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Graduate Particle Spin - how to cause change to direction
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Graduate Why Quantization? Elucidating Wave Nature of Particles
- abhilash.s
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Undergrad Are atomic orbitals electron standing waves?
- abhilash.s
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Undergrad Relation of radiation wavelength and photosynthetic photon flux?
- Farah
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Undergrad Electron Orbitals: Determining Energy Differences Between Orbitals
- radaballer
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Graduate Qubits and angular momentum-like operators
- lfqm
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Graduate Under what circumstances does the wave function collapse?
- jaydnul
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Undergrad Confusion about electron energy levels
- Yashbhatt
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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations: Origins Explored
- Mayank_Jha
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Graduate What does a spin 1/2 wave function actually look like
- jelathome
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Graduate (help) physician wants to focus on quantum biology
- robertojgg
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation: QFT-Book Analysis
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Graduate Quantum imaging with undetected photons
- microsansfil
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Graduate Renormalization and scale dependence
- TrickyDicky
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Graduate Is psi-function really a cloud of probability?
- altsci2
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Graduate How is total angular momentum conserved in particle physics?
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Graduate Distance between equilibrium and nonequilibrium states
- Billy Yang
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Graduate Dynamical Variables As Operators
- Bashyboy
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Quantum physics doesen't say that our thoughts manifest in reality
- batmanandjoker
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Graduate How Did Paul Dirac's E=mc² Lead to the Discovery of Antimatter?
- Quarlep
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Graduate Are composite particles, like atoms, identical bosons/fermions?
- atat1tata
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Graduate Sniping slits in double slit experiment?
- Jabbu
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Graduate Positron to replace proton as the nucleus of an atom
- jaydnul
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Graduate Radial polarization and optical vortex
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Graduate Comparing Gauge and Higgs Fields
- J'onn J'onzz
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Graduate Quantum state: Reality or mere probability?
- Demystifier
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Graduate What is the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics?
- Demystifier
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Graduate Quantum weirdness in everyday life
- Demystifier
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Graduate Simplifying Operator and Dirac Algebra for Kets
- MikeBuonasera
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Graduate Modeling CO2 Laser as a 4-Level Laser
- chimay
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Graduate Are normalization constants of wave equation time dependent?
- singularity93
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Graduate Spin, linear momentum and orbital angular momentum
- ad6190
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Graduate Polarization of a photon how do we know?
- Johan0001
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Undergrad What causes stimulated emission to occur in quantum mechanics?
- Yosty22
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Graduate What are virtual particles and why do they have large implications?
- JohnPrior3
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Graduate Is there a blue-anti blue gluon?
- saif gaber
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Undergrad Walking sinusoidal as you follow a RF Standing Wave?
- jmatejka
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Graduate Photon Momentum varies along waveform?
- jmatejka
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Physics Identities
- kennalj65
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Graduate Spin/angular magnetism Bohr magneton quantum thing
- STEMucator
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Graduate What Is Psi in Quantum Mechanics?
- quawa99
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Graduate Identical particles and Feynman diagrams
- taishizhiqiu
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Graduate Gauge Invariance in QM: P_y - Conserved or Not?
- taishizhiqiu
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Graduate How an electromagnetic amplitude becomes QM probability?
- luisgui
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Graduate Analyzing Innsbruck Bell experiment raw data sample
- Jabbu
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Graduate Are Particles or Fields More Fundamental in Quantum Mechanics?
- atyy
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Graduate Is |psi|^2 Really Just a Probability Density in Quantum Mechanics?
- fluidistic
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Graduate Why is entanglement necessary for understanding quantum mechanics?
- Johan0001
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Graduate Wave packet with increasing time
- mcheung4
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Graduate Understanding the Incompatibility of Discrete Space and Time with Relativity
- bobie
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Graduate Need help modelling Quantum Tunnelling Composites
- willfarquhar96
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Graduate Does energy level determine degeneracy in 3D systems?
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Graduate Question on angular momentum of triplet and singlet wavefunctions
- The_Foetus
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Graduate Solving Schwartz QFT Eqn 5.26 to Get Eqn 5.27
- merrypark3
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Graduate Trying to understand quantum mechanics
- HAMJOOP
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Graduate Different forms of Schrodinger equation
- QMechanic
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Graduate FTL Neutrinos: Investigating the Failure of the OPERA Experiment
- drphysica
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Graduate What sub-field of quantum information should I focus on for my research?
- PaulDirac
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Graduate To what extent can one bring classical equations to quantum mechanics
- taishizhiqiu
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Graduate Quantization & Discontinuity in Physics: Possible?
- D.R.U
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Graduate Background in waves required for quantum mechanics
- QMechanic
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Undergrad Electron energy states and photon emission?
- Jabbu
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Graduate Hamiltonian Operator: Difference vs. E?
- physicsfirzen
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment - Question about states of observations.
- Hoogley
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Graduate Stationary States in Griffiths Intro to QM
- mcheung4
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Graduate Double slit experiment with multiple sources of particles
- Angelus
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Graduate Are PVMs more fundamental than POVMs from the view of decoherence?
- atyy
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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?
- onurbeyaz
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Graduate Alpha Ray Interactions with Au and Be: Unraveling the Neutron Tear Out Mystery
- onurbeyaz
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Graduate Origin of infrared divergences in perturbation theory
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Graduate "Physical system" in quantum mechanics ?
- microsansfil
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Undergrad What Are the Best Books for Beginners in Quantum Mechanics?
- EverGreen1231
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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
- Quarlep
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High School Alpha Rays and the Movement of Atoms' Nucleus
- onurbeyaz
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Graduate Understanding Randomness: Differences in Classical Physics, SR, GR, and QM
- Jabbu
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Graduate Electron Positron Annihilation
- Rob Hoff
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Graduate Question about the Quantum Zeno Effect
- Gerinski
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Graduate Spin Direction for Massless Particles
- LarryS
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Graduate Erwin Schrödinger Ghost Particles & Energy of Molecules & Atoms?
- starrlordd
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Graduate Position-momentum commutation relation
- jety89
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Graduate Does the wf entangle everything in the neighborhood?
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Graduate Shifting of the wall problem II
- tom.stoer
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Graduate "Asking photons where they've been" -- the DFBV experiment
- RUTA
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Graduate What makes a superposition of states a coherent superposition?
- vtahmoorian
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Graduate Is There Absolute Proof of the Casimir Effect and Inflation Theories?
- spacecadet11
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Graduate Quantum eraser thought experiment?
- Johan0001
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Graduate Quantum Bayesianism: Resolving the Interpretation Problem of Quantum Mechanics
- microsansfil
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Graduate Spontaneous generated coherence
- vtahmoorian
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Graduate Naimark extension for continuous variables
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Graduate Bell's theorem and local realism
- TrickyDicky
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Graduate The Frothy Space-Time Quantum Foam What is beyond the Foam?
- starrlordd
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Graduate What is the explanation for the strange behavior of matter at a quantum level?
- samgrace
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Undergrad Adding Two Spins to Vector Quantities
- Quarlep
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Graduate Renormalization of the non-linear [itex]\sigma[/itex] model
- synoe
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Graduate Z factor in renormalization disappeared?
- geoduck
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Graduate Need help regarding transition dipole moment
- semc
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Graduate Commutator of function of operators
- kini.Amith
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Graduate How Does Quantum Entanglement Work in Physics?
- QuantumPhys
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