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Gross asymmetry in Maxwell Equations

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Analogue of (anti)commutation relation for anyons

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How is the Yang-Baxter equation equivalent to the Braid equation?

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How can I derive the fact that there are no "non-integral" raising and lowering operators for angular momentum?

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Rigorously, what is the permutation operation in Quantum Mechanics?

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What is the Majorana stellar representation?

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What causes the electric field of a uniformly moving charge to update?

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Wave functions as being square-integrable vs. normalizable

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What is Decoherence? [duplicate]

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Is the zero vector necessary to do quantum mechanics?

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What is the importance of $SU(2)$ being the double cover of $SO(3)$?

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Non-orientable time

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Computing variation of triple wedge term in Chern-Simons action

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Is there a no-cloning theorem for open quantum dynamics?

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Why do people say the dynamics of quantum mechanics is always linear?

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Is Polarization Inconsistent with Classical Electricity?

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How to understand how fields transform?

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Sakurai's explanation of the dipole approximation

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Interpretation of "spin-1/2" in classical Dirac field

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Justification for physical significance of representations of the Poincaré group

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Relativistic conservation of momentum in an elastic collision

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Why does spontaneous symmetry breaking focus on "stable states"?

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Writing surface charge density in 3D

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Is the quadrupole tensor a $(2,0)$ tensor?

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Identity for squeezing spin coherent state

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Quantum mechanics with a classical Chern-Simons term

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1 answer
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Can one encode topology into the position operator in quantum mechanics?

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Does Sakurai's definition of $S$-matrix assume a particular type of scattering?

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Is Sakurai's derivation of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation correct?

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Does Decoherence explain why constituents of composite systems in textbook Statistical Mechanics are assumed to occupy energy eigenstates?