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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Undergrad Salt Water Swimming Pool Question.
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Graduate Unceartianity and virtual pions.
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Graduate Photon flight times and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Phase shift upon external reflection
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Graduate So, I know that spin is very important in quantum mechanics/elementary
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Graduate Time invariance of Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Vector Representations of Quantum States
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Graduate A question on Virtual Photons, and QED
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Graduate First Quantum Computer now Commerical?
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Graduate A question about wave function
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Graduate States of Composite Systems, p. 216: Ballentine
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Graduate Ryder QFT 2nd ed. page 341 misprint?
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Graduate Double-Slit time reversal leads to fractal multiple universe theory?
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Graduate Relativistic corrections to Schrodinger's equation
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Graduate Quantum phenomena as emergent property in networked computer simulation?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Be Taught Without Relying on Representations?
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Would you buy a quantum table?
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Graduate How Do Dirac Delta Functions Relate to Quantum Mechanics and Eigenvalues?
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Graduate Hartle: QM of Individual Systems (1968)
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Graduate Half-Integer Spin: Explaining Discontinuity's Lack of Impact
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Graduate Solving the Paradox of Quantum Mechanics & Special Relativity
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Graduate Learning Spherical Harmonics & Angular Momentum
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Graduate How to calculate Clebsch-Gordon coefficients
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Explaining Distance Effects
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Graduate Tunneling effect or barrier penetrability
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Graduate Can A White Photon Exist?not so easy to Answer
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Graduate Is Quantum Entanglement Verifiable and Misrepresented in Mainstream Media?
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Does Quantum Mechanics embrace/perpetuate eastern religions?
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Graduate What maths in preparation for quantum mechanics
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Graduate Interaction Picture: Explaining H = H_o + H_int
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Graduate Quantum Physics: Theory of Entanglement
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Graduate Klien Gordon Equation solution under Lorentz transformation
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Graduate What is the difference between classical and quantum law?
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Graduate About cosmological quantum rectangular barrier potential
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Graduate What are the key theorems on the mathematics of symmetries in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Can Quantum Error Correction Revolutionize Computing?
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Graduate Deriving Moseley's Law Using QM/QFT
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and electrons.
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Graduate Do Quantum Particles Have Physical Volume or Are They Just Points of Energy?
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Graduate How we see things, relating to Crystal field theory.
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Graduate Bose-Einstein condensate and ions spin
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Graduate Question about interacting fields
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Graduate So at what direction do Quarks spin ?
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Graduate Solving schrodinger equation for quarkonium
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Graduate Understanding the Hellman-Feynman Theorem
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Graduate My derivation of the Shrodinger Equation
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Graduate Why the electromagn potential obeys Callan-Symazik equa like Green Function?
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Graduate Does quantum mechanics say everything is random?
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Graduate Srednicki 43.10: Minus Sign Explained
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Graduate Information's relation to Time and Mass
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Graduate Things that self collapse or self measure
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Graduate The role of probability in Quantum Physics
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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect: Insufficient Energy Collision
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Graduate Entanglement and decoherence: middle-brow treatment?
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Graduate Spin of a proton from its parts.
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Graduate The role of probability in Quantum Physics
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Graduate Quantum view of gravitational waves
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Graduate Calculation of particle life span
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Graduate Time derivative of schrodinger equation
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Graduate Using the double slit experiment to predict our own actions
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Graduate Huygens-Fresnel Principle in QM
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Graduate How QTF Theory solves the infinite electromagn selfenergy of electron?
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Graduate Tunneling probability and higher order terms in WKB method
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Graduate What is the sense of Ehrenfest time?
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Undergrad How Many Spectral Lines are Produced During Electron Transitions in Hydrogen?
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Graduate Interference between different kinds of particles
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Graduate Connection between Free Energy and Action
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Graduate Visualizing Photons: Wavefunctions, Frequency, and More
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Graduate Understanding Negative Quantum States: A Simplified Explanation by Dirac
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Graduate Iterated dimensional regularization
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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations of Fields: Vacuum Explained
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Graduate What is the significance of neutron interference in the neutron drop experiment?
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Graduate What Keeps Electrons Stable in Higher Energy Levels Despite Their High Energy?
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Graduate Hydrogen atom in ground state: some puzzle
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Graduate Renormalisation group - Which critical points are usefull in a RG flow diagram?
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Graduate Negative Resistance in Resonant Tunneling
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Graduate The interference term. Confused.
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Graduate Electron Energies in Atoms: Fixed Values or Expectation Values?
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Graduate Could hidden dimensions help hidden variable theories ?
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Graduate May I suggest an experiment concerning negative energy?
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Graduate Can you move particles by cooling them?
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Graduate Why are observables represented by operators in Hilbert space?
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Graduate What causes particles to become Quantum Entangled?
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Graduate Understanding the Multiverse: A Scientific Perspective on Parallel Universes
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Graduate Half-Silvered Mirrors Inverting Photon Waves
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Undergrad Angular Momentum of Bird Question
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Graduate Can Creation and Annihilation Operators Solve the Hydrogen Atom Problem?
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Graduate The GRW Flash Theory and the Conway-Kochen ‘Free Will’ Theorem
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Graduate Macro objects and superposition of states
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Graduate Some problems about Quantum tunnelling
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Graduate Mechanism for FTL information exchange.
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Graduate Are space and time really quantized?
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Graduate Is the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb problem based on incorrect assumptions?
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Graduate Construction of Hamiltonian from Casimir operators
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Undergrad Probability and Areas Around Atomic Nuclei
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Graduate 'Quantum Magic' Without Any 'Spooky Action at a Distance'
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Graduate Can/do relativistic effects explain select quantum phenomena
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Graduate What exactly is electron spin?
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Graduate What happens when a photon meets a virtual photon of the same wavelength?
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Graduate WHY stationary things START falling: an informal 'quantum' gravity suggestion
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