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Slaviks
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37 votes
4 answers
13k views

What stabilizes neutrons against beta decay in a neutron star?

34 votes
3 answers
2k views

Renormalization Group for non-equilibrium

21 votes
2 answers
4k views

Neutrino oscillations versus CKM quark mixing

19 votes
2 answers
1k views

Does measurement, quantum in particular, always increase the total entropy?

13 votes
1 answer
332 views

Are possible gauge fields in a Lagrangian theory always determined by the structure of the charged degrees of freedom?

13 votes
2 answers
747 views

What does the sum of two qubits tell about their correlations?

11 votes
2 answers
3k views

Hydrostatic friction: why do water droplets stay at rest on an inclined glass surface?

10 votes
1 answer
860 views

Is Bose-Einstein condensate a good example of a classical massive boson field?

9 votes
2 answers
4k views

Which is the "roundest man-made object": Gravity probe B rotor or the Avogadro project sphere?

7 votes
1 answer
750 views

Generalization of spin coherent states for an arbitrary group?

7 votes
0 answers
191 views

Can quark-gluon plasma ever be close to an ideal gas of asymptotically free quarks?

7 votes
1 answer
351 views

Canonical averages in a Fermi gas aka generalized Fermi-Dirac distribution

6 votes
1 answer
2k views

Energy balance for beta decay of cobalt-60

6 votes
1 answer
201 views

Everyday example of diffusion unobscured by advection, wetting etc

5 votes
1 answer
815 views

Additional merits to Wetterich's "Universe without expansion" compared to standard cosmological redshift interpretation?

4 votes
1 answer
117 views

Tip of a spreading wave-packet: asymptotics beyond all orders of a saddle point expansion

4 votes
1 answer
462 views

A loop quantum gravity toy inspired by an Aharonov-Bohm ring

4 votes
2 answers
394 views

Combinatorial sum in a problem with a Fermi gas

2 votes
1 answer
614 views

"Classical" limit of Quantum Hall Effect

2 votes
2 answers
319 views

Introducing emf of a chemical cell as a hint towards quantum mechanics