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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad "The wavefunction never collapses"
Graduate Formula of Heisenberg Uncertainty
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Graduate Stimulated Emission: De-exciting Electrons with Photons
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Graduate Smoothness of potential energy and powers of momentum
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Graduate Probability of Photoelectric Effect Occuring in the Context of Medical Imaging
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Graduate Determining bound states for delta function potential
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Graduate Change of Basis For Pauli Matrix From Z Diagonal to X Diagonal Basis
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Graduate Quantum vs. Classical Mechanic graphing
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Graduate Does the wave function really collapse into a state?
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Graduate Dirac gammology - dimension of the algebra
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Graduate Determinism in Coin Tosses: Does It Mean We Have Free Will?
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Graduate Meaning of Single Photon Interference Minima
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Graduate QM questions: MO theory orbital combination
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Graduate What are the Bound States for a Sum of Two Negative Delta-Function Potentials?
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Graduate Help to understand the state notation
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Graduate Schrödinger Equation in the classical limit
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Graduate Quarkonium: General Information
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Graduate Wavelength uncertainity for particle in a box
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Graduate Can an electron stand in the same place as a proton?
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Graduate Phase of Orbital/Wavefunctions in Hydrogen 2px
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Graduate That Heisenberg Uncertainity Principle
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Graduate Quantum Measurement Problem: Nature of Matter or Nature of Probability?
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Graduate Schrødinger equation deriving diff equation
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Graduate Understanding Device Identification of Non-Orthogonal Quantum States
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Graduate Identifying Projection Operators: Is Idempotence Enough?
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Undergrad What is the physical unit of teleport?
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Graduate Commutator problem (position, momentum)
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Graduate The Wave-Particle Duality of light and the laws of reflection
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Graduate If you have three things in a bra ket what does it mean?
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Graduate High energies during wave function "collapse"?
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Graduate Why does photons of a given frequency satisfy the Boltzmann distribution?
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Graduate Operators on infinite-dimensional Hilbert space
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Graduate What Is the Minimum Volume of Phase Space?
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Graduate Wave-particle duality at Macro scale?
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Graduate QM and Determinism: Can We Predict the Future?
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Graduate Help with solving for <f |H f >
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Graduate Unit Circle and Quantum Predictions [hidden variable model agrees with QM?]
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Undergrad Double bonds and energy level
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Graduate Neumark dilation and entanglement
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Undergrad Does the intrepretation affect the measurement?
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Graduate How does QED explain charge interaction in the macro world?
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Graduate Spin difference between entangled and non-entangled
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Undergrad Is the Energy Change in a Bohr Atom Always Equal to One Photon?
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Graduate Watching Electrons: Experiments in Feynman's Lectures
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Graduate Beam splitting experiment with single photon
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Graduate Dirac delta function identities
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Graduate Seeking opinion of others on quantum systems control and estimation theory
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Graduate Concerning spherical potential wells
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Graduate Absorption of a photon by atom - where does the energy go?
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Graduate When can you apply Ehrenfest's theorem?
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Graduate Mathematical description of Hilbertspace
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Graduate The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field
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Graduate What Makes Single Photon Quantum Electrodynamics So Complex?
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Graduate TDSWE: Deriving Time Dependent Solutions from TISWE
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Graduate Green Function SHO - Reading Materials & Math Background
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Graduate Plane wave expansion of massive vector boson
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Graduate Spinors: Relativistic vs Non-Relativistic?
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Graduate Concerning spherical Bessel and Neumann functions
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Graduate Solutions for ammonia as two-state system
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Graduate Can You Solve These Commutation Integrals?
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Graduate QFT renormalization and Haag's theorem
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Graduate Quantum Vacuum Plasma Drive Potentially Confirmed by NASA
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Graduate Ground State and Excited State Wave Function - Explained
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Graduate Wave Function from ground to excited
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Graduate Infinitely large quantum number
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Graduate What is the precise mathematical claim in Haag's theorem?
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Graduate What Is the Probability Density of a Non-Wave Electron in a Box?
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Graduate Physics of Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Derivation of the CHSH inequality
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Graduate I have difficulty understanding quantum physics
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Graduate Quantum entanglement, is it real?
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Graduate How would I transmit 1 photon?
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Graduate Wavefunction normalization vs 1/√(|x| )
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Graduate Measurement Theory - Quantum Mechanics Q&A by VVS
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Graduate Can the Schrödinger Equation be Extended to Four Dimensions?
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Graduate Negative kinetic energy value for an electron
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Graduate Can 3 photons bunch, Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect?
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Graduate Creation of matter and energy out of nothing.
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Graduate How Does the Big Bang Contribute to Matter Creation?
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Undergrad How did Paul Dirac find the equation for antimatter?
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Graduate What's the problem with bremsstrahlung?
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Graduate Axiomatization of quantum mechanics and physics in general ?
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Graduate Commuting operators and Direct product spaces
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity: Explaining the Singularity
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Graduate Is There a Connection Between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness?
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Graduate Weak measurement with post selection
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Graduate Numerically solutions with periodic boundary conditions
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Graduate Problem interpreting course notes - 3D wave equation
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Graduate Is Vacuum a Dynamic Entity with Hidden Matter and Energy?
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Graduate Quantum physics without probability?
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Graduate Singularities in the harmonic oscillator propagator
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Graduate What is the Connection Between Hawking Radiation and Dark Matter?
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Graduate Proving Orthogonality by Induction in Second Quantization for Bosonic Systems
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Graduate Density matrix formalism and Poincaré invariance
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Graduate QFT Corrections to Electron's g-Factor: Implications for Spin Symmetry
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Graduate Schrodinger equation with unknown potential function
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Graduate Quantum Measurement: Sharp vs Unsharp - How to Determine?
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Graduate Describing 3-component spin 1 with a 4-Vector
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics of charge-monopole system
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Graduate Regions containing different states in a simple field or substance
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Graduate Translating cumulative rotations into Pauli operators
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