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### Many body quantum rotors

I'm stuck on a particular problem about quantum rotors. Suppose we have $N$ such rotors and they are connected to a thermal reservoir of temperature $T$. Neglecting any center of mass motion, I'm ...
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### Speed of light/quasar [duplicate]

If the gravitational pull of a black hole is strong enough to stop the speed of light from leaving it , then wouldn't a quasar have to travel faster than the speed of light, at some point, to break ...
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### Which renormalisation techniques are available for 3+1 QED?

I hope my question is not too naive, but I would like to know what are the available renormalisation techniques for 3+1 QED. I have read a bit about Pauli-Villars, but I am wondering if there are ...
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### Is it possible to describe the geometric mean of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution?

This may be a more appropriate question for the Mathematics stack exchange, if so forgive its extraneousness. We know the expected value of the distribution, analogous to the weighted arithmetic mean ...
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### Calculating the resistance of a 2d device with spatially-varying resistivity

Suppose I have a 2 dimensional resistor shaped like a rectangle and this resistor has a spatially-varying resistivity, $\rho(x,y)$. How can I calculate the resistance between two opposite edges? I ...
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### Metals/Insulators and Electron Counting

I'm a little confused by the description I commonly hear about the electron counting rule in band theory. The general statement I find is that a "solid with an odd number of electrons per unit cell ...
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### How is 2D spectroscopy able to show quantum coherent transport through networks?

For wave-like (quantum coherent) energy transfer in networks (eg. propagation of excitation in photosynthetic protein complexes of algae or FMO complex in plants) 2D electronic (photon echo?) ...
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### Raman amplification

Recently I read a bit about Raman amplification. Unfortunately, I did not understand everything. As far as I understood the resulting wavelength only depends on the pumping wavelength. Now I heard on ...
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### Coupling a ferromagnet to an antiferromagnet

Consider a system composed of a thin film of FM material on top of an AFM material. From my research I found that pinning of the FM material occurs when we cool the system from $T_N<T<T_C$ to ...
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### Any material to have a significant difference for different colors?

I am looking for a material whose refractive index for the colors green, red and blue to have a significant difference to be visible in simple geometrical optics experiments?! We use a microscope and ...
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### Chemical potential related with quantum and classical limit in ideal gas

For ideal gas we have chemical potential $\mu = \tau \ln \left(\frac{n}{n_Q}\right)$ where $n = N/V$ number density and $n_Q = \left(\frac{M\tau}{2\pi \hbar^2}\right)^{\frac{3}{2}}$ Note we call ...
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### Violation of conservation of energy… or not?

The work done by surface tension is double the increase in potential energy. This is a clear violation of conservation of energy. What is the flaw here? Work done by surface tension is \begin{align} ...
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### How positron and electron annihilate forming photons? [duplicate]

Electron is a particle with momentum $p$ and it spins up. Positron is its antiparticle having momentum $-p$ and it spins down. "A positron is an electron travelling backwards in time" said by Feynman. ...
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### Does non-rotating object have rotational inertia if it is attach to rotating object by a spring

My question relating to the Rotational Inertia as a whole system. As I learn that the Rotational Inertia is defined for a rotating object to an fixed axis but I got problem in the case a rotating ...
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### Rationale for definition of input/output operators in quantum langevin equations

I am going through Gardiner & Zoller's 'Quantum Noise', and following the derivation of the Langevin equations in terms of input/output operators. Let the bath Hamiltonian be: ...
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### Adiabatic Relation in Plasma Invariant and Thermodynamics

In the problem above, I know how to do the 1D part. Basically, you just plug $V_{l\,l} = \frac{J}{L}$ into $\langle \frac{1}{2} m v^2\rangle = \frac{1}{2} k T$. After you get $T$ in terms of $L$, ...
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### Can “uniform motion” (or “mutual rest”) be determined intrinsically, by members of Synge's “five-point curvature detector”?

In his description of a "five-point curvature detector" [1], J. L. Synge exhibits a Cayley-Menger determinant in terms of "optical distances" between five distinct participants; and he states that the ...
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### Does mass increase at relativistic OUTSIDE of the mass's frame of reference? [duplicate]

There are other questions on here with responses saying that the mass does not change from its own frame of reference. But those answers were somewhat unclear if the mass changes to someone observing. ...
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### Is this Process Possible?

An inventor has devised a complicated non-flow process in which 1 mol of air is the working fluid. The net effects of the process are claimed to be: A change in state of air from 250$^{\circ}$C and ...
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### Is it possible for random quantum fluctiations in the Universe to cause a new Big Bang before the death of the Universe? [duplicate]

I have read in some distant future predictions that after some years(numbers like 101500 years) random quantum fluctuations could produce a new Big Bang. Is that possible, and is it possible now, or ...
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### Why do we have to use an integral in this scenario to figure out $v_{max}$? [duplicate]

$$\int_0^R mg\frac{r}{2}dr=\frac{m}{2}v_{max}$$ and can't write $$\frac{m}{2}v_{max}=mgR$$ don't we usually equal potential energy to kinetic energy? A stone is falling through a tunnel towards the ...
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### Potential Difference of a wire?

Imagine a circuit with only a 12 Volts battery and a wire connecting the ends of the battery. Point A and point B lies on the wire. What is then the potential difference between point A and B if the ...
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### Cart moving on frictionless tracks in the rain

I am working on a question in which a cart is moving on frictionless tracks and it begins to rain. The cart has a drainage hole to let the rain out at exactly the same rate at which it enters ...

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