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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 Are particle waves from de Broglie waves, wave functions, or fermionic fields?

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Graduate Computing SAB overlap of two Kohn-Sham determinants

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Graduate Does Busch's proof generalize Gleason's theorem to effects?

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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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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?

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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 How do quantum fluctuations originate?

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

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Graduate Physicist seeking prerequisites for studying 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

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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 Dirac's energy equation led to 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 How do gauge fields differ from the Higgs field?

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Graduate Does the PBR theorem prove quantum states are real?

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Graduate What is the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Quantum weirdness in everyday life

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Graduate Simplifying Operator and Dirac Algebra for Kets

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Graduate Modeling CO2 Laser as a 4-Level Laser

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Graduate Are normalization constants of wave equation time dependent?

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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?

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Graduate What are virtual particles and why do they have large implications?

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Graduate Is there a blue-anti blue gluon?

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Undergrad Walking sinusoidal as you follow a RF Standing Wave?

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Graduate Photon Momentum varies along waveform?

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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?

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Graduate Innsbruck Bell test raw data timing and coincidence matching

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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 Why discrete space and time are incompatible with relativity

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Graduate Mathematical model for current vs. strain in 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

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Graduate Trying to understand quantum mechanics

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Graduate Different forms of Schrodinger equation

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Graduate Why did the OPERA experiment fail to show FTL neutrinos?

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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 Is quantization compatible with discontinuity in physics?

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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 Why doesn't final observation at the back screen affect the double slit pattern?

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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 How do you determine the number of protons and neutrons in an element?

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Graduate Why do alpha rays tear out neutrons from beryllium but not gold?

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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 Quantum mechanics books for self-study before taking a course

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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 What makes an outcome random if coin flips tend toward 50-50?

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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 Energy release when H atoms form NH2 molecule

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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 When does spontaneous emission create a coherent superposition of states?

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