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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Only Observables can be in Superposition?
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Graduate Best Resources for Learning Path Integral Formulation in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Feynman Diagrams- Not Conserving Momentum?
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Graduate Use of quantum ideas in classical statistical physics
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Graduate Why is probability density = |wavefunction|^2?
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Graduate QUICK QUESTION about uncertainty principle:
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Graduate Variation of the double slit experiment
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Graduate Angular-Momentum Quantum Numbers
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Graduate Interferometers with unequal arm lengths
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Graduate Background Indipendant or Dependant?
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Graduate Discussion of A. Neumaier's claim that classical EM can violate Bell's theorem
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Graduate QM Newbie: What Does 'Non-Degenerate Spectrum of Boundstates' Mean?
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Graduate Is Bell's Theorem a Valid Solution to the Locality Versus Nonlocality Issue?
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Graduate Why can we freely disposal the renormalization conditions?
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Graduate Can a classical model for electron satisfy requirements of quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Color of Gluon Jets in Electron-Positron Annihilation
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Graduate Superposition betweeen Boson and Fermion
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Graduate Help with variation in Hartre Fock method
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Undergrad Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Meaning
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Graduate How is there discrepancy between GR and QM?
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Graduate TED Video: Making sense of a visible quantum object
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Graduate In Calculus, does the limit somehow describe QP
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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations: Meaning & Universe Creation
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Graduate Super position? or super assumption?
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Graduate How to get relation for multipole radiation?
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Graduate Simple Integral: Complex exp -> delta function
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Questions
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Graduate Spin-1 Propagator and polarization vectors
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Graduate Calculating the momentum of a debroglie wave from its wave function
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Graduate Double slit - couple questions.
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Graduate Questions about the Hartree Fock Method and Methane Molecules
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Graduate Reality exists when observed, but who is the observer?
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Graduate Conserved currents in Mandl & Shaw (section 2.4)
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Graduate Is there a 'classical' equation for the strong force?
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Graduate Blackbodies and Maxwell's Whole Number Wavelength Theory
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Graduate Particle interchange and z component of spin
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Graduate Limits of Macroscopic Entanglement
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Graduate How do mirrors work in quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Question about Double Slit Experiment with Electrons
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Graduate No more than two electrons in the entire universe can have the same momentum
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Graduate DCQE - walborn/yoon do it one way only
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Graduate Correct way to calculate energy in Bohr Atom Model
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Graduate Feynman's Derivation of Maxwell's Equations from Commutator Relations
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Graduate Clarifying the Misconception: Do Positrons Really Travel Backward in Time?
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Graduate Can grandpa understand the Bell's Theorem?
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Graduate What's the difference between a fock state and a mixed ensemble?
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation: Why Bodies Absorb & Radiate Heat
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Graduate BBC Researchers Break Quantum Mechanics Complementarity Rule
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Graduate Can we attain a disire approxomation for asymptotic perturbative QTF Theo?
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Graduate Can Neutrons be Deflected in a Non-Uniform E Field Due to Spin?
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Graduate General questions about photons and electrons
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Graduate Instant Correlation vs. Instant Communication: Exploring the Difference
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Graduate Do particles have well-defined positions at all times?
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Graduate Wave propagation, resonance and collapse
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Graduate Photon wavelength shift from gravitational lensing?
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Graduate Photon observed to be behaving as a particle
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Graduate How does one observer win out over another?
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Graduate Quantum dot, quantum wire, quantum well?
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Graduate Understanding QFT and the Role of Particles in Quantum Fields
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Graduate How to demonstrate the asymptotic charateristic of perturbative QTF Theo?
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Graduate Is there a direct magnetic interaction between two electrons?
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Graduate What is a probability amplitude?
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Graduate What is the difference between singularity and infinity in QTF theo?
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Graduate Photon radius and affected energy in double-slit experiments
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Graduate Tools of the Quantum Physicists
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Graduate Tunneling equation have all the pieces, just can't figure out the calculation
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Graduate Simultaneous Causation and Entanglement
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Graduate A question in one dimensional Schroedinger Equation.
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Graduate Are There Multiple Independent Spins in Higher Dimensional Spaces?
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Graduate Eigen functions/values for many-body Hamiltonian with creation/annihilation operators
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Graduate Pauli's Exclusion Principle - arbitrary?
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Graduate Why do photons come in quanta?
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Graduate What if the H constant was larger?
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Graduate Question about the Scharnhorst effect
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Graduate Could the Multiverse Explain Everyday Choices and Our Perfect Universe?
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Graduate Help a Physics Student with Two Dim. Oscilator Problem
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Graduate Wavefunction/eigenfunction and eigen states?
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Graduate Superpoincarè algebra and generators: questions
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Graduate Should Quantum Randomness be called Supernatural?
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Undergrad How do you measure momentum of a particle?
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Graduate Atomic exitations, difference between photon and electron collision?
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Graduate How does Feynman Sum Over Histories make sense?
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Graduate Planck instant and neurobiology. Could mind exist outside time-courses?
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Graduate Role of Observer in Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Theory Behind Dirac Lagrangian: Reasons Nature Didn't Choose Mine
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Graduate Are entanglements the most fundamental existences in the universe?
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Graduate Finding all symmetries of a given Lagrangian
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Graduate Numerical 2D Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Mathematical meaning of measurement
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Graduate Must have gone through one of the slits
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Graduate Scattering Probability and Particle Size in the Atmosphere
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Undergrad Basic question regarding the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Entangled Atoms and propagation.
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Graduate Feynman Parameters: Solving an Induction Problem
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Graduate Hi,In Mandl&Shaw, when we calculate the covaiant commutation
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Graduate Grasmann Lagrangian - literature
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Graduate G-factor of electron, proton, and neutron don't cancel out
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Graduate In DCQE you can get which way and still get interference?
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Graduate Are Virtual Particles Real According to the Dynamic Casimir Effect Study?
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Graduate Bell's theorem and foundations of statistics
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