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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate A question for Sakurai's advanced qm
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Graduate MSbar Renormalisation + Gamma Functions
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Graduate Schroedinger equation and random walks
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Graduate Understand Grover's Algorithm: Classical Problem vs Quantum Solution
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Large Scale Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate The physical meaning of a phase factor
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Graduate Quantum systems without a classical limit
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Graduate Deutsch's algorithm vs classical algorithm
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Graduate Are all eigenstates of observables orthogonal?
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Undergrad Photoelectric effect minimum frequency
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Graduate Non-invariance under 2-Pi rotations?
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Graduate Translational movement of a signal atom in a vaccuum?
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Graduate Newbie Schrodinger equation question
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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Challenge the Conservation of Matter Law?
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Graduate Is it Information or Interaction that Observes ?
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Graduate What does it mean if something Transforms Covariantly ? (Quantum Field Theory)
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Graduate Can Multiple Electrons in a Double Slit System Interfere With Each Other?
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Graduate Why do q's form a complete commuting set of observables?
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Graduate What is Pauli's Exclusion Principle and How Does It Apply to Fermions?
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Do your thought has vibration?
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Graduate Some system can be normalized, some can not
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Undergrad General operational theory of fluorescence is
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Graduate Explaining Electron Emission and Photon Interactions in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Webpage title: Does Real Quantum Randomness Play a Role in Evolution?
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Graduate Maxwell's equations and Quantum Physics
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Graduate Transverse Susceptibility, and doubts about retarded/advanced Green's Functions
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Graduate Interference of electron waves in an atomic orbital
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Graduate Is Bohmian Mechanics Incompatible with Free Will and the Creation of Art?
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Graduate Eigenvalues and ground state eigenfunction of a weird Hamiltonian
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High School Does Quartz vibrate without applying voltage?
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Graduate How do particles and waves interact in the quantum world?
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Graduate Does Deleting Which Path Data Restore Quantum Interference?
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Graduate Quantum theory, consciousness and existence
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Undergrad Electron centripetal acceleration
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Graduate Unified field theory impossible?
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Graduate Energy spectrum from a hamiltonian
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Graduate Why doesn't wave function collapse contradict Schrodinger equation?
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Graduate Schrödinger equation for particle on a ring in a magnetic field
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Graduate Angular dependence in QM: Why is it present in the hydrogen atom?
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Graduate Faster than light in Quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Probability of hand through a wall vs an electron
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Graduate Does anyone have information on how exactly a atomic clock works?
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Undergrad When do I use these equations for calculating linewidths?
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Graduate Tensor products of representation - Weyl spinors and 4vectors
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Graduate Do Photons Have Electromagnetic Properties That Cause Attraction?
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Graduate Expectation value , a few questions
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Graduate Are Quantum Waves Tangible or Merely Mathematical Constructs?
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Graduate Question Regarding Harmonic Oscillator Eigenkets
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Graduate Can you define quantum mechanics in just one sentence?
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Graduate Many Paths = Huygens’ Principle?
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Graduate Can the Bohr Model Accurately Predict Electron Energy in a Magnetic Field?
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Graduate Probability Current: from plane wave to wave packet?
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Graduate Ehrenfest Theorem: Deriving Minus Sign in Commutator
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Graduate Weak force and axial vector coupling
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Graduate Quadrature Operators & Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate We make the world by participating in it
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Graduate Double Delta Function Potential
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Graduate Path integral for a particle coupled to a magnetic field
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Graduate Dirac Equation for H atom - what's the small r behaviour?
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Graduate Weak force vertex factor V - A
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Graduate What is the context of observation in this video?
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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Space's And Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Measurement disturbs the system.
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Graduate The Exponential of an infinite sum
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Graduate Quantum Model of an Atom with more than one electron
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Graduate Decomposing the direct sum as direct product
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Graduate Absorption of Light: IR, Visible & Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate Schrodinger's Equation & Measurement
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Graduate Wondering about quantum information and phase factors.
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Graduate Why QFT is asymptotic theory but still being very useful?
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Graduate A couple of questions about quantum mechanics.
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation: No Higher Powers of ψ
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Undergrad Properties of Light and its Relationship to Strength
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Graduate Schrödinger's equation and line width
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Graduate Why do the forces of nature act on each other?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement FTL Thought Experiment
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Graduate The real meaning of probability density?
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Graduate Why is the Spectrum of Ordinary Light Bulbs Continuous?
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Graduate Mass Defect & the Strong Force in Nucleons
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Graduate Can Particles Exist in Multiple Times Through Quantum Time Dilation?
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Graduate Does Spin Have Rotational Kinetic Energy?
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Graduate Ground state radiation question
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Graduate Modelling non ideal apparatus in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Energy level of hydrogen atom - with the electron replaced by a positron
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Graduate Six Superheavy Gluons: Fact or Fiction?
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Graduate A thought on Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Symmetrization Principle for Identical Particles with Different Spin
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Graduate How to do wick rotated surface int (srednicki ch75)
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Graduate Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Photoionization what will happen to compounds?
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Graduate Atomic Entanglement: Could Macro Objects Become Entangled?
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Graduate Opposite spin of entangled photons
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Graduate What would happen if entangled particles experienced the twin paradox scenario?
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Graduate Weyl ordering of the hamiltonian
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Graduate Light waves, photons; sound waves, phonons; water waves, hydrons ?
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Graduate Single slit interfernce with large particels
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Graduate Photon polarization and 1/2 wave plates
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Graduate Do atoms always exist even when unobserved?
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Graduate Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Can Length Contraction Cause Diffraction in Quantum Mechanics?
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