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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Are super-operators always writable in a basis independent form?
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Graduate Debunking the Existence and Duration of Virtual Particles
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Graduate What Does h.c. Signify in Quantum Mechanics Formulas?
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Graduate Can Free Particle Have Sharp Energy?
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Graduate How is spin rotation measured?
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Graduate How to arrive at Bessel function solution to 1D polynomial potential
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Graduate Why Hermitian instead of self-adjoint?
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Graduate Why are identical particles indistinguishable?
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Graduate Question on observer of double-split experiment
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Graduate Quantum mechanics question regarding jam.
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Graduate Quantum physics in three sentences?
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Graduate Quantum communication with extraterrestrials
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Graduate Uncountable infinite dimensional Hilbert space
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
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Graduate Wave Function Collapse: Atom's Non-Stable State
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High School Does the Principal Quantum Number Refer to the Electron Shell?
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Undergrad Comparing Uncertainty of Two Results in Conclusion
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Graduate Experimental confirmation of indistinguishability of identical particles?
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Graduate Fermion-Boson Question: Why Different Positions?
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Graduate Amplitude - photon correspondence
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Graduate On spinor representations and SL(2,C)
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Graduate What should we use to express free particle in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Understanding De Broeglie Wavelength & Electron Orbits
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Graduate Grilling the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Is quantum physics a growing field in the future?
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Graduate Hawking Radiation's Virtual Particles?
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Graduate Explanation for the Fountain effect in superfluids
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Graduate Why saying Quantum Mechanics is pillar of QFT?
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Graduate Relativistic correction to quantum mechanical system
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Graduate Hamiltonian describing energy transfer to bloch Electron from EM field
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Graduate Understanding Spin and Magnetic Field in Electrons: Explained
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Graduate Landau quantization of cyclotron orbit
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Graduate Can you make a definition of velocity in QM ?
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Graduate 2 Q's on Quantum Stat Mech: why only eigenvalues, why dE
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Graduate Uncertainty principle, virtual particle pairs and energy
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Graduate Question about Quantum Computers
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Undergrad Who First Plotted the Spectral Radiancy Curve and When?
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Graduate Probability waves - instant infinite extent?
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Graduate Eigenvaules and quantum numbers
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Graduate Light polarization vs photons spin
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Graduate SU(N) symmetry in harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Question related to quantization of the magnetic field
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Graduate I need just ONE analytic solution to the time-dependent Schrodinger Equation.
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Graduate Why should Hawking radiation decrease a black hole's size?
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Graduate Quantum efficiency as a function of wavelength
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Graduate Schrödinger's cat contradiction
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Graduate How to Normalize and Integrate a Wave Function in the Range 0 to L?
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Graduate Chrial gauge theories and anomalies(Srednicki ch75-76)
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Graduate Box normalization of plane wave
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Graduate Question about measurement and unitary dynamics
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Graduate Virtual particles colliding with other virtual particles
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Graduate What is the Principle of Cluster Decomposition in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Confused by Feynman sum over histories
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Graduate Does Ward Identity in QCD has origin of U(1) or SU(3) symmetry?
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Undergrad Electron energy shells-where do they come from
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Graduate Commutation of Hamiltonian and time evolution operator
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Graduate Do particles have spatial extent or are they point-like?
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Graduate Normalization of a wavefunction
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Graduate Is Quantum Physics Non-Locality According to Einstein, Podolski, and Rosen?
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Graduate Bohm's Hidden Variable Model: Distinguishing from Einstein's Vision
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Graduate Is there evidence for a local hidden variable model in quantum physics?
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Graduate I know that renormalisation has to do with getting rid of unwanted
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Graduate Relaxation Rate for Single Qubit Decoherence Time
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High School Difference and benefits of qubits compared to regular bits?
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Graduate Trying to understand Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in a physical sense
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Graduate Choas and the bridge from Classical to Quantum physics
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Graduate Can someone explain what a propagator is and does?
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Graduate How do you visualize the spin of electron in your head?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: What is Quanta?
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Graduate Why is there a forbidden energy gap in solid state electronics?
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Graduate 2nd order perturbation calculation for a system involving spins
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Graduate Why is it path integral formalism being a ''quantization'' procedure?
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Graduate Virtual Photons over Large Distances
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Graduate Understanding Interference Between Spin States
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Graduate Is there a limit to information storage on the surface of a black hole?
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Graduate Loophole-free quantum steering
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Graduate Communication via Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate The science behind the conversion of particles to other particles
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Graduate Observer independent collapses?
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Graduate Is Feynman's QFT Unitarity Issue Resolved?
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Graduate Bohr Model and wave-particle duality
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Undergrad Explaining Electromagnetic Fields: Mass and Distance
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Graduate Quantum Information and Brain neurons
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Graduate Unitary Transformation: Proving ¯UU = 1 in Dirac's Text
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Undergrad Question About Bohr's Quantified Shell Model
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Graduate Matrix elements of the secular determinant for trial functions?
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Graduate Is the Expectation Value of Momentum for a Superposition of Sine Functions Zero?
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Graduate Energy time uncertainty principle
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Graduate Do the eigenfunctions for the position operator form an orthogonal set?
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Graduate What Are the Consequences of Breaking U(1) in Electroweak Theory?
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Graduate I must be discomprehending the Rutherford scattering cross section.
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Graduate Did John Wheeler Really Believe Consciousness Causes Collapse?
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Graduate Quantum computers and modelling a quantum computer on a classical computer
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Undergrad How do electrons become excited in an atom
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Graduate Lack of quantum effects at higher temperatures
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Graduate What if a particle had infinite mass?
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Graduate A thought on Quantum mechanics
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Graduate Ward-Takahashi identities from symmetry
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High School Why Do Square Holes in Bamboo Slats Create Round Light Patterns?
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Graduate Symmetric and Antisymmetric WF
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