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34 votes
5 answers
16k views

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Applied to an infinite square well

3 votes
2 answers
2k views

Question regarding the frequency of a cyclotron:

3 votes
2 answers
4k views

Direction of spin of a particle after parity transformation

3 votes
1 answer
2k views

Decay width of the tau lepton

3 votes
2 answers
250 views

Understanding the density operator in quantum mechanics for a joint system

2 votes
0 answers
95 views

Difference between Fixed Nuclei approximation, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, adiabatic nuclei approximation

2 votes
1 answer
2k views

Quantum Mechanics Spectral decomposition misunderstanding

2 votes
1 answer
254 views

Heisenberg uncertainty principle meaning and using it to determine approximate sizes confusion

1 vote
0 answers
158 views

Derive the virial theorem from hydrostatic equikibrium

1 vote
1 answer
356 views

Clausius Inequality application to engine

1 vote
4 answers
1k views

Momentum of an ultrarelativistic electron

1 vote
2 answers
671 views

Feynman diagram for semileptonic decay of neutral kaon

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2 answers
7k views

Hermitian operator followed by another hermitian operator – is it also hermitian?

1 vote
2 answers
348 views

Two field form of the Maxwell equations: Why are effects due to polarisation ignored.

1 vote
1 answer
305 views

Proper time Relativity

1 vote
1 answer
532 views

Why do relativistic effects that cause contraction of the $s$ and $p$ orbitals impact the $s$ and $o$ orbitals further away from the nucleus?

1 vote
2 answers
7k views

Converting energy from units of joules into units of wavenumber

1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Determining the probability of measuring a particular eigenvalue for angular momentum given the angular wave function

1 vote
2 answers
111 views

Finding the trace of a system explicitly

1 vote
1 answer
159 views

Calculating the reduced density matrix of two separate experiments

1 vote
2 answers
124 views

Rate of change of position coordinate with respect to proper time for a particle moving in the Schwarzschild spacetime

1 vote
1 answer
181 views

Understanding where all the equations from a covariant derivative of a tensor come from

1 vote
1 answer
129 views

WKB approximation difficulty - deciding what term to neglect

1 vote
1 answer
186 views

Turning a bra made up of a tensor product of two bras into a ket (and vice-versa)

1 vote
1 answer
283 views

Finding the probability of measuring a particular eigenvalue of an operator for a system after time evolution

1 vote
2 answers
626 views

If two operators are related to each other by a unitary operator, are their eigenvalues the same?

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2 answers
2k views

Finding the Full width half maximum of a function

1 vote
2 answers
2k views

Understanding the density matrix for systems in thermal equilibrium

1 vote
2 answers
1k views

Derivative of unitary time evolution operator

1 vote
2 answers
855 views

How does the tranpose conjugate of an operator act on a bra and a ket in the context of annihilation and raising operators?