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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Do expectation values vary with time?
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Graduate Stationary electron broglie wavelength
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Graduate What is the meaning of the imaginary part of the plane wave function
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Graduate Relations between classical and quantum time-evolution of fields
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Undergrad Why Does Electron Energy Have Negative Values?
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Undergrad Planck's Constant, what does it mean?
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Graduate Why do Majorana particles occur?
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Graduate Do SUSY particles have antiparticles counterparts?
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Graduate Interference terms in particle spin
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Graduate What Are the Key Differences Between Quantum and Classical Correlation?
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Graduate Unlocking Schrödinger's Equation Through Multivariable Calculus
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Graduate Quant.Entanglement: Comparing Superposition Spin and Unknown Spin
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Graduate Eigenvectors, spinors, states, values
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Graduate HOW can entanglement be observed experimentally?
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Graduate Calculating the expectation of a quantity using wavefunctions
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Graduate Question about planck lengths/quantized space and expanding space?
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Graduate Solving schrodinger, reflection coefficient
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Graduate COMPLETE Derivation of Heisenberg and Hubbard Models?
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Graduate What is the difference between a wavefunction and a state in quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Can Someone Explain the Ac Stark Shift in Layman's Terms
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Graduate I am looking for an explanation of heavy electrons
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Graduate Bosons and Fermions in a rigorous QFT
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Graduate Can Quantum Chaos Theory Unravel the Mysteries of Biology?
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Graduate The Limitations of the Dirac Sea in Explaining Particle Motion
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Make Teleportation Believable in Fiction?
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Graduate Sackur-Tetrode - why Planck's constant?
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser and other oddities + their meaning
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Graduate My diabolical scheme for Quantum Immortality
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Graduate Torque-Free Precession in Classical & Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Construction of Hamiltonian for interacting optical fields
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Graduate Technical difficulties in calculating hydrogen probabilities
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Undergrad Converting Uncertainty in Millimeters to Meters for Radius Calculation
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Graduate Understanding GHZ Entanglement
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Graduate Path Cancellation: Can a Particle Come From Point A?
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Graduate Are boson fields the adjoint of the fermionic field they couple to?
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Undergrad Why world looks chaos on atomic scale but it is uniform on higher scale?
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Graduate How Can We Understand the Hilbert Space in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate What's the Verdict on "Quant-ph/9905077"?
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Graduate Writing Product States: When to Use a Sum?
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Graduate Other means of quantum teleportation.
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Graduate How fundamental are complex numbers in quantum theory?
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Graduate Expectation Values: Formula & Derivation
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Graduate Is inner product a measurement in quantum computation?
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Graduate Understanding Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate What the heck is meant by Pauli force/effect ?
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Graduate Can Entangling Separate Photon Pairs Affect Previously Measured Photons?
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Graduate Generating function of n-point function
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Graduate Spin 1/2 and 720 degree rotation
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics to a Newcomer
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High School Slit pattern, vertical or horizontal?
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Graduate How Does Reflection Affect Photon Phase Shift in Quantum Experiments?
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Graduate In electron/photon interactions does the handedness of the photon matter?
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Graduate What Causes Quantum Locking in Levitation Videos?
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Graduate Questions in Weinberg The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol 1
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Graduate Can changes in spring constant affect the eigenstates of a harmonic oscillator?
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High School Getting Started with Quantum Mechanics: Advice for High School Students
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Graduate Plot Real & Imaginary Dielectric Function: Lorentz Model
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Graduate What Is the Wavelength of the Earth According to De Broglie's Equation?
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Graduate How can reality be non local and its expression be local.
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Graduate Where does the radial probability of an electron equation come from?
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Graduate What makes a particle distinguishable from another one? It seems, two
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Graduate How Does Proximity to Other Atoms Affect Electron Orbit Transitions?
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Graduate Can Randomness and Causality Coexist Logically?
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Graduate Experimentally, how well tested is Born's rule?
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Graduate The Singularity: A Fundamental State of Energy Before the Big Bang?
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Graduate Does the weak force violate conservation of charge?
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Graduate Density matrix elements, momentum basis, second quantization
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Graduate How can we expand product of two currents into series?
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Graduate Does Energy Redistribution in Wave Interference Happen Superluminally?
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Graduate Looking for: Schrödinger equation in terms of phase and modulus
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Graduate Why is Hadronic Vacuum Polarization a Matrix Element of Current Products?
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Graduate Relation between spontaneous emission, absorption and re-emission
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Graduate Mystery of the lost degree of freedom in a gauge theory
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Graduate Is stokes vector can be a quantum state?
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Graduate Can a Temporary 'Mark' Affect the Double Slit Interference Pattern?
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Graduate Scattering - quantum electrodynamics
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Graduate Bell's Theorem - Easy explained
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Graduate Building a Lagrangian out of Weyl spinors
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Graduate Tensor Operators: Find an Accessible Textbook & Explanations
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Graduate Delayed double slit experiment
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Graduate Perturbation of 2D Oscillator along one axis
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Graduate Aspect's experiment, bell's inequality, neutrino faster than 'c'.
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High School The Requirement of integer orbitals
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Graduate Mass/Energy of W Boson: Where Does it Go?
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Graduate Can a potential act in a small region of spacetime?
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Graduate Is the Hydrogen Atom Stable in Relativistic Quantum Theory?
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Graduate Path Integral/Canonical Quantization of Gauge Theories
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Graduate Quantum entanglement,Is it possible
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Graduate Is The Dual Nature of Mass Affecting Astronaut Brains in Space?
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Undergrad When electrons jump why photon
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Graduate Why isn’t time-dependent Schrodinger equation separable?
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Graduate Create Boson: Know Pion vs Other?
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Graduate Breit equation/relativistic QM and simplifications
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Graduate How Quantum Theory Explains Human Consciousness
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Graduate Can I assume this is a travelling wave?
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Graduate How can a particle have infinite positions in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What are the states and equations of the Gluon Octet in SU(3)?
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Graduate How to debunk new age Quantum physics crankery
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Graduate Question on quantum entanglement mechanism
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Graduate Some questions regarding decoherence
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