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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Chaotic quantum billiards on a torus.
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Graduate Conservation of energy after measurement
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Graduate What does show solutions to the schroedinger eqn mean?
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Graduate Does the Uncertainty Principle Make Precise Momentum Measurement Impossible?
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Graduate Is the vectorial representation of the Lorentzian Group unitary?
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Graduate Why there is 2[itex]\pi[/itex] in every dirac delta function
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement - Two Places at Once
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Graduate Quantum Interference in tunneling electron transport?
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Graduate Question about electron diffraction
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and Minimal coupling of Dirac field
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Undergrad Can anyone explain energy levels of an Atom?
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Graduate How to model a classical bath?
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Graduate How Can You Determine the Wavefunction ψ(r) from Electron Density |\psi(r)|^2?
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Graduate Time-dependent perturbation theory
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Graduate Proof that micro black holes can't exist?
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Undergrad What determines if the photoelectric effect occurs?
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Graduate Photon Emission & Atom Entanglement: Spin & Beyond
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics book suggestions
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Graduate Is there a way to derive Planck's Law without using a cavity?
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Graduate Looking for the name of a process.
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Graduate Quantum mechanical coupling/excitation
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Graduate Why in two dimension space many QTFtheory become renormalizable?
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Graduate Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment
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Graduate Too few examples to explain The principles of quantum mechanics by dirac.
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Graduate Time development of a wavefunction
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Graduate Do entangled systems have parts?
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Undergrad Single-Particle Interference for BIG objects-what does it mean for a lay person?
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Graduate In Electron Spin Resonance, Does Spin Up Have More Energy Than Spin Down?
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Graduate How are atoms entangled and can it be done remotely?
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
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Graduate Squeezed coherent states- amplitude and phase
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Graduate Ground state oscillation freq. of H2?
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator problem
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Graduate Range of validity of the Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Is Spacetime Truly Smooth or Discrete?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle discrete operators
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Graduate Confusion (4) from Weinberg's QFT.(Time reversal))
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Graduate An Experiment Showing Entanglement Communication into the Future
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Graduate Interference of Probability Waves: A Quantum Physics Intro
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Graduate A few questions on Entanglement.
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Graduate Is quantum field theory the return of the ether?
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Graduate A Little Trick for bra-ket notation over the Reals
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Graduate Representations of Symmetry Operators
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Graduate Can Cryonics and Bose-Einstein Condensates Work Together?
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Graduate Continuous EM fields vs. fixed freq photons
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Graduate Carl Jung’s synchronicity and ‘quantum entanglement’
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Graduate Ehrenfest theorem and the hydrogen atom
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Graduate Integrating infinitesimal conformal transformations
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Graduate Fermi Golden Rule: Conservation of Energy
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Graduate Equation problem. How to elimintate t?
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Graduate Confusion (2) from Weinberg's QFT.(Little group))
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Number of different ways, particle with E and delta_E.
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Graduate Degeneracy in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Synchronized Bosons and Entropy.
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Graduate Has Hawking Radiation Been Detected in Black Holes?
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Graduate Uncertainty and The Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Space: Definition & Examples by de la Madrid (2005)
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Graduate Is Quantum Probability Calculation of |e-ix|^2 Correct?
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Graduate Is the Universe Really 3D or Are Forces and Waves 2D?
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Undergrad What's in the schrodinger wave equation?
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Graduate Schrodinger equation and atoms
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Graduate Deriving expressions for creation/annihilation operator
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Graduate Can Anti-Energy Exist and What Would It Mean for Our Understanding of Physics?
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Graduate Empty spaces and virtual particles in atom
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Graduate Level degeneracy of the transverse ising model
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Undergrad How do electrons behave in resistive circuits and semiconductors?
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Graduate Is the cosmological constant equivalent to vacuum energy?
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Graduate Logical inconsistency in standard model of entanglement
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Graduate Applicablilty of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation
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Graduate Questions on Chapter 67: Understanding the Limit and Contact Terms
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Graduate Qualifications of an Observer
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Graduate Virtual Particles: Creation & Destruction in 10-43 Seconds?
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Graduate Vacuum Energy Form (aside from gamma rays)
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Graduate Spooky Action at a Distance / Tachyons?
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Graduate Fundamental Forces and Lie Groups
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Graduate Can entangled photons transmit information faster than the speed of light?
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Graduate Does Bell's Theorem Rule Out Determinism?
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Graduate How does a gauge field lead to charge superselection?
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Graduate D-Wave - first commercial quantum computer
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Graduate Explanation of Multiverse Past in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate The virtue particle is mass on-shell or off-shell?
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Graduate Magnetic Precession and Photon Absorption
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Graduate Explain phase change of an EMW in terms of photons.
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Graduate Continuous dual space and conjugate space
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Graduate Paradox: The infinite square well vs. the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Adiabatic approxmation, estimate of d\phi/dx
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Graduate Angular Mumentum: Question for my exam tomorrow
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Graduate Are there 'complex' numbers in classical mechanics?
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Graduate How Do Massless Photons Influence Atomic Repulsion in Quantum Electrodynamics?
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Graduate Paper presentation on Quantum Computers
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Graduate Pair production: Has it been observed experimentally?
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Graduate Does Quantum Entanglement Imply Faster-Than-Light Interaction?
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Graduate Heisenberg picture describes emission, Schroedinger picture does not
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Graduate Why does the l quantum number depend on n?
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Graduate Delay of virtual particle pair annihilation
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Graduate Callan-Symanzik equation in dimensionally regularized scheme
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Graduate Is the 'Bare Lagrangian' in Counterterms the Same as in Feynman's Method?
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Graduate Question on nuclear magnetic resonance and Larmor frequency
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Graduate Finding a Closed-Form Formula for the Commutator [J_-^n, J_+^k]
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