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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Can the bare mass of a photon be set to zero in gauge theories?
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Graduate Understanding Hermitian Operators for QM Beginners
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Graduate How can I construct singlet, triplet, and more with S=1 ions?
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Graduate D-Wave quantum computer processor
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Observer Effect & Measurement Problem
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Graduate Unseen Light's Puzzling Behaviour
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Graduate Is Probability the Same as Possibility in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Can Tritium Undergo Nuclear Decay in 1 Second or 1 Eon?
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Undergrad About compton's effect of shift in wavelengths
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Graduate Double Slit and Shroedinger's Cat
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Graduate Planck's law for longer wavelengths
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Graduate Unitary time evolution - products of consecutive evolutions
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Graduate Heisenberg equation of motion for the Dirac field?
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Graduate Multiple events caused by a single photon
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Graduate Is the Wave Function a Fundamental Hypothesis in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Why is the anti-neutrino going against time?
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Graduate Unraveling the Atomic Spin: Understanding the Building Blocks of Matter
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Graduate Optics from a Quantum Mechanical stand point
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Graduate Origins of the electromagnetic force
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Graduate Do Quantum Particles Generate Gravity Waves?
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and communication
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Graduate Nature of Electrons inside an atom
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Graduate Behaviour of 3-fermions in a Magnetic Field
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Graduate Density Operators: What's the Copies of the Same System?
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Graduate Why Does Planck's Law Assume Oscillator Energy Applies to Electromagnetic Modes?
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Graduate How Does a Blackbody Emit Radiation Beyond Its Oscillator Frequencies?
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Graduate Material for Quantum Transport
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Graduate Use of QED equations of motion?
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Graduate Meaning of the Energy-Time Uncertainty Relation
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Graduate Does the uncertainty principle apply at all to photons?
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Graduate Questions about Quantum erasure with causally disconnected choice
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Graduate Spin vs Dirac Equation: Understanding Physical Spin
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Graduate Can Raising and Lowering Operators Be Found for an Anharmonic Oscillator?
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Graduate Stability against small perturbation.
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Graduate Will same event happen at a parrallel universe?
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Graduate What Does A Represent in the Quantum Mechanical Wave Equation Ae^{i(kx-wt)}?
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment with White Light and one Slit colour filtered
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Graduate The Simplest Eigenfunction for Schrödinger's Wave EQ?
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Graduate Advanced atomic physx: From Liouville Equation to the Bloch equations
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Graduate Query about quantum superposition and wave functions
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Graduate Question about wavefunctions and their Hilbert space
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Graduate Destructive interference - What happens to the energy?
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Graduate Spin assumption for fermions in potential well.
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Graduate Thermal AND Quantum Fluctuations?
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Graduate Planck length and quantized position
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Graduate Did I Mess Up My CHSH Inequality Simulation?
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Graduate Simultaneous recognition of to change and being constant
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Graduate Measurement of singularity as a particle inside event horizon
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Graduate Bell's theorem: actual experiment event by event
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Graduate How are chemical bonds described by quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Collapse of Wavefunction, Double-Slit Experiment
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Graduate What are the SU groups? I.e SU(2), SU(3)?
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Graduate The Time Independence of Normalization
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Graduate Allowed energy levels of electrons
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Graduate Double-Slit Interference in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Why is quantum physics needed to explain photosynthesis ?
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Graduate Hydrogen Atom in homogeneous magnetic vector potential
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Graduate A tad confused about gravitons
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Graduate Deriving Photon Rotation Formula for Monte Carlo Simulation - Step-by-Step Guide
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Graduate Transition probabilities subject to Lloyd's finite information limit?
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Graduate Detecting state of an electron
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Graduate Spacetime and gravity and fields
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Graduate Degeneracy: Is it Necessary for Experiments?
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Graduate Dimensions of Hilbert Spaces confusion
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Graduate Polarization coincidence formula for known polarization?
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Graduate Does Gaussian function give bound states for a particle?
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Graduate Quantum mechanicss after electrical and electronics engineering?
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Graduate A Commutator of annihilation operator
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Graduate State vectors and Eigenvalues?
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Graduate The probability of something happening
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Graduate Coherence time of parametrically downconverted entangled photons
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Graduate Fourier transform of an assumed solution to a propagating wave
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Graduate Is the trace of an outer product always equal to 1?
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Graduate Reflection/refraction probability
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Graduate Virtual Particles in Inter-Quark Space
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Graduate Article on Hanson quantum teleportation
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Graduate The rigid rotator and Angular momentum.
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High School Quantum Teleportation Explained: Simple Terms for 13 Y/O
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Graduate Atmospheric Emission: Climate Change, CO2 & Quantum Chemistry
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Graduate Some questions about the heisenberg picture
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Graduate Non Commuting Observables not Representing a Complete Set?
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Graduate Casimir Effect, what does (x,θ) mean?
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Undergrad Relation between photons and EM wave frequency
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Graduate Index Notation & Dirac Notation
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Graduate Unitary transformation of pure states to other pure states
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Graduate Photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM)
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Graduate The state of a hydrogen electon ?
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Graduate Forming new energy levels in semiconductor by UV light
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Graduate Physical meaning of solution to step potential with E = V0
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Graduate Is Quantum Gravity the Key to Understanding the Universe?
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Undergrad How does atmospheric dissipation affect UV light measurements?
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Graduate Equation of Motion from Lagrangian - Zee QTF in a Nutshell
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Source for "Shut up and calculate"
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Graduate What happens to psi in Infinite potential well
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Graduate A question about CP Violation.
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Graduate What doe it mean that energy is quantized?
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Graduate Feynman's detectors at double slit
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Graduate Emergent coordinate systems in quantum physics
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Graduate Hypothesis of Quantum Entanglement acting up particle/wave duality
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