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Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Undergrad Do AB and BA always exist in matrix multiplication?
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Graduate Differentiation between massless Bosons
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Graduate Negative Energy in Quantum Mechanics: Can Particles Exist?
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Graduate Stern-Gerlach Experiment (spatial consistency of the magnetic moment)
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Graduate Do wavefunctions always need to be normalised?
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Graduate Positrons are electrons traveling backward in time?
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Graduate Point in Space: Classical Math & Recent Physics
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Graduate History and origin of amplitude summation in QFT
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Graduate Quantum vacuum in proximity of matter
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Graduate Can an electron be in more than two places at once?
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Graduate Separation of the centre of mass motion
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Graduate Relation between the spinor and wave function formalisms
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Graduate No drama quantum electrodynamics? (was: Local realism ruled out?)
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Graduate What is <x_1-x_2> for two particles in a 1-D harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Correlation functions and Ward identities
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Graduate Brainfarting reading Griffiths QM (small step in solving Hydrogen atom
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Graduate Non-dimensionalization of Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Basic question about equations of Quantum field theory (QFT)
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Undergrad Radioactive Decay Experiment Ideas | Shielding Variables
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Graduate How Does a Magnetic Field Influence Positronium States?
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Graduate Measurement Problem & Objectivity
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Graduate Remotely changing superconductor levitation height
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Graduate Is Dirac's Definition of the Quantum Poisson Bracket Logical?
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Graduate Best books for computational quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Exam-information math.-qm.-phys
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Graduate Eigenvectors of this Hamiltonian
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Graduate The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?
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Graduate Fourier analysis and continuous spectra
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Graduate Can I delete a thread on Lef In Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Massless Fermions: Physics & Existence
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Graduate Understanding Wave Functions: Definition, Equations, and Applications
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Graduate How Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Derived?
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Graduate What is the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Time-Ordered Definition & Summary: What Is It?
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Graduate What is a quantum harmonic oscillator
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Graduate How Do Neutrino Oscillations Reveal the Nature of Neutrinos?
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Graduate How Does the Feynman Propagator Define Particle Movement in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What Is the Expansion Postulate in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the Definition and Mathematical Explanation of Density of States?
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Graduate What is the significance of matrix elements of vectors in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What is Characteristic Length?
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Graduate Quantum Physics: Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate A Little Question On Identical Particles
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Graduate Separable Hilbert space's postulate
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Graduate What is the INNER QUANTUM number ?
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Graduate Observing Particle Annihilation: How Anti-Particles Affect Universe Formation
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Graduate Can single photons be made coherent through entanglement and manipulation?
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Graduate Perturbation Theory - First Order Approximation
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Graduate DeBroglie equation applied to atoms & molecules: not so obvious
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Graduate Hawking Radiation Explained: How Particles Escape from Black Holes
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Graduate Given Electro-Weak force why state four forces.
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Graduate Entanglement, ftl communication and destruction of the entangled state
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Graduate DTQE idler photons fall into a Black Hole- interference at d0?
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Graduate Can a single photon create an interference pattern in a double slit experiment?
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Graduate NEW Proof that parity operator is hermitean
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Graduate How composite particles have definite spin?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Explains Refraction of Light Through Glass
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Graduate Wave particle duailty, boundry between classic and the quantum world
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Graduate Decoherence and Wave Function Collapse
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Graduate L=0, L=1ħ, 2ħ, 3ħ Suborbital Configuration
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Graduate Does Observation Affect Photon Behavior in the Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate How do atoms repel each other?
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Graduate Total angular momentum operators
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Graduate Hidden Variables and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Silicon droplets and double slit, in 3D?
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Graduate Make an operator to be hermitian
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Graduate Normalization of wavefunctions
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Graduate Should you just "shut up and calculate"?
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Graduate How Do L=0 Coaxial Suborbital Paths Align with the Standard Model?
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Graduate Why is spin number half integer, especially +1/2,-1/2 for electrons?
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Graduate Attempted simulation of Hong-Ou-Mandel effect
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Graduate Can one photon interfere with another photon?
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Graduate Application of Schrodinger equation to SHO
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Graduate Photon Emission: Purcell's Textbook Presentation
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Graduate Can lattice deformation preserve DOS and simplify calculations?
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Graduate Metals and Conductivity question
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Graduate Young's Slits and "one-at-a-time" photons
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Graduate Polarization and Bell measurments
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Graduate How to Handle Integration Bounds in Quantum Pendulum Problems?
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Graduate Quantum Decoherence & RNR Experiment Explained
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Graduate Is Choice of Spinor Representation a Gauge Symmetry?
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Graduate Measurement Possibilities: The Role of Efficiency and Distance in Bell's Theorem
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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty due to interaction of the inherent reality?
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Graduate Question about collapsing wave functions
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Graduate Amplitude to go from a location to another
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Undergrad What Are Quarks? Existence & Properties
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Graduate Particle on a ring with perturbation
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Graduate Complex wavefunctions and electromagnetic waves
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Graduate Why isn't Manyworlds obviously correct?
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Graduate Those Pictures (Representations) in QM and the density equations
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Graduate Ignoring SSB in massless phi^4 theory
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Graduate Is QM necessary for single observable parameters?
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Graduate Wavefunction Collapse: Ideas & Scenario Analysis
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Graduate Would there be any use in a Rydberg equation for Helium
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Graduate Under what condition <AB>=<A><B> stands?
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Graduate Can a model exist that is local yet realistic in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate A discovered "paradox" in the double slit experiment
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Graduate Could the reason Gravity is not compatible with QM be
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Graduate Oserving wave behaviour Is it 2d, 3d, or is there something more?
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Graduate "Violation of Bell's inequality in fluid mechanics"
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