrals?
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Graduate Complete positivity and quantum dynamics
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Graduate Spin-Orbit Interaction - Meaning and Some Mathematics
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Undergrad Is There an Optimal Resonant Frequency for Light Oscillations?
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Graduate Entanglement and physical spacelike connection
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Graduate What is wave of photon? oscillation of something in space?
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Graduate Some questions about commutation relation
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Graduate Zeeman Effect, Angular Momentum States, Dipole vs No Dipole.
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Graduate Intro Quantum Mechanics: Neils Bohr Model Explained
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Graduate Waveform of Photons: Current Thinking & Analysis
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Graduate Atomic excitation via photon absorption
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Graduate Why Doesn't the Electromagnetic Force Boson Have a Charge?
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Graduate Relation between QED photon frequency and classical EM frequency
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Graduate Dirac on Spreading Wave Packets
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Graduate What happens to infinitesimal time in path integral
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Graduate Can We Control the Higgs Boson and Its Mechanism for Mass?
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Graduate The state of two identical bosons
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Graduate Explaining Spin-Orbit Coupling: Energy Levels & Sub-Levels
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Undergrad Stern-gerlach with hydrogen atoms
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Graduate Nick Bostrom's Simulation Hypothesis
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Graduate How to interpret rotational, electronic, vibrational energy levels
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Undergrad Atomic Number & Orbital Energy: Explained
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Undergrad Electrons in s-robital shielding outer electrons
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Graduate How Can I Write an Operator in the Coupled and Uncoupled Basis?
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Graduate Confused about wavefunctions and kets
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Graduate NASA's New Space Engine: SRF Resonating Cavities
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Graduate The physical world cannot be a single history
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Undergrad Electron shells in atoms: WHY do they exist as they do?
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Graduate What is the experimental basis for Einstein's conclusion on the Helium atom?
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Graduate Is There an Error in the Third Dirac Current Equation?
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Graduate Observer vs Natural phenomenon
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Undergrad Electron orbital velocity in hydrogen atom?
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Graduate Can a two-qubit state be proven to be non-entangled using contraposition?
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Graduate Any ideas on this hypothesis concerning the universe?
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Graduate Simplifying expression with gamma matrix and slashes
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Graduate Understanding the Born Rule for Continuous Particle Position Measurement"
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Graduate Which type of wave does de Broglie's theory suggest for matter?
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Graduate Question about Energy Interactions.
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