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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

A question about quantum entanglement
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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Graduate Why is quantum entanglement difficult to realize?
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Graduate Energy Conservation versus Quantum and Relativistic Effects
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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement a Means of Evil Communication Across the Galaxy?
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Graduate Mach–Zehnder interferometer question, path detection
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Graduate Question about Quantum Theory regarding hydrogen atom and photon
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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty and virtual particles
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Graduate Heisenberg ferromagnet and spin waves
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Graduate Simplest example where quantization is unknown
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Graduate Quantum optics is a reference to a c-number
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High School Electrical activity of an atom
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Graduate Inverting the quantum cloning of photons
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Graduate Looking for a not gentle introduction to Q. Physics
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Graduate Objects Disappearing: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Questionable Question about Photons and Waves
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Graduate Quantum tunnelling outside the light cone?
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Graduate Why Can't H-Atoms Emit a Single Photon in the 2s to 1s Transition?
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Undergrad What is negative energy and how does it relate to the capacity for work?
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Graduate Non central potential and energy dependence
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Graduate Neutrino and Black Hole Interaction: Approaching, Passing, or Colliding?
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Undergrad Check 2 waave displacement equations please
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Graduate What is an observer, defined by QM?
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Graduate How can the Higgs Boson induce mass?
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Graduate Landau: Explaining the Definition of "Number of States with Energy
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Graduate Direct products and direct sums in QM
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Graduate Bell's derivation; socks and Jaynes
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Undergrad Trying to understand (E2 - p2c2 = m2c2 )
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Graduate Does getting which-way info introduce a phase difference?
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Graduate Electron oscillation between states
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Graduate Degeneracy of Hydrogen atomic orbitals with different l-values but same n-value
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Graduate Multi World Hypothesis and The Double Slit Experiment.
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Graduate Why isn't momentum a function of position?
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Graduate Why shall Quantum Mechanics accept Relativity?
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Graduate Schrodinger equation of particle in box
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Graduate Feynman diagrams for spin 1/2 particles
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Graduate How Does Entangled Photon Behavior Challenge Local Realism?
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Graduate Advanced undergrad/grad book for classical mechanics as macro limit of QM
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Graduate Why we only consider ''group'' symmetry but not general symmetry?
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Graduate How did Heisenberg derive his famous principle?
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Graduate What Happens to the Momentum Operator as Planck's Constant Approaches Zero?
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Graduate Theory of Everything or Troll?
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Undergrad Why Don't Electrons Spin Into the Center of the Nucleus?
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Graduate Why Vector Spaces? Origins & Benefits
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Undergrad What really causes electromagnetic induction/ the motor effect?
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Graduate Axiomatic derivation of [X,P]?
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Graduate When is not necesary to do surface ordering in the non-Abelian Stokes theorem?
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Graduate Calculating Statistical Operator $\hat{\rho}$
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Graduate How could a graviton mediate gravity at places such as a black hole?
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser - double-photon explanation
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Graduate First, second and third quantization formalisms
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Graduate Does antimatter go back in time?
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Graduate Photon's Probability of Passing Through Polaroid
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Graduate Clebsch Gordon coefficients for three spins
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Graduate Radial probability distribution (rpd)
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Undergrad What is the difference between Compton and Rayleigh scattering?
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Graduate Conceptual question from Atomic Structure
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Graduate Is there a quantum theory of magnetism?
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Graduate Application of Quantum mechanics
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Graduate Is space a thing or a relationship between existents?
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