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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Position vector r and uncertainty principle
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Graduate Double slit experiment with electrons
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Undergrad Does a gamma ray photon have less energy than a radiowave photon?
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling: Particle location
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Graduate What is the explanation behind the binary result in the EPR thought experiment?
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Undergrad If the bohr model of the atom is correct
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Graduate Explaining Determinism: A Layman's Guide to Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Complex term in refractive index , in context to rayleigh scattering
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and Observation: How Does It Work?
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High School Teleportion Questions - Michio Kaku Answers
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Graduate Feynmann diagram for photoemission process
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Graduate New quantum experiments and its implications
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Graduate I'm really new to the concept of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Mastering Bra-ket Notation: Frustrations with Quantum Mechanics Lectures
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Graduate In what sense is QM not understood ?
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Graduate What Happens to Quantum Mechanics at E=U in Step Potential?
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Graduate Can electron revolving around atom become source of gravity.?
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Undergrad Time Dilation in Childrens Cartoon
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Graduate How Does Fermat's Principle Integrate with Quantum Physics?
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Graduate How do you tell if lie groups are isomorphic
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High School Physical representation of direction
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Graduate Time symmetric quantum mechanics
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Graduate Why the magnetic moment not included in the Lorentz Force equation.
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Graduate How is the QM prediction derived for Bell's tests?
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Undergrad 2 slit experiment, what happen with 3,4,5 ?
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Graduate Arrow of time in copenhagen interpretation.
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Graduate Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?
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Graduate Many questions about qubit (quantum computing)
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Graduate Is any energy required to change the spin of a photon?
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Graduate Number of cycles of light per photon
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Graduate Why Does the Balmer Series Dominate the Solar Spectrum Over the Lyman Series?
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Graduate Abnormal behavior of the Liouville-von-Neuman equation
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Graduate How Do Photons Entangle Electrons?
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Graduate The failure of so-called no-communication theorems
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Graduate Indeterminism of Quantum Mechanics and incompatibility with Relativity
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Graduate Who developed this equation, Pauli?
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Graduate Is the delta in the commutation relations of QFT a dirac delta or a kronecker?
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Graduate Lorentz invariant theory, irreducible representations
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Graduate Understanding AdS and quantization in AdS
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Graduate Could ‘Wheeler's delayed choice experiment’ be delayed？
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Graduate Quantum tunneling and extra dimensions
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Graduate How stable/fragile is Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Static vs Dynamic: Can Massive Particles Have Parallel Spacetime Trajectories?
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Graduate New loophole free EPR test with photons by Wittmann et al
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Graduate How does QE explain more mismatches in Bell's test at wider angles?
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Graduate Is gravity more fundamental than EM?
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Graduate Understanding QM and M-theory: A Quick Clarification on Decoherence
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Graduate Can 1014 atoms exhibit quantum superposition and interference?
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Graduate Can We Differentiate Between Unpredictability and Randomness?
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Graduate Question about Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Can we really call it an antineutrino?
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Graduate Can Particles Really Pass Through Walls in the Quantum World?
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Graduate Verifying the Partition Function of the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Why is quantum entanglement special?
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Graduate Bose Symmetry Explained: Definition & Meaning
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Graduate Does the Poisson Bracket Always Equal Zero When Both Observables Start at Zero?
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Graduate Unraveling the Wave-Particle Duality: Understanding the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Do Electrons Need to Be Observed By a Person?
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Graduate Complex exponential description of SHM
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Graduate Determinant of a special conformal transformation
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Graduate Schrödinger's equation, its derivation
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Graduate Understanding S-Orbital When l = 0
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Graduate Electron annihilation - what happens to gravity
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Graduate Is the Bound State Wave Function Always Real or Imaginary?
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Graduate Need advice with learning renormalization groups
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Graduate Pauli exclusion and covalent bonds
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Graduate Higher Bound State: Definition & Meaning
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Graduate Trouble with noether's theorem
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Graduate Understanding communication via QE - is filtering the only obstacle? to FTL
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Graduate State of electron in hydrogen atom
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Graduate Experimentally determine position of electron
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Graduate What Are the Implications of the EPR Paradox on Quantum Mechanics and Locality?
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Graduate Number of electrons in each shell
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Graduate Delocalization of electron in hydrogen atom
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Graduate Path Integral Formulation: Allowable Paths?
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Graduate Importance of constrained Hamilton dynamics and BRST transformations
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Undergrad How are stellar EM radiation formed?
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Graduate Coordinate representation of the momentum operator
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Graduate Why is angular momentum quantized?
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Graduate Sudden changes, what happens to particle?
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Graduate How is it possible that a superposition of z+ and z- can ever equal x-?
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Undergrad Understand the Collision of Electrons - Get Clarity from 'pf mentor
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Graduate Derive Energy Values of Rigid Rotator & SHO Without Schrodinger Eq.
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Graduate Operations on a State in Different Bases
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Undergrad What is the physical composition of energy?
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Graduate What Went Wrong with Quantum Commutator Problems?
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Graduate Energy conservation in the classically forbidden region
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Graduate Doubt in Wheeler's delayed choice experiment
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Graduate What does it mean to be momentum entangled?
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Undergrad Are the orbitals circular or spherical or parabolic? Are they 3D?
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High School Only metals undergo photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Degenerate Orbitals: Can Orbitals' Degeneracy be Affected?
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Undergrad Are Planets Electrically Neutral or Charged?
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Graduate Working on a movie and have a question on observer and double slit experiment
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Undergrad What is the Essential Mystery of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Online Quantum Physics courses
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Undergrad Understanding Electron Spin and its Role in Atomic Structure
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Graduate Time Evolution Of A 1-D Gaussian Wave Packet Under The Gravitational Potential
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Undergrad Infrared Radiation: Where Does It Come From?
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