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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad "The wavefunction never collapses"
Undergrad Fair dice and two slit experiment
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Undergrad Creating : one frame at a time
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High School How Did Galileo's Experiment Measure the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Tunneling effect by means of the instantons
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Graduate Degenerate basis, incomplete set of operators
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Graduate Could Our Universe Be Just a Brane in a Much Larger Reality?
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Graduate Can fractals help solve the mystery of the universe's unified theory?
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Graduate Let us assume Feynman was wrong.
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Graduate Understanding the Bloch Sphere Representation for Quantum States
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Graduate Planck's constant equaled 1 instead of 6.63x10^-34
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Graduate How Real Are Virtual Particles?
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Graduate Showing that wave functions are continuous
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Graduate What are CP maps in QM good for?
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Graduate Understanding Spin States: The Role of Parity and Group Representations
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Graduate Pure spin current vs. spin-polarized charge current?
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Graduate Is the Future Always Uncertain According to Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate A lttile though on multiverses.
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Graduate Just a quick question about some basic terms in QM
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High School Question about double slit experiment
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Graduate Find some clearly written books about quantum physics
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High School What happens when electrons crash into their proton
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Graduate Particles traveling backwards in time
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Graduate Emission line width and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Finding averages of observables of Bell states
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Graduate What Does Our Brain's Quantum Potential Mean for Humanity?
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Graduate When is a hamiltonian separable and when isnt it?
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Graduate Can Infinite Universes Allow for Reincarnation?
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Graduate Question about Hydrogen Atom Solution
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Graduate Do Quantum Orbitals in the Atom Overlap at Different Energy Levels?
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Graduate Reps of lorentz group and pauli and gamma matrices
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Graduate He+ Energy Level Diagram: Interaction Effects?
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Graduate What Happens to One Electron in an Entangled Pair Affects the Other?
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Graduate Thought I had on the nature of randomness.
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Graduate Is it possible to derive HUP from SE?
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High School Triplet State Explanation for Helium Electron Transitions
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Graduate Is Consciousness the Key to Understanding the Universe?
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Graduate Is the Conservation of Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics Only Probabilistic?
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation and wavefunction collapse
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Graduate Photons and Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Understanding Elastic Scattering in Electron-Electron Interactions
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Graduate Does entanglement violate special relativity?
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Graduate Completeness Relation in Quantum Mechanics Explained
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Graduate A question about solving the energy eigenvalue of a given Hamiltonian operator
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Graduate Was Bohr's version of quantum mechanics deeply flawed
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Graduate Massive and massless modes of the anchored string.
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Graduate Finding Maximum Dispersion of Total Number (N)
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Graduate Basic Quantum Transport Question
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Graduate Anomoly in calculations/standard value for electron energy levels
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Graduate Question about lorentz-covariance of Dirac equation
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Graduate How fundamental is inverse square law?
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Graduate Physicist's Double Slit Experiment: How is it Possible?
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Graduate The Clebsch-Gordan Theorem: Proving the Symmetric Spinor Tensors as IRR of SU(2)
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's Paradox: The Answer Revealed
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Undergrad How to picture atomic/electron orbitals
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Graduate Four or Five fundamental forces
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Graduate [Q]Queation about Photon and Electric discharge.
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Graduate Can Photon Wave Properties Be Misunderstood in the Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Quantum Experiment: Results & Observer Impact?
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Undergrad Hardy's Paradox: Explained in Plain Terms
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Graduate Second-Order Field Strength Energy Spectrum of Spherical Shell
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Graduate Discrete Analog of Schrodinger Equation?
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Graduate Connection between the SU(2) group for the spin 1/2
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Graduate Question about number operator and density operator
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Graduate Youngs slits in the particle frame
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Graduate Are Photons and Electrons Indistinguishable Based on Their Wavefunction Alone?
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Graduate The Line That Seperates QM and Relativity?
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Graduate Double slit and quater wave plates
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Graduate What do these states mean physically?
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Graduate When can the time-independent Schrodinger be used?
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Graduate Time-varying expectation values
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Graduate Thought Experiment Involving Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Klein gordan equation in electromagnetic potential
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Graduate Feshbach Resonance: Links, Articles, Books for Applications
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Graduate Forces unified at the time of the big bang
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Graduate Entanglement: I am confused as to what actually happens in this process
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Graduate Partial quantum / partial classical?
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Graduate The effect of wavefunction collapse on spacetime?
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Graduate Effect of changes in Stern-Gerlach fields
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Graduate Wave Interference and the Double-Slit Experiment
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation for a central 2D potential
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Graduate Why is this content nonsensical?
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Undergrad What Is YUKAWA Potential? Explained for Everyone
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Graduate Derivative Terms of Effective Action
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Graduate Created from quantum mechanics
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Graduate Why Is Quantum Contact Conductance Maximized at 2*q^2/h Even Without Scattering?
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Graduate What is the Significance of the Planck Length-to-Mass Ratio in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Spinors and spatial coordinates
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory Observables: Distinguishing Two Types in Free Fields
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Graduate Question About Complex Scalar Field: Advantages/Disadvantages?
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Graduate Does Measuring One Entangled Electron Affect the Other?
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Graduate Is the ground state of a negative potential always even?
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Undergrad Why is the operator <p> considered real in calculus?
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Graduate Time ind. S.E., qualitative solution
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Graduate Schrodinger equation from commuation relations
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Graduate Numerially integrate the radial schrodinger equation
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Graduate Question about Renormalization Group Equation
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Graduate Exponent of disconnected Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Does the Quantum Eraser Experiment Truly Erase Information or Alter Causality?
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Graduate Lengendre Polynomials of cos(theta)
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Graduate How Many Parallel Worlds Are There?
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