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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Momentum Measurement Confusion
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Graduate Canonical Commutation Relations: Why?
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Graduate Quantum Wave Collapse: Does Consciousness Play a Role?
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Graduate Quantum consciousness is ruining my life
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Graduate Wavefunction collapse and dirac delta functions
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Graduate Can Photons Undergo Einstein-Bose Condensation?
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Graduate How to determnine quantum numbers of hybridized orbitals?For
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Graduate Grassmann number and anti-commuting c-number?
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Graduate Do particles really emerge from the vacuum at random?
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Undergrad Why isn't kinetic energy considered a fundamental force like the other four?
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Graduate How are probabilistic equations of physics usually formulated?
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Graduate Path integrals and foundations of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Identity Operator Proving without Bra-Ket Notation
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Graduate Relation between coherent and Fock states of light
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Graduate Does wave function of an entangled particle collapse instantly?
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Undergrad How does tourmaline produce negative ion ?
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Graduate Quark decay and particle materialization
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Graduate Shankar's principles of quantum mechanics solutions
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Graduate Must we add QED correction to perturbative QCD?
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Graduate Additional understanding needed on proof involving Hermitian conjugates
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Graduate Is Faster-Than-Light Motion Possible According to E=mc^2?
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Graduate Angular momentum in bracket notation
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Graduate Change of Basis: Converting Wavefunction from S_z to S_x
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Graduate Are Coherent Superposition Particles Considered Conservative Systems?
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Graduate Intuitive Expl. of Gaussian Wave Packets & $\Delta x \Delta p = \frac{\hbar}{2}$
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Undergrad Electron & Neutron Absorbing Photons: Charge Explained
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Graduate Anyone familiar with Srednicki ch72?
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Graduate How is momentum conserved when a particle/antiparticle pair is created?
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Graduate Electromagnetic field( though could be any field) produced by a quantum particle
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Graduate Local superdeterministic hidden variables - in Physical Review Letters
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Undergrad Does an Electron Attract or Absorb a Photon?
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Graduate To find the linear momentum of a function
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Graduate Exploring Non-Local Dynamics in Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime Manifold
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Graduate Massless Particles from Massive Theory: Understanding the m->0 Limit
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Graduate Questions about rigid rotating dumbbell molecule
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Graduate How long does it take an electric dipole to emit a photon?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and Useful Information
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Graduate Neutrinos faster than light speed? What do you guys think?
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Graduate Born oppenheimer approximation vs adiabatic approximation
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Graduate Interference between the particles
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Graduate Dirac Delta from Continous Eigenfunctions
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Graduate Action-at-a-distance in Sideways EPR-Bell?
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Graduate Why the renormalization group flow depends only the basic symmetry,but not Lagrangian
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Graduate Energy from schrödinger equation
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Graduate Dipole approximation in acceleration form
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Graduate Can Single Photon Measurements Reveal Quantum Interference or Particle Behavior?
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Graduate WOW [Possible] Non-local neutrinos at CERN
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Graduate X-ray diffraction in the presence of electric potential
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Graduate Trying to understand Schrodinger's Equation
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Graduate Explaining Intermolecular Forces at the Quantum Level
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Graduate Charged particle and virtual photons
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Graduate Could High Energy Virtual Particles Destroy a Starship?
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Graduate Bell's Inequality: Must we ditch locality, realism or something else?
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Graduate Outer product in Hilbert space
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High School Don't bite my head off here right away, I'm only a high school
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Graduate Exploring the Destructive Interference of Probability Waves in Quantum Mechanics
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High School Understand Atoms: Get Answers to Your Questions
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Graduate How to represent operator in matrix form
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Graduate What Are the Best Conceptual Resources for Understanding Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Why does a photon emit discrete frequencies of light?
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment With Detectors
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Graduate Special conditions of a wavefunction?
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Graduate Understanding Ehrenfest Theorem & Its Implications in QM
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Graduate How Does a Harmonic Oscillator Behave When Traveling at Constant Velocity?
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Graduate Is there a connection between a particle's momentum and kinetic energy?
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Graduate How can the uncertainty principle and relativity coexist?
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Graduate Can Gravitons Convey Information Faster Than Light?
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Graduate Equivalent Expressions: Solve Energy Spectrum Transcendental Equation
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Graduate Entanglement Between Different Types of Particles?
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Graduate Logic gates in excitonic single quantum dot qubits
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Graduate A particular representation of gamma matrices
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Graduate The Flash quantum tunneling vibration problem.
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Graduate Virtual Particles and Hawking radiation
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Graduate How Does the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Allow Specific State Transitions?
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Graduate Why are plane waves not possible representations of states in quantum theory?
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Graduate Infinite Well Problem - Time Independent Schrodinger's Equation
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Graduate Hi Folks,I am currently reading Brian Greene's 'The Fabric of the
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and expectation values.
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Graduate Schrödinger's cat, no superposition
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Graduate Path Integral in first and second quantization
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Graduate Lie Derivative and acceleration
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Graduate When does quantum mechanics turn into Newtonian mechanics?
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Graduate Is Entanglement related to Gravitational Fields?
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Graduate What is application of nonlinear sigma model?
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Graduate What is the Meaning of Hilbert Space?
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Graduate How do I move from QM to QFT and beyond?
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Graduate Orthogonal Eigenfunctions (Landau Lifshitz)
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Graduate How Does Quantum Indeterminacy Relate to the Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Is there such thing as an anti-photon?
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Graduate Quantum Mecanics unifing with General Relativity in 5D
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Graduate How Are Photonic Crystals Analogous to Matter Waves?
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Graduate How did Niels Bohr obtain ΔT •ΔE > h?
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Graduate What are eigenvalues and eigenstates in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Why/how does energy change when measuring position?
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Undergrad What is Planck's Quantization of Energy?
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Graduate New quantum energy storage proposed
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Graduate Relative intensities of Zeeman components
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Graduate Trace of higher powers of Density Matrix
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation of 3D objects
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Graduate Adjoint of a Bra-Ket: Definition & Derivation
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