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Which is stronger, a rope without knots or a rope with knots?

What role does "spontaneous symmetry breaking" play in the "Higgs Mechanism"?

Where does deleted information go?

Why the statement "there exist at least one bound state for negative/attractive potential" doesn't hold for 3D case?

How to obtain the explicit form of Green's function of the Klein-Gordon equation?

How is Meissner effect explained by BCS theory?

Green dot on photos when taking photo facing the sun

Floquet quasienergy spectrum, continuous or discrete?

What is the difference between classical and quantum Ising model?

Quantum Hall Effect: Why the spikes of the longitudinal resistance appear every time when Hall conductance jumps?

The idea of analytical continuation method to solve the Klein-Gordon equation, how and why?

Is it possible that we have a physical state which is a mixture of discrete eigenstates and continuous ones?

Why doesn't topological phase transition break any symmetry? Hidden symmetry?

Superconductivity in graphene with spin orbital coupling, is it proper to let the order parameter on two sub-lattice equal?

Will all physical quantities unchanged by this transformation?

How to derive electron number equation of Bogoliubov Hamiltonian using thermodynamic relations.

Can different Floquet replicas be distinguished (within Floquet's theorem)?

Confusion about second-order phase transition between Ehrenfest classification and modern classification

How to write BdG Hamiltonian in graphene?

If BdG Hamiltonian has particle-hole redundancy, how can it be trusted in discussing the topological properties of superconductors?

Is the ground state closest to the uncertainty relation? [duplicate]

Landau level degeneracy in symmetry gauge, finite system

Precisely speaking, does photon become massive or the phonon become massive, due to Higgs mechanism in superconductor?

The wavefunction of the superconductor A consists of two parts: B and C

How to show time reversal symmetry does not break in the tight binding Hamiltonian for the honeycomb lattice?

Gauge transformation for Bloch waves?

Why is the surface integral ignored when deriving the current equation from Ginzburg-Landau theory?

Will water be superconducting if add enough pressure?

Why need non-degeneracy in this theorem?

How to coordinate transform this Lagrangian? [closed]