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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?

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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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