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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Could very low energy virtual particles last a very long time?
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Graduate Over-simplified Bell test experiment
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Graduate Desctructive inteference of coherent light beams
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Graduate What is the meaning of the ∂ symbol in wave function equations?
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Graduate What is the scale or density when the double slit experiment stops working?
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Graduate How Does Introducing a Second Magnetic Field Affect NMR and Quantum Behavior?
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Graduate Clasical and quantum harmonic oscillator - correspondence principle
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Graduate Can an airplane go through a quantum tunnel
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Graduate Bound state transitions in QFT
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and determinism
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High School Threshold frequency of metals
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Graduate What is the purpose of the renormalization group?
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Graduate The radial schrodinger equation
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Graduate So light has dual nature but I was wondering
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Undergrad Magnetic Field Orbital Splitting
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Graduate Semiclassical exact expression ?
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Graduate How Does Phase Affect Quantum State Transformations and Interference Patterns?
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Undergrad Compton Effect: Understand Maths & Photon Production
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Graduate Anyons: distinguishable or indistinguishable?
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Graduate Measuring which path in Hardy's paradox, results
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Undergrad Can waves of different types produce interference?
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Graduate Matter waves of various particles - do they interact?
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Graduate Do un-entangled photons exist?
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Graduate Wigner's theorem, Bargmann's proof
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Graduate Wick's theorem for other statistics
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Undergrad Why wave theory is wrong - A quick question
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Graduate Addition of spin angular momenta
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Graduate Why is superdeterminism not the universally accepted explanation of nonlocality?
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Undergrad Need help, my text books explanation on de broglies hypothesis is very confusing
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Graduate Invitation: Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's life in science online lecture
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Graduate Novie questions about the double-slit experiment
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Graduate Are Anyons Possible in Two Dimensions?
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Graduate Rotation energy in a ball symmertical molecule, why only two axis?
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Graduate Is electron spin uniquely determined?
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Graduate Four Fundamental Forces - What Is the Fourth?
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Graduate Destructive interference in the wavefunction, is this conceptually explainable?
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Graduate Gravitational force of antimatter
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Graduate Why i in Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Is Space Expansion Driven by Self-Expansion or Dark Energy?
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Graduate Why Use Spherical Coordinates for Hydrogen Atom's Hamiltonian in 3D?
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Graduate Why imaginary co-ordinates and complex numbers?
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Undergrad Scanning tunnelling microscope - Whats the piezoscanner for?
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Graduate Explanation of 6j Symbols (Tetrahedron)
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Undergrad What Causes Refraction to Occur?
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Graduate Metal Contact Effect on 1-D particle in a box quantum well
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Graduate Time Travel - Between two Kerr metric black holes w/detached event horizons
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Graduate What are the four bell states and how do they relate to entanglement swapping?
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Is It Possible to Find a Romney Voter in an Excited State?
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Graduate Do wave-functions pass through transparent obstacles?
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Graduate Why Are Photons Reflected at the Same Angle They Are Absorbed?
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Graduate Quantum Jumps: Do they really exist?
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Graduate Why is the wave function not measurable alone?
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Undergrad Where can I find recommended books to learn about Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Why Does Electron Angular Momentum Not Align with External Field?
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Graduate Help, my brain hurts. Does anything exist?
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Graduate Relation between commutation and quantization
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Undergrad What Is the Conjugate of the Wave Function ψ(x)=R(x)e^(ikx)?
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Graduate What is the true meaning of observing in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How can you prepare a state with a single photon?
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Graduate Heisenberg Picture: Popularity & Photon Double-Slit Treatment
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Graduate Emilio Santos joins the dark side
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Graduate Do we really need a cutoff in QFT
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Graduate What causes the tilt angle of a precessing proton to change in a magnetic field?
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Graduate A method to detect fermionic magnetic monopoles?
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Graduate Decoherence and the Density Matrix
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Graduate How Does Gravitational Lensing Work in the Delayed Choice Experiment?
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Graduate Understanding Renormalization in QFT: A General Approach to Mass and Fields
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Graduate A few questions on quantum physics
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Graduate How to find the geometry of singlet/triplet states?
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Graduate How does the Pauli exlusion principle work?
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Graduate Does schrodinger equation give complete description of electron?
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Graduate The role of lambda in Bell (1964) and experiments
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Graduate Excitons. Is this the same as radiative recombination?
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Graduate Q regarding Quantum decoherence, r.e. double slit experiment
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Graduate Quantum entanglement communication
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Undergrad What Is the Collapse of the Wave Function in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Questions abot magnetic monopoles
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Graduate Wave functions, i don't get em
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Graduate Schrodinger's Wave Equation: Understanding Observability
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle & Particles Giving Off Light
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Graduate Couple of questions on quantum physics from non-physicist
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Graduate Assumptions for derivation of Plancks' law
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Graduate Difficulty with relativistic units, eV/c^2
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Graduate Wave Function: Physical Basis of 1st Order Derivative
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High School How matter converted into energy?
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Graduate Heisenbergs thought experiment
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Graduate Two simultaneous measures of complementary properties
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Graduate Finding the 3x3 Matrix Representation of SU(2)
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Graduate Particles and Wigner little groups
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Graduate What does the wavevector \vec{k} mean?
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Graduate Query about Grassmann Variables in Lewis Ryder's book
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Graduate Challenges of very high energy physics
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Graduate Schwartz Distribution Theory in N variables?
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Graduate Electron density in terms of squares of wavefunctions
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Graduate Object Jumping from Quantum Vibrations Statistical Mechanics
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Graduate Quantum particles expand space?
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Graduate Braggs law and x-ray crystallography
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Graduate Eigen Value, Eigen function -Schrodinger wave equation
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Graduate Detecting Entanglement in Alice Without Measuring Bob
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Graduate Comparison of strong nuclear force and electromagnetic force
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