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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Why is the complex number i essential in defining the momentum operator p?
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Graduate Why we do not consider the divergence due to mass-shell in QED?
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Graduate How Does the Born Series Expansion Translate to Spatial Representation?
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Graduate What is the meaning of a collinear photon in Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)?
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Graduate Guage symmetry - invariance under arbitrary phase change
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Graduate What does state mean in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Why are nuclear excited states always eigenstates of parity?
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Graduate Basic questions on collisions, particles
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Undergrad Can Light Travel Faster Than Speed of Light
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Graduate Coherence Domain in Living System
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Graduate What Determines Critical Boson Exchange Rates in Sub-Atomic Interactions?
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Graduate The Dirac delta in squere root of the absolute value
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Graduate Why does wave-function collapse occur?
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Graduate Faddov Ghosts and the non-Abelian Lagrangian
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Graduate If that other thing didn't break a rule in relativity, how about this?
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Graduate Time dependent Hamiltonians: features
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Graduate Question on particles/fields in QFT
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Graduate How Does Electron Degeneracy Allow White Dwarf Stars to Emit Light?
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Graduate Functions with operator valued arguments acting on eigenstates
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Graduate How can we solve IR divergences problem?
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Graduate Limit as distinguishable->indistinguishable
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Graduate QM focused Documentaries/lectures.
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Graduate About wavefunctions, their complex nature and their approximations?
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Graduate Examining Atoms: Violations of Thermodynamics and Relativity
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Graduate Can making a measurement change subsequent measurements?
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Graduate Global U(1) invariant of Dirac Lagrangian
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Graduate Neglecting terms in a Lagrangian
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Graduate Instanton configurations of an even anharmonic oscillator
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Graduate What is a photon in respect to electromagnetic waves?
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Graduate What's weird in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
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Graduate Kochen-Specker As Simple Corollary Of Gleasons Theroem
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Graduate Theoretical instantanous communicator
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Graduate Degenerate Matter energy level
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Undergrad Energy levels and quantum state
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Graduate Path Integral example, analysis of integral limits for K-G theory
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Graduate Origin in Inertial Frame for Spin-Orbit Coupling?
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Graduate What are the natural generalizations (if any) to Bose and Fermi statistics?
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Graduate Quantum without Identical Particles
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Graduate What is the difference between the Copenhagen Interpretation and Quantum Theory?
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Graduate Can Longer Waves Enhance the Quantum Eraser Effect at Home?
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Graduate Can a Photomultiplier Detect Single Photons for a DIY Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate What is U(1) Lie Group? | Abelian Lie Group | Unit Circle
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Graduate Why does attenuation coefficient decrease with increased energy?
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Graduate Exclusion Principle application to very large systems
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Graduate Two-Photon Experiment: Correlation, Factorization, and Polarization
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Undergrad Is there an equation for the energy loss of a photon in different media?
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Graduate Path integral and partition function
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Graduate Time derivative of an observable
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Undergrad What Are the Best Lasers for Optics Experiments?
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Graduate Is the S-matrix at high energies affected by time dilation?
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Graduate Bose-Einstein condensate of photons
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Graduate How can I ignore information in my wave function?
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Graduate Question about quantum tunneling?
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Graduate How Does a Laser Differ from a One-Atom Photon Amplifier?
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Graduate Question: How do symmetries and time evolution interact in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Probability amplitudes and photons
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Undergrad What is Information? Simplest Answer
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Undergrad The Distinction Between Fact and Opinion: Can it be Proven?
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Graduate Double slit in macroscopic world
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Graduate Is there anyting really entangled in Quantum Entanglement ?
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Graduate SHO Ladder Method missed states?
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Graduate Derive Schwarzschild Eq. without 4D Space/Tensors
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Graduate Is the Electromagnetic Field a Classical or Quantum Field?
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Graduate Examples of quantum mechanics predictions
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Graduate Wick's Theorem Proof (Peskins and Schroder)
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Graduate Wave function of a photon in a spherical cavity
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Graduate Solving the Schrodinger Equation: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
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Graduate All states are stationary, all observables are constant.
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Graduate Plane monochromatic wave is not physically realizable?
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Graduate Understanding the Identification Between SU(2) and O(3) Groups
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Graduate What Intuitive Insights Explain Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Question about evolution of a wave function
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Graduate Why this equation is an integral over all paths?
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Graduate Stern-Gerlach experiment when magnetic field varies from 0 to B
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Graduate Testing Quantum vs. Classical Physics Predictions of Which-Way Double Slit
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Graduate Propagator Operator: Clarifying H Acting & Function of (t-t')
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Graduate How Do Observation and Measurement Differ in Quantum Experiments?
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Graduate Representation Theory and Particle Theory
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Graduate Rest energy in Schrodinger's equation
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Undergrad Mass Spectrometry: Understanding Boron Isotopes
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Graduate Understanding Black Holes: Quantum Physics and Hawking Radiation Explained
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Graduate Problem with quantum entanglement of photons
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Graduate Radio waves emitted by an antenna - Bremsstrahlung radiation?
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Graduate How many photons are emitted by accelerating electron?
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Graduate Simple question about vector spaces and bases in QM
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High School Young Double Slit Experiment Help
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Graduate Electromagnetic attraction. How?
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Undergrad Very basic quantum mechanics questions
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Graduate How is it possible that 3d orbitals are more contracted than 4f?
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Graduate Extent of indeterminacy in the double-slit experiment
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Graduate Particle at the edge of nothing
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Graduate What Causes Light to Behave Differently in the Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Do have virtual particles gravity?
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Graduate How Are Probability Amplitude Arrows Drawn as Spirals in Feynman's Lectures?
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Graduate Covariant deriv of matrix valued field(srednicki)
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Graduate What physically causes the energy to make subatomic particles move?
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Graduate Question about the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Is Energy the Glue of Entanglement?
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Graduate Exploring the Relationship Between Wave Functions and the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Dirac algebra (contraction gamma matrices)
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