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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool?
Graduate Schrödinger's equation to Dirac's
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Graduate Displacement Operator: Explaining Dirac's Equality
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Graduate Scalar field as quantum operator.
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Graduate Is a finite function with finite Fourier transform possible?
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Graduate How does the commutator of fields relate to causality?
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Graduate Quantum Coherence in Transmembrane Proteins?
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Graduate Calculating the energy-momentum tensor for Maxwell Lagrangian
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Undergrad What causes the polarization effect in optics?
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Graduate Can we understand neutrinos as information?
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Graduate Not following one step for Ehrenfest's theorem
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Graduate On the complementarity principle
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Graduate Scope of Hilbert Space of a System?
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Graduate Can increasing the potential width α decrease the coupling constant λ?
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Graduate A 'Classical' object behaving Quantum?
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Graduate Standing Waves and Radiation Emission
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Graduate Quantum numbers in wikipedia's table
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Graduate Lorentz Transformation of Fields
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Graduate Commuting of Operators: Particle in Box in 1D with H & H1
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Graduate Multi-Photon Laser Output: Independence & Tensor Product
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Graduate What is so special about quantum entanglement?
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Graduate Second Quantization: Motivation & Field Operators
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Graduate What other experimental evidence exists for entanglement?
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Graduate Why Planck Scale? Reasons & String Theory
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Graduate Why the carrying force fields must be the fields of Boson particles?
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Graduate Density matrix's non-diagonal components
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Graduate Can anyone recommend a text on quantum mechanics based on commutators?
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Graduate Quantum Eraser and Its Implications
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Graduate Quantum Levitation: Examining Effects of Aerogel
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Graduate Verification of probabilities for various states
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Graduate How do you integrate the Hopf term in 2+1 dimensions?
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Graduate Zeeman effect, something I'm not understanding, about history
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Graduate I want to understand positive operator valued measures in QM
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Graduate Questions regarding a paradox.
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Graduate Why Can't Free-Particle Wave Functions Be Normalized Over Their Entire Range?
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Graduate Quantum control of a looped beam.
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Graduate Normalization of a free particle quantum state
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Graduate Why wave function should goto 0 f faster than 1/sqrt(x) at infinity
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Graduate Photon Average Energy in a Cavity Resonator
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Graduate Learning Dirac Notation: Writing Hamiltonian for 3 States
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Graduate How Are Planck Time and the Expression \(\sqrt{\frac{\hbar c^5}{G}}\) Related?
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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Allow for a Time Operator?
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Graduate Is the Uncertainty Principle affected by the number of particles in a system?
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Undergrad Two hydrogen atom with same spin can form H_2?
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Graduate What is an Observer in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Proving Shouten identity in QFT
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Graduate Classically predicted ionisation energy of H
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Graduate Wavepacket Dispersion and how this links to particle behaviour
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Graduate The quantomic oscillator's amplitude
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Graduate Why does Lagrangian in QFT only include first order derivative of field?
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Graduate Understanding the Significance of Eigenvalues in Quantum Mechanics and Physics
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Graduate What corresponds to a static field in QFT
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Graduate How Does Polarization Relate to Photon Degeneracy?
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Graduate Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principal and the definition of randomness
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Graduate What is the physical system that follows the Pauli exclusion principle?
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and wireless electricity
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Graduate 1st order pertubation on 2 level system
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Graduate Could Zero-Point Energy Be Weaponized?
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Graduate 1st order Pertubation energy and wavefunction
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Undergrad Light intensity and polarization
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Graduate Position and Momentum Operators
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Graduate If all states are stationary, what causes atoms to radiate then?
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Graduate My personal criticism to Quantum theory and Human conscience
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Graduate Fine structure correction in H atom
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Graduate 2 Time Dimension in the Quantum Realm?
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Graduate Why Consider Our Position Between Past and Future in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Solution of Schrodinger equation for free electron
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High School Does light lose any any energy in a vacuum?
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Graduate Need a book that explains linear vector space
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Graduate Pesking & Schroeder Eqn 3.18 (Lorentz algebra)
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Graduate Updates on Penrose Quantum Mirror Experiment
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Graduate Pauli Matrices: Calculating Expression
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Graduate Misunderstanding about measuring the spin of the electron
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Graduate Scattering theory - Regular solution
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Graduate Is light a photon or a wave? (concrete question)
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Graduate Help Solve a Puzzling Two-Level Atom Problem
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Graduate Are Units Truly Fundamental in Physics According to Duff's Theory?
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Graduate Do Gravitons Attract Other Gravitons?
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Graduate Can neutrons be used to stablize other particles?
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Graduate Is the following correct about virtual particles
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Graduate Hamiltonian with position spin coupling
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Graduate How Virtual Particles Give Rise to the electromagnetic force
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Graduate Wigner Matrix or Wigner D-Matrix?
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Undergrad Do Electrons Behave Like Bar Magnets?
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Graduate Poker Entanglement: Is Quantum Mechanics the Key to Winning?
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Graduate Electronic Excitation: Absorbing and Re-emitting Photons
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Graduate Entanglement & GR: Can We Measure Universe Info?
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Graduate Feynman's QED: Is it Still Relevant Today?
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Graduate Are wave functions and quantum waves synonyms?
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Undergrad LS Coupling Scheme Explained - Get Help Now
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Undergrad Alpha Decay from Uranium: Electrical or Strong Nuclear Force?
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Graduate A Bell Theorem with no locality assumption?
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Graduate New (apparent) confirmation of virtual particles.
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Graduate Is biological life a product of a probability wave
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Graduate Quantum fluctuations and momentum
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Graduate Virtual particles and quantum fluctuation
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Undergrad Phonon vs Photon: What's the Difference?
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Graduate Physical significance of normalizing a wave function?
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Graduate Quantization of vector field in the Coulomb gauge
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Graduate The double slit and wave particle nature.
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Graduate What is the definition of particle(s) in QM?
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