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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Energies of a particle in a box vs. free particle?
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Graduate Orbital Angular Momentum Origin
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Graduate Photon classical or nonclassical object?
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Graduate Semiclassical descriptions of atom-light interaction
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Graduate Is there empty space with null energy?
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Graduate Rotational Quantum Number J: Understanding Its Role in Microwave Spectroscopy
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Graduate Question (not homework): Quantum phenomena and the Macroscopic world
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Graduate How is the length of a particle in a box polyene determined?
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Graduate How fast do wave packets typically spread out?
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Graduate Is there such a thing as an anti-gluon?
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling and Deuterium Fusion
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Graduate Purely electric quantum tunneling fusion
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Graduate Can You Change Photon Polarization Without Affecting Entanglement?
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Undergrad Do Electrons Exhibit Electromagnetic Fields Like Photons?
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Graduate Total nuclear spin of deuteron
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Graduate How Do Operators and Integrals Connect in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Bell's Theorem and the detector
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Graduate Helps on understanding different representation transformations
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Graduate Renormalization Group for dummies
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Graduate Entanglement/Nonlocality question
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Graduate Why triplet state |1,0> is considered parallel ?
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Undergrad Uncertainty principle and particle accelerators
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Graduate How Can a Beginner Start Learning Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Entanglement: Implications and Applications
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Graduate What is the definition of integration on operators?
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Graduate Understanding the Scully and Yoon-Ho Experiment: Interference in D0
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Graduate Can Entangled Photons Be Used for Instantaneous Morse Code Communication?
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between Energy and Frequency
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Graduate Does the Quantum Zeno Effect Contradict the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Why can't the wavefunction equal infinity?
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Graduate Derivation of Fowler-Nordheim current density
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Graduate Infinite Energy beneath Quantum Vacuum?
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Graduate Understanding Force on an Atom in the Heisenberg Picture of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Number of components of Dirac spinor in arbitrary dimensions.
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Graduate Relationship between electron and quark charge
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Graduate Wigner's Theorem/Antiunitary Transformation
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Graduate C is infinity thus electrons can be in two places at once
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Graduate Observables and Commutation (newbie questions?)
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Graduate Why not diffeomorphism group representation theory?
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Graduate Photon interaction during refraction
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Graduate Gauge invariant Lagrangian: unique?
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Graduate What is the Landau pole and how does it relate to the coupling constant in QED?
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Undergrad This question may not come in the bracket of quantum mechanics but
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Graduate What is symmetry breaking in the Standard Model?
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Graduate The Double Slit Experiment: The weirdness of quantam physics
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Graduate Does the hup essentially represent the wall or curtain of the universe?
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Graduate Is uncertainty inherent in QM?
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Graduate Small=high mass at quantum level, but big=high mass at classical level. Why?
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Undergrad What actually happens when a photon strikes an atom?
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Graduate How do we arrive at Q = -1 from T3 and Y?
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Graduate 1/f noise at zero frequency or dc
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Graduate Demonstration of Dirac equation covariance
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Graduate Ampere's law with quantum mechanics
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Graduate Hong-Ou-Mandel Effect: Explaining the "-" Sign
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Graduate Can Slater Determinant Explain the Difference Between Bosons and Fermions?
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Graduate Do the wave equations need to be modified for obstacles?
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Undergrad Electromagnetic and strong force
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Undergrad Exploring Energy Levels and Electron Configurations in Atomic Models
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Graduate Does the Quantum Observer Effect Imply Consciousness Influences Reality?
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Graduate Do we really need physical/real waves to explain single particle interference?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle and information theory
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Graduate Is photon emission possible without electrons changing energy levels?
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Graduate Quantum Computing gate matricies
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Graduate UN-entanglement? is that possible?
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Graduate Dynamics in the heizenberg picture
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Graduate What is the true significance of Quantum Information Theory?
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Graduate Increase in amplitude of an electron wave
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Graduate Why Isn't the Strong Nuclear Force Unified with Electroweak in GUT Models?
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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Become Real Under the Weisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Quantum field theory and the renormalization group
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Graduate Thermionic emission at same temperature
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Graduate Must the State |O,ready> Be Orthogonal to |O,reads up> and |O,reads down>?
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Undergrad What Is the Uncertainty in the Gradient of My Linear Graph?
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Graduate Hydrogwn atom electron probability
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Graduate My bra-ket calcs seem to be going wrong - help
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Graduate Can Someone Please Explain Hermitian Conjugates To Me?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Quantum Eraser - Help Needed!
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Graduate What are the energy states of a hydrogen atom in a B field?
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Undergrad What are the differences between the two graphs of electron probability density?
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Graduate Exchange splitting of energy levels of a system?
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Graduate Where is the arrow of time if every decision is essentially instant?
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Graduate Deriving Stationary State Wave Functions for a Free Particle on a Ring
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Graduate QFT as pilot-wave theory of particle creation and destruction
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Graduate Questions about the delayed choice quantum erasure experiment
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Graduate Nonlocality and Compactified Dimensions
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Graduate Ok, suppose Macro-entanglement is possible
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Graduate The Mystery of Quantum Entanglement: Feynman's View on the Double Slit Pattern
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Graduate On Thought Experiments: Question
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Graduate Can Time Crystals Redefine Our Understanding of Time and Space?
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Graduate Understanding spin, spinors, and rotations
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Graduate Spherical harmonics and wavefunctions
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Graduate Zeeman effect - spin orbit coupling
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Graduate Quantum mechanics without wavefunctions
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Graduate Ref for single electron double slit experiments
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Graduate How does Perturbation theory account for interactions in QED?
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Graduate Wave function collapse with Young's double slits.
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Graduate Degenerate Perturbation Theory
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Undergrad What Are the Force Carriers in the Four Fundamental Forces of Physics?
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Undergrad Energy of light ( wave or particle)
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