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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 Transition dipole moment for hydrogen 1s to free state
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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 Does position measurement collapse to a delta function or a Gaussian spike?
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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 Quantum particle scattering in rectangular waveguide with potential step
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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 Do interference patterns in double slit experiments arise from parallel universes?
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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 Why does SU(2) appear in both flavor and spin quantum numbers?
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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 De Broglie's model: how do electron waves interfere?
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Graduate How do finite photon wave packets produce single frequencies?
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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?
- Rob Hoff
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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 Why do energy levels split in spin-orbit coupling?
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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 Why does stronger nuclear attraction make orbital energy more negative?
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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 Difference between wavefunction ψ(r) and ket |ψ>, and momentum quantisation
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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 Why do electron shells have specific sizes and occupancy limits?
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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 Does the Born rule extend to continuous position measurement over time?
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Graduate Which type of wave does de Broglie's theory suggest for matter?
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Graduate Do energies interact to create matter or vice versa?
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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 Can a dimensionless point have intrinsic spin and create forces?
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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 theory from spinor electrodynamics
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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 Does QFT use relativistic Maxwell or Schrödinger equations for fields?
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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 Do pyramids exist independently of observation?
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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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