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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics
Undergrad Weinberg Lectures in QM (2013 Ed.), Equation 7.10.15
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics stationary state
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Undergrad Negative energy when a laser goes through lithium niobate crystal?
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Undergrad Density Operators of Pure States
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Undergrad Time-energy uncertainty relation
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Undergrad Can I find a particle in two states simultaneously?
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Undergrad Analytical proof of LASER production
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Undergrad New Nobel Aspect contradicts himself on action at a distance bel
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Undergrad Predetermination in quantum theory and information theory
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Undergrad In Bell's Theorem, communication
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High School Will Quantum Entanglement Lead to a 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Graduate Many-Particle Wavefunction Question
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Undergrad Energy from quantum systems in an expanding universe?
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Graduate Concept of wavefunction and particle within Quantum Field Theory
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Undergrad Postive rays in cathode ray tube experiments?
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Graduate Why is this C-G coefficient always zero?
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Undergrad Wave packet experimental detection
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Graduate Does there exist a proof for these conjectures?
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High School What’s the necessity of the strong force?
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Undergrad About normalization of periodic wave function
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High School Is there another workable interpretation of the Bell Inequality?
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Undergrad How can gravitons have anti particles?
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Undergrad Why does the QFT Lagrangian not already use operators?
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Undergrad Is Planck's Law of Black-Body Accurate?
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Undergrad What sense does it make to "weigh" a Casimir cavity?
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Undergrad Einstein summation convention in QM
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Undergrad Has the Unruh Effect ever been observed?
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Undergrad Quantum events near a black hole
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Undergrad How Do Radio Antennas Function in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Time-dependent to time-independent Schrödinger equation
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Graduate What is a "transient" value in the Ising model?
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High School About infinity and all possibilities of Multiverse/Omniverse
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Undergrad Haag's Theorem: Explain Free Field Nature
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Undergrad Understanding Planck's Quantum of Action for Beginners
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MHB Matrices Often Used in Quantum Computing
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Undergrad The CMB has a thermal black body spectrum
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Undergrad Polarization of photons quantum mechanically
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High School Understanding Waves, Particles and Probabilities
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Undergrad Does chaos amplify inherent quantum level randomness?
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Undergrad Experimenting with Spinor Rotations & Sign Changes
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Undergrad Operators in finite dimension Hilbert space
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What are the basic mathematical objects in QFT?
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Undergrad How does one compute the Fourier-Transform of the Dirac-Hamiltonian?
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MHB Different Kinds of Quantum Computing Measurement Operators
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Undergrad Understanding No Energy Degeneracy in Sakurai's Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Realizing EIT with Pulsed Laser: Intensity, Duration & Frequency
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Undergrad Where does the QM creation operator get its energy?
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Undergrad Inner product - positive or positive semidefinite?
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Undergrad The Wavefunction when Mass is Much Greater than Planck's Constant
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Undergrad Wondering why quantum entanglement occurs
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MHB Quantum Computing: Positive Operators are Hermitian
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Undergrad Why is the SE better than the KG equation for a hydrogen atom?
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Undergrad Vector operator acting on a ket gives a ket out of the state space
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High School Positive Definite Cartan Matrices in Quantum Physics
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Undergrad Bell's circuit beginner's question: Sampling alters, - what's normal?
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Undergrad What is so compelling in the superposition theorem?
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Undergrad Inner and Outer Product of the Wavefunctions
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Undergrad Understanding Wave Function Probabilities for a Free Particle
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Undergrad Entanglement and FTL signaling in professional scientific literature
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Undergrad How does atomic absorption spectroscopy work
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High School The relationship between the particle, the wave and the field
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Graduate Coherent quantization, the non-unitary case
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High School Is the probability of a quantum outcome ever zero such as with....
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Graduate Matrix representation of a unitary operator, change of basis
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High School QM concept of photon.... still a bit of a mystery today?
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Graduate Is there a lost information paradox for quantum physics?
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Graduate Question about stimulated Raman emission
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High School How does exchange of elementary particles result in a force?
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Undergrad Questions about Franck-Condon principle
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Undergrad When and why does an electron emit a photon?
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Graduate Probability flux integrated over all space is mean momentum?
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Undergrad Trying to Understand the 1928 article by Raman on Nature
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Undergrad Understanding Spin States in 2D Vector Spaces
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Undergrad Doubt on Morse potential and harmonic oscillator
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Undergrad With chips having 2 nm transistors, are we at the end of Moore's Law?
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Undergrad Counterfactual quantum computation on interferometer
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High School What is a non-local Hamiltonian?
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Undergrad Determining the Number of Points in the n-Space
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Graduate Can local conservation be verified experimentally?
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Undergrad Has Google Truly Achieved Quantum Supremacy?
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Undergrad Definition of functional derivative
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Graduate Quantum Properties of Quasi Static Electric Fields
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High School What sort of an experiment can refute QM or QFTs?
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Undergrad Is the Energy Expectation Value Always Real and Above a Minimum Potential?
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Is the concept of "potential" just a mathematical model?
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Undergrad Quantum computation and entropy
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High School Questions about the position of the particle
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High School Why do subatomic particles change what they do when observed?
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High School Shor's algorithm on a Google Sheet
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High School Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle a result of measurement inadequacies?
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Undergrad Interpreting ##A^{\mu}(x)|0\rangle## and ##\psi (x) |0\rangle##
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Graduate What are the unusual absorption features observed in the EIT signal of 85Rb gas?
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Undergrad Black hole singularity vs. quantum mechanics
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Graduate Current Status of Electromagnetic Triviality
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High School Particle Function? Particle Equation?
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Graduate In What Space Does Quantum Spin Take Place
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Undergrad Partition function for continuous spectrum
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Graduate Energy Levels and Wave Functions of Identical Particle Systems
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Graduate Symmetry & Invariance of Pions: π+, π0, π− and Other Mesons Explained
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Undergrad What happens to the other particle in an entanglement state?
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