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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate The electric dipole approximation
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Undergrad Energy Emission: Electrons vs Protons
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Undergrad Is the number of cycles in a wave related to the uncertainty in the wavelength?
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Graduate Early annihilation of antimatter
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Graduate On the use of Hilbert Spaces to represent states
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Undergrad Does a white shirt weight more
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Graduate Can The Free Electrons Be Polarized?
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Graduate The mechanics of calculating Reduced Density Matrices
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Graduate Entanglement in QFT: Free Particle Decay
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Graduate QED Explanation of Force Between Motionless Particles
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Graduate Transformation of observables by permutation
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Graduate How photon is force carrier of electromagnetic force in macroscopic level.?
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Graduate Why is heisenberg uncertainty not a limit of technology?
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Graduate Hydrogen Atom in Uniform Electric Field
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Graduate Instant communication with a modified ZWM apparatus?
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Graduate Redundancy of Virtual Particles Borrowing Energy
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Graduate QFT w/ Negative Mass: Spin 0 vs Spin 1/2
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Graduate What branch of mathematics to study to understand Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Comparing Dirac and Schrodinger Equations for the Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate A particle in a 2d circle with potential
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Unstuck From Multiple Realities: Find Your Original Time Line
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Graduate What types of particles have a higher probability of tunnelling?
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Graduate Entanglement, Entropy and Energy
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Graduate Single Electron D-slit Interference Experiment
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Graduate Rigorous Quantum Mechanics text or online
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Graduate Understanding Electron Volts, Temperature & Boltzmann's Constant
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Graduate Square of a hermitian operator in matrix form
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Graduate Spin of a quickly moving electron
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Graduate Understanding GR vs QM: Contradiction in Neil de Grasse Tyson's Explanation
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Graduate Whats potential energy of a electron left in free space outside atom.?
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Graduate Quantum linking daughter particles from a fission
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Graduate From Metric Spaces to Linear Spaces
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Graduate Complex Amplitude: Physical Meaning & Significance
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Graduate What is the effect of e^(isH)? p.77, Ballentine
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Graduate Kinetic Energy in Classical treatment of Larmor Precession
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Graduate Quantum Computers, how do they work?
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Graduate Quantum gravity and Casimir effect
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Graduate Is the S-matrix in Weinberg's book always unitary?
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Graduate Why does dbb need to assume pilot wave?
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Graduate EM wave function & photon state vector.
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Graduate The Schrödinger equation as the non-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation
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Graduate Energy of e.m waves in a cavity
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Graduate What happens when light moves in electromagnetic field?
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Graduate What does this example say about the applicability of Bell's inequalities?
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Graduate The inconsistent quantum physics and magnetic theory
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Graduate Wavefunction DFT (Mathematica)
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Graduate Compute Matrix for Simple Quantum Gates
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Graduate Quantum Information: Why |<φ|exp(iα)|ψ>|^2 Differs
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Graduate Electron precession and flip contridiction?
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Graduate Question about the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment
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Graduate The physics behind the thermal light quantum imaging?
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Graduate Cross section computation - Huang's Statistical Mechanics
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Graduate Please update me on humanity's relation to the BIG question
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Graduate How/when can I take a wave function and its complex conjugate as independent?
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Graduate Problem with Hermicity of Density matrix
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory lecture by Tong (Cambridg)
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Graduate Three outcome systems in Bell/CHSH
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Graduate What is the relation between particle and field?
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Graduate Momentum operator's relation to commutative algebra
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Graduate Electron Magnetic Moment's Difference From Classical Mechanics
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Graduate Electron spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
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Graduate Wavelength of matter waves at speed equal to zero.
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Graduate Is the Canonical Ensemble Rule Derived Ad Hoc in Statistical Mechanics?
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Graduate Wave Particle Duality Question
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Graduate How can we consider static electromagnetic field in QFT point of view?
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Graduate Hartree Fock Method Symmetric Energy Expression
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Graduate Is the Charge Q Lorentz Invariant in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Is the Polarisation of a Teleported Photon Definite Prior to Teleportation?
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Graduate O(2) symmetry breaking trouble
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Graduate How does a neutral particle interact with a photon?
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Graduate When is operator phi(x) an observable in QFT?
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Graduate Does an electron-positron wavefunction have to be antisymmetric?
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Graduate Can the laws of physics be violated?
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Graduate Question about hermitian operators
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Graduate Can we interchange the Dirac Matrices?
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Undergrad Double slit interference with single pencil lead?
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Graduate Questions concerning Bhabha scattering
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Graduate Grassman numbers and change of variables
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Graduate Matrix Elements of Operators & Orthonormal Basis Sets
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Graduate 2D H.O., graph phase space in R^2?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Born to be Linear?
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Graduate Explaining Time Dependent Potentials
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Graduate Non-unitary process? Doesn't that mean FTL?
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Graduate Density of States: Varying Boundary Conditions
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Graduate Question: Reality of Quantum State Paper by Pusey, Barrettm & Rudolp
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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Occupy Such Large Spaces in Orbitals?
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Graduate Neglected solutions to the (free) Dirac equation?
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Graduate Wavefunction After Measurement
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Graduate A classical challenge to Bell's Theorem?
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Graduate Richard Feynman's sum-over-paths approach to quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Expectation Value for system of identical particles
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Graduate Diffraction of c60. seeking description of experiment.
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Graduate Question about measuring physcial observables
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Graduate Does diamagnetism cause a faster orbital spin
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Graduate A simple question on a modified Double-Slit Experiment
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Graduate What is the uncertainty speed of a hydrogen atom inside a virus?
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Undergrad Difference between an expectation value and an average
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Graduate Super position and mathematical limitations
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Graduate SO(2,1) Lie Algebra Derivation
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Graduate Does Electron Coulomb Repulsion Affect the Double-Slit Experiment Pattern?
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