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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Planck's quantum theory question
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Graduate What is generating functional and vacuum-to-vacuum boundary conditions in QFT?
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Graduate Weinberg quick question on chapter 2 zero mass
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Graduate Weinberg Chapter 2 Little Group Q
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Graduate Infinitely divisible vs finitely divisible time
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Graduate Carbon energy transition levels
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Graduate Photons from black body spectra
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Graduate Can Scalars Represent Quantum States Effectively?
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Graduate Using Quark-Gluon Plasma as an Energy source
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Undergrad What does it mean, Electron absorbs a photon ?
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Wave Function Symmetry
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Graduate Do speeds of propagating of all interactions have the same value c?
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Graduate Accelerating electron emmits a photon?
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Graduate Low energy photon - electron collision
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Graduate I am new to this quantum world,just read about fields in this
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Graduate Where are Pilot Waves located?
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Graduate Is the Wave Function of a Super Cold Gas Different than at Higher Temperatures?
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Graduate Confusion (1) from Weinberg's QFT.(unitary representation)
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Undergrad Motivations for plum pudding model (advanced)
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Graduate Pair Production and Mass Energy Equivalence
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Graduate Are QM operators also tensors?
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Graduate QFT: Why Kronecker Symbol \delta_j^i is Basis Invariant?
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Graduate Could Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Apply Without Instruments?
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Graduate How does the electron's vanishing act work?
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Graduate Why Is Wave Function Collapse Unnecessary in Bohmian Interpretation?
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Graduate The Wave Equation: Schrodinger, Physical Interpretation, Scope & Limitations
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Graduate Is the Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Possible with a Person Instead of a Cat?
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Graduate Could observation determine the existence of mass in particles?
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Undergrad Behavior of Photons During Reflection.
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Graduate What is Configuration Space in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How were electron density clouds established?
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Graduate In one dimension there are no degenerate bound states?
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Graduate Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Wavefunction collapse on degenerate states
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Graduate How do we know which is strong,weak force with considering Lagrangian?
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Graduate Maxwell's equations hidden in Dirac's equation?
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Graduate What is electron emission or absorption of a photon?
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Graduate Treating phi and phi-dagger as independent
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Undergrad What does it mean for an object to absorb or reflect light?
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Graduate What are the equations of motion for low energy quantum gravity?
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Graduate Hi I have a question about POVMsim confused as to how they
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Graduate Maxwell equations in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Elements in a Vacuum: What is the Nothingness?
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Undergrad Can a single photon have different kinds of polarization?
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Graduate Questions about Bell's Theorem
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Graduate What is the nature of photon spin and how does a polarizer affect it?
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Graduate Understanding Classical & Quantum Coherence in Optics
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Graduate Clarification between electron cloud and a wave
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Graduate Photoelectric Effect after Passing through Double Slit
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Graduate What is the significance of generalized angular momentum in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Multiple double slits in series (not parallel)
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Graduate Does Observation Affect Quantum Particle Behavior?
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Undergrad Heisenberg uncertainity principle
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Graduate Tensor gymnastic in Noether's Current
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Graduate Is the quantum realm well-defined?
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Graduate Free particle - Eigenstates expansion
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Graduate Solving a Math Mystery: Wave Functions & Probability Density
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Graduate Can Particles Retain Information at Absolute Zero?
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Graduate Is there any theoretical way to have physics work not like quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Does quantum entanglement allow information to travel faster than light?
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Graduate What Occurs When an Atom's Nucleus Disappears?
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Graduate Does the Quantization of Space-Time Imply a Finite Number of Spatial Locations?
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Graduate Why do they only consider S-matrix in QFT?
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Graduate Perhaps we do see quantum behavior at the macroscopic scale
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Graduate Are Buckyballs Entangled in Double Slit Experiments?
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Undergrad What is a negative magnetic moment?
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Graduate Phase shift of tunneling particle
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Graduate Question about Orbitals in an Atom
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Graduate Entanglement in delayed choice quantum eraser (DCQE)
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Graduate Need help for solving an operator equation
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Graduate QED and light traveling in straight lines
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Graduate What is the objective of renormalization group theory?
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Graduate Time-dependant perturbation theory & transitions
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Graduate HUP Greeting: Meaning & Opinions
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Graduate Is the electron's energy changed when the infinite potential wall moves?
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Graduate A question about the minimal vertex possible
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Graduate I really need a definitive answer to the HUP/vacuum/pair production problem.
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Graduate Commutative operators and obserables
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Graduate Feynman paths and double slit experiment
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Graduate A query on the (old) motivation for renormalizable theories
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Undergrad Dual Vector Space: Simple Explanation
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Graduate Cluster radioactivity- want to know more?
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Undergrad Black Body Radiation & how it works?
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Graduate 'Quantum grains' smaller than 'Planck length'
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Graduate Recommended Texts for Self-Studying QFT?
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High School Hi everybody,this is my first post. So sorry for the possible
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Graduate Space/time expansion and quantum world
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Graduate Can the Mach-Zehnder interferometer be used as a which-way detector for photons?
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Graduate Klein-Gordon field is spin-0: really?
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Graduate Spin Angular Momentum Conservation in the Stern-Gerlach Experiment
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Graduate How does Quantum Physics solve the ultraviolet catastrophe?
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Undergrad What is the Correct Formula for Calculating Angular Momentum in Bohr's Theory?
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Graduate Questions about Schrodinger's equation?
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Graduate Rotation group representation and pauli matrices
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Graduate Eigenvalues of Hermitian opertors
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Graduate Nuetron Interferometry in Ballentine
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Graduate Thoughts on realistic model of electon Zitterbewegung
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and Two slit experiment
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Graduate Electron diffraction diameter measurement
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Graduate Fermat's Principle Explained by Feynman
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