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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

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Undergrad Are atomic orbitals electron standing waves?

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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

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Graduate Qubits and angular momentum-like operators

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Graduate Under what circumstances does the wave function collapse?

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Undergrad Confusion about electron energy levels

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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations: Origins Explored

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Graduate What does a spin 1/2 wave function actually look like

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Graduate (help) physician wants to focus on quantum biology

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Graduate Blackbody Radiation: QFT-Book Analysis

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Graduate Quantum imaging with undetected photons

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Graduate Renormalization and scale dependence

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Graduate Is psi-function really a cloud of probability?

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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

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Quantum physics doesen't say that our thoughts manifest in reality

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Graduate How Did Paul Dirac's E=mc² Lead to the Discovery of Antimatter?

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Graduate Are composite particles, like atoms, identical bosons/fermions?

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Graduate Sniping slits in double slit experiment?

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Graduate Positron to replace proton as the nucleus of an atom

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Graduate Radial polarization and optical vortex

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Graduate Comparing Gauge and Higgs Fields

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Graduate Quantum state: Reality or mere probability?

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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

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Graduate Polarization of a photon how do we know?

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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

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Graduate Spin/angular magnetism Bohr magneton quantum thing

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Graduate What Is Psi in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Identical particles and Feynman diagrams

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Graduate Gauge Invariance in QM: P_y - Conserved or Not?

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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?

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Graduate Is |psi|^2 Really Just a Probability Density in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Why is entanglement necessary for understanding quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Wave packet with increasing time

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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Graduate To what extent can one bring classical equations to quantum mechanics

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Graduate Quantization & Discontinuity in Physics: Possible?

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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?

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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

  • Angelus
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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

  • onurbeyaz
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Graduate Origin of infrared divergences in perturbation theory

  • geoduck
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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?

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Graduate What is the gauge boson for magnetism and its relation to electricity?

  • jaydnul
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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?

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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

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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?

  • 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

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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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