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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Undergrad Quantum Tunneling VS Water (or any other) Waves
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Graduate Quark-Gluon Plasma: Temperature, Validity & Quantum Theories
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Graduate What is the range of angles for the quantum spin correlation formula?
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Graduate SU(2) generators in j=1, and pauli uncertainty
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Graduate Time Dependence in Pictures of QM
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Graduate What is the Operator for Absolute Value of Momentum in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate 1D Groundstate wavefunction always even for even potential?
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Graduate Quantum linear response theory?
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Graduate Radius of the electron and uncertainty
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Graduate Why is the pilot-wave theory controversial ? Is it?
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Graduate Conservation of momentum and uncertainty.
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High School Query regarding concepts of charges
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Graduate How does conservation of energy/mass apply to neutrinos?
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Graduate Is the Quantum Spin Complementary?
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Graduate Deriving Measurement Operators for Realistic Detectors
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Undergrad Electron Configuration for Multivalent electrons.
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Graduate Spectrum of Sodium vs. Hydrogen
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Graduate Can a conscious observer collapse the probability wave?
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Graduate Question on the probabilistic nature of QM
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Graduate Repeling particles on a ring, minimum angular momentum.
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Graduate Noether currents for local gauge symmetry
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High School I wanted to know how it is determined uncertainty
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Undergrad Can EM Radiation Create Repulsion on Non-Magnetic Objects?
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Graduate How Can the Bell Experiment Be Performed with a Guaranteed Polarization?
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Graduate Field theory plane wave volume integral
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Graduate The crazy world of quantum mechanics.
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Graduate Plane waves and sites distance in a lattice
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Graduate Need help with Weinberg's QFT-Space inversion and time-reversal
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Graduate What is the Smallest Unit of Time for Measuring Acceleration?
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Graduate Visualising mathematical concepts in QM - comments needed
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Graduate Blurness of rings in electron diffraction
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Universe from Nothing: A Book Review
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Graduate An issue with the vector model of spin and its operators
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Graduate Equivalent vectors in a Hilbert space
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Graduate Quantum Mechanical Tunneling Probability
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Graduate Double-slit experiment questions
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Graduate Can Two Particles Occupy the Same Position in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Big bang according to Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Photon Emission from electrons and the EM field
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Graduate Who does or sees an experiment on rectangluar potential barrier?
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Graduate Trying to understand Quantum Entanglement, String Theory, and the BB
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Graduate Conservation of L^2 and Lz in central potential
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Graduate What is the hardest question to ask a quantum physicist?
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Graduate Do you use QM in Conjunction With QED/QCD?
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Graduate Solution to the dirac equation and the square root of a matrix?
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Undergrad Double slit and psychology? General question.
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Graduate Born rule for degenerate eigenvalue
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Graduate Mass of Electron: What is True?
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Graduate Can a Charge to Planck Mass Ratio Be Validly Calculated?
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Graduate Some questions on planck constant
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Graduate Lonely Hydrogen Atom in Space (casimir)
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Graduate I have no idea what 'Normalize'/'Normalization' means Help please?
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Graduate Standing Waves: Particles & Atomic/Molecular Orbitals
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Graduate Can Entangled Particles Be Used for Quantum Communication?
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Graduate Do virtual particle pairs interact gravitationally?
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Graduate Generator of Rotations and commutation relationships
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Graduate Building the CRT's for the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate From unitary operator to hamiltonian
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Graduate Understanding Unitary Operator Evolution in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Reconciling DeBroglie and Dirac?
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Graduate Does the Schrodinger Equation Describe Particles Popping In/Out of Existence?
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Graduate Lande g-factor and total angular momentum conservation
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Graduate Is nothing an unstable thing that violates HUP?
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Graduate What would you consider to be the most quintessential equations of QM?
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Graduate Proving an Identity Involving Gamma Matrices: Help Needed
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Graduate Don't understand continuous basis
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Graduate How to Derive the Chern-Simons Contribution to the Effective Action?
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Graduate Representations of the Lorentz group
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Graduate Quantum eraser input polarization
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Graduate Building a quantum computer from living parts (FMO proteins)
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Graduate Proof of traceless gamma matrices
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Graduate Relation between quantum computer and quantum field theory?
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Graduate How many combinations are possible with the four quantum numbers?
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Graduate Does CP Violation in Weak Interaction Suggest Perpetuum Mobile of Second Type?
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Graduate How much mathematics do I need to know to start Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Charge conjugation in second quantization
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Graduate What really is a Weak Measurement?
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Graduate Is more than 99.9% of any object is just empty space?
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Graduate A Question about Spin Induced Magnetic Moment
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Graduate Sakurai proof Wigner-Eckart theorem
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Graduate Explanation from Part of Griffith's text (Differential Equation)
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Graduate Imaginary eigenvalues of gamma matrices
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Graduate Velocity and Phase Velocity of Matter Wave
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Graduate How do we measure the position of a particle?
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Graduate Independent fields in euclidean space
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Graduate Photoelectric effect with n photons
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Graduate Detection loophole vs. Spooky action at a distance
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Graduate Higgs boson and the future of quantum phyiscs
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Graduate String Theory: Is Energy a Physical Entity?
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Graduate Just recently I discovered the world of the superfluids and I am
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Undergrad Schrodinger Equation, Potential
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Graduate Help with Understanding Conclusions of the Planck Hypothesis
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Graduate Is the law of noncontradiction still applicable in quantum physics?
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Graduate Adding energy to confined particles
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Graduate Exploring the Difference between KT and Ferro-Para Phase Transitions
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Graduate Exclusion principles for fermions and bosons
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Graduate Electron/Hole Effective Mass vs Solar Cell efficiency
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement at the Big Bang
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Graduate Proving the Poisson summation formula (like a physicist)
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Graduate Gauge invariance requires gauge bosons, why not for neutral fermions?
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