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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Question About the Photoelectric Effect for Lower Frequencies
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Graduate Reversal of limits of integration in the derivation of probability current density
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Graduate Solving Gaussian Potential - Analyzing Energy Differences
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Graduate Applying Schrodinger's Cat Experiment
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Graduate Spin Quantum # in Triplet state
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Graduate Production of bound states of slow fermions- Peskin 5.3
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Graduate What is spin in subatomic particles
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Graduate Has the Uncertainty Principle been defeated?
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Graduate Electromagnetism its counterpart particle? And can it be used to create a PMF?
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Graduate Are There Any Cases of Non-Constant Particle Mass in Solid State Theory?
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Graduate Electron Exclusion via EIT/CPT?
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Graduate Electron excitation, and inhibition with EIT/CPT?
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Graduate How exactly do raising/lowering operators let you know the form of M?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Observation & Wave Function Collapse
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Graduate Can we apply superposition principle for states in Fock space?
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Graduate Solving SE Numerically for Periodic Potential
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Graduate What does touch look like in the subatomic world?
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Graduate State callback in photon teleportation
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Graduate What Does It Mean When Field Quanta Are Not Spatially Localized?
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Graduate Can a particle entangle with itself?
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Undergrad Space between objects when Normal force equals 0
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Graduate Can 2D Systems Simplify Path Integrals in 4D Minkowski Space?
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Graduate Popular accounts of quantum computing
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Graduate Macroscopic superpostion and hidden variable theories
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Undergrad Why Does One Photon of Light Cause the Emission of One Electron?
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Undergrad Infinite Universe, All Combinations of Matter Exist
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Graduate What is Spin in Elementary Particles?
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Graduate Photonic Properties Determining Charge
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Graduate Quantum Gas Below Absolute Zero
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Graduate What Factors Influence the Lifetimes of He S=1,0 States in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How can scattering with interaction at all time be resolved using QFT?
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Graduate Is Feynman's interpretation of the double slit experiment universally accepted?
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Graduate Wrapping my head around holography
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Graduate Ground level energies (Particle in a box vs Harmonic Osc.)
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Graduate The uncertainity principle, a new take?
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Measuring the polariztion of a pair of entangled photons
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Graduate Question about the double-slit experiment.
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Graduate Can the result of an optical circuit depend on when you check it?
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Graduate Spin vs. Charge: Unraveling a Puzzling Relationship
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Graduate Momentum,discrete or continuous spectrum?
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Undergrad What gives a proton it's charge?
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Graduate The generator of time translation
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Graduate Quantum tunnelling w/ macroscopic objects
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Graduate Double Slit - Multiple Observers
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Graduate Problem with changing basis in Hilbert space
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Graduate Faster than light subatomic spin
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Graduate Realism in the vein of EPR and Bell
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Graduate Some fundamental questions on light matter interactions
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Graduate Normalization of photon pulse. I'm confused
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Graduate Differential cross sections in Peskin & Schroeder
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Graduate What are the Origins and Properties of the Graviton?
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Graduate Is reality at quantum level just probablilistic?
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Graduate Wavefunction collapse - experimental proof?
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Graduate Propagator using Functional QFT
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Graduate Evaluate Wigner Weyl Transforms for xp+px/2
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Graduate A peculiarity in uncertainty principle
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Graduate Hermitian Operator Expectation Values
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Graduate Unruh effect and energy imparted to a detector
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Undergrad Is a Planck length really the smallest length?
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Graduate What is the behavior of an electron in an asymmetric potential well?
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Graduate Understanding the Contradiction: Spin Rotation in Quantum Systems
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Graduate Do QM and Thermodynamics interact?
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Graduate Are Field Quanta Truly Real in Quantum Field Theory?
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Undergrad What is the Weak Nuclear Force?
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Undergrad Images of electron orbitals for H2, He, Li and Li2?
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Graduate Does a Detector Alter Diffraction Patterns in the Two-Slit Experiment?
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Undergrad Quick Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Question
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Graduate Does QM itself prevent removal of noise without comparison
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Graduate How Does Gauge Theory Apply to Electrodynamics and Teleparallel Gravity?
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Graduate Parity Violation in Weak Decay
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Graduate Is Macroscopic Pilot-Wave Theory the Key to Understanding Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Neutron interferomerty with Protons?
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Graduate What is the title of the webpage?Do Electrons Really Orbit the Nucleus?
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Graduate What counts as an observation in QM?
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Graduate Reference for Axiomatic Quantum Statistical Mechanics
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Graduate Why photon wave function does not exist?
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Graduate Invariance of schroedinger equation
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Graduate Density matrix off-diagonal elements
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Graduate Can't understand the algebraic theory of spin.
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Graduate Shankar Questions About Quantum Mechanics (Schwarz Inequality)
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Graduate Spin angular momentum of electron
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Undergrad What is the schrodinger equation?
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Graduate Do hidden variable theories reject superposition of states?
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Graduate What is the role of the path-integral formulation in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Question about identical particles.
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Graduate What Books Continue Ballentine's Approach to Quantum Statistical Mechanics?
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Graduate Ground state of Phosphorus Problem
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Graduate Why do experiments violating Bell's inequality matter?
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Graduate Deriving Quantum Numbers from the Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate I don't undersrtand quantum mechanics and string theory
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Graduate Eigenstates of the momentum operator
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Graduate Effect of obstruction on Quantum Entanglement
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Undergrad A gear that i don't know its name
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Graduate Changing the sign of 4-momenta in Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Uncovering Uncertainty: The Experimental Covariance Curve for Entangled Photons
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Graduate Where does the magnetic field in spin-orbit coupling come from?
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Graduate Angular momentum and coordinates
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Graduate How do Gaussian solutions manifest in Dirac diffusion?
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Graduate Using Wolfgang Pauli's Exclusion Principle for communication
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Graduate Energy vs. position eigenstates
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