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Newton's law requires two initial conditions while the Taylor series requires infinite!

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Symmetry Breaking And Phase transition

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Rest mass of phonon: is this concept definable?

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Scattering, Perturbation and asymptotic states in LSZ reduction formula

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Why the electrons below the Fermi level do not conduct electricity?

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Are the first order phase transitions always associated with a latent heat?

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What would qualify as a deceleration rather than an acceleration if speed is unchanged?

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What is the physical implication(s) of the isomorphism between ${\rm SO}(2)$ and $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$?

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Why do we take two different approaches to the “meaning of causality” in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory?

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QED and anomaly

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Boosts are non-unitary!

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temperature of electroweak phase transition

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What is the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of individual photons?

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Localized field quanta?

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Why there is no hole in Sommerfeld's model of free electrons?

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$(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})$ representation of $SU(2)\otimes SU(2)$

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Relation between Wilsonian renormalization and Counterterm Renormalization

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What are the minimal postulates to do quantum mechanics in path-integral formulation without knowing the operator formulation?

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642 Questions

Why does a system try to minimize its total energy?

Idea of Covering Group

Newton's law requires two initial conditions while the Taylor series requires infinite!

What is the conclusion from Aharonov-Bohm Effect?

Self-adjoint and unbounded operators in QM

What does a $\rm SU(2)$ isospin doublet really mean?

Symmetry Breaking And Phase transition

Rest mass of phonon: is this concept definable?

Scattering, Perturbation and asymptotic states in LSZ reduction formula

Why is Higgs particle detected much later than top quark when it's lighter? [duplicate]

Why the electrons below the Fermi level do not conduct electricity?

Are the first order phase transitions always associated with a latent heat?

How do we prove that the 4-current $j^\mu$ transforms like $x^\mu$ under Lorentz transformation?

What would qualify as a deceleration rather than an acceleration if speed is unchanged?

What is the physical implication(s) of the isomorphism between ${\rm SO}(2)$ and $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$?

Why do we take two different approaches to the “meaning of causality” in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory?

QED and anomaly

Boosts are non-unitary!

temperature of electroweak phase transition

What is the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of individual photons?

Localized field quanta?

Why there is no hole in Sommerfeld's model of free electrons?

$(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})$ representation of $SU(2)\otimes SU(2)$

Relation between Wilsonian renormalization and Counterterm Renormalization

What is the physical significance of the double connectivity of $\rm SO(3)$ group manifold?

What are the minimal postulates to do quantum mechanics in path-integral formulation without knowing the operator formulation?

Ambiguity in number of basis vectors [duplicate]

Majorana mass vs Dirac Mass

Why are the generators of rotation in the 4-dimensional Euclidean space correspond to rotations in a plane?

Do gamma matrices form a basis?