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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Quantum Mechanical systems considered in old QM
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Graduate Quantum physics & synchroization of 2 particles.
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Graduate Legendre Polynomials and Complex Analysis
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Graduate Einstein's Delayed Choice Quantum Experiment
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Graduate Two Kraus representations: How to check if they're the same TPCPM?
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Graduate What can I use as a detector to collapse the wave function?
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Graduate Quantizating a symmetric Dirac Lagrangian
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Graduate Random particle movement (with pictures)
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Undergrad Do we live in a perfect liquid?
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Graduate Can't Quantum Entanglement be explained as the same particle?
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Graduate Entropy in isolated quantum systems
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Graduate Evolution of Matter from Quantum World: Macroscopic Scale vs Localized Particles
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Graduate Common sets of eigenfunctions in angular momentum
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Graduate Einstein thoughts on the quantum
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Graduate Can DIY Photon Entanglement Be Achieved at Home?
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Graduate Electron spin entanglements - time-energy uncertainty
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Graduate Scattering Theory Books: Easy to Follow Like Sakurai's
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Graduate What is the Operator <m|n> in the Wave Equation for a Particle in a Box?
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Graduate Calculating First Order Photon Self-Energy Integral
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Graduate Wave-particle duality for the electron
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Graduate Cosmological Constant Problem / Vacuum Catastrophe
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Undergrad Wavelengths of Oxygen - Calculate or Lookup Info
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Graduate What will happen when we have a Theory of Everything?
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Graduate Isometric operators- spectrum preserving?
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High School What is quantum physics used for?
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Graduate Locality in QM and commutators
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Graduate Quick Question: Double Slit experiment
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Graduate Can Time Travel Experiments Prove the Existence of Parallel Universes?
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation of Boiling Water
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Graduate Delayed choice with photons - impossible?
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Undergrad Coincedence Counter in Double Slit Experiment?
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High School What is the shape of an electron?
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Graduate Non-abelian Gauge invariance (chapter 15.1 in Peskin/Schroeder)
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Graduate Virtual particles and Gauss's Law
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Graduate An integral in Srednicki's book
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Graduate Why is quantum so fundamental?
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Undergrad Diodes, transistors and valves
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Graduate Dirac Delta Function vs probability distribution
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Graduate What will be the final conclusion?
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Graduate Can SO(3) be used for Poincare spacetime symmetry in the standard model?
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Graduate Is Planck Charge Related to the Fine-Structure Constant and Plank's Constant?
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Graduate Lorentz transformations on Spinors
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Graduate Why connected correlation function depends on (x-y) only when <Phi(x)> equal constant
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Undergrad What is the shape of a photon's electric and magnetic fields?
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Graduate Why is G-2 of Lande Factor Positive?
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Graduate Question: Minimum uncertainty in ground state electrons
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Graduate IR Spectroscopy: Examining Absorption of Water, CO2 & Methane
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Circuit Jaynes-Cummings Model
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Graduate Do Free Electrons Emit or Absorb Photons?
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Graduate Photon Emission from Antennas: Explained
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Graduate Virtual particles and screening of charges
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Graduate Question about Quantum dot (picture)
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Graduate A fermion oscillator interacted with a boson oscillator
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Graduate Z component of spin angular momentum quantum number values
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Graduate Hydrogen atom - complete orthornormal set
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Graduate How Does the 3-Sphere Map to the Bloch Sphere in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Thinking Outside The Box About Existence.
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Graduate Can absence of hidden variables save locality?
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Graduate A question about index notation
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Graduate Does the breakdown of the wave function need a concsious observer?
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Graduate Is Perturbative Theory Meaningless in Some Cases Despite Small Interaction?
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Graduate Generalized commutation relations
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Graduate Does Wave Structure Study Include Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Suppose there are say 50 observers,each observing the same particle
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Graduate Max Born's 1926 Paper: Probability Amplitude Interpretation and Controversy
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Graduate What Are the Best Mathematical Introductions to Yang-Mills Theory?
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Graduate Doesn't Electron Configuration Prove The Universe Has Three Dimensions
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Graduate How long does it take for a valence electron being excited to conduction band?
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Graduate Normalizing a wave function, what does it mean?
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Graduate Double slit Scattering explanation
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Graduate Quantum Computing: Recent Developments and Resources
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Graduate Matching conditions for solutions to the Schrodinger equation
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Graduate How do you explain the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?
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High School What is the Basics of Quantum Physics?
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Graduate What's the highest spin known?
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Undergrad Integer Spin and Half Spin: What's the Difference? (Bosons vs. Fermions)
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Graduate Is the spin of a photon necessarily parallel or antiparallel to its momentum?
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Graduate Independent virtual particle after mind experiment annihilation
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Graduate Adding a 3rd Polarizer Changes Light Passing Through It
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Graduate Special case of angular momentum components simultaneous knowledge
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Graduate Single particle Interference – Photon Vs Electron Vs Buckyball
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Graduate Observing which-way for fullerene molecules (buckyball)
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Graduate How much negative energy is that space between two non-conducting plates?
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Graduate Entanglement more primary than Spacetime?
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Graduate Magnetostatic Spin Wave: Wave Modulation in Ferromagnetic Medium
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Graduate Is this in relation with quantum entanglement ?
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Graduate The Myth of Wave-Particle Duality
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Graduate Variable pairs in uncertainty relation?
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Graduate DCQE - inserting eraser after s is detected
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Graduate Is Planck's constant a paradox?
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Graduate How Can Signal Models Resolve the EPR Paradox in Special Relativity?
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Undergrad Looking for info on Bremsstrahlung
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Graduate Normalisation of a Wavefunction
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Graduate Solving Eigenvalue Problems: Choosing Eigenvectors
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Graduate Completeness of Eigenfunctions
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Graduate Expansion around a classical vacuum
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Graduate Elementary Hilbert space concepts/definitions.
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Graduate Neutron and Photon interaction
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Graduate Have fullerene molecules been (quantum) entangled yet?
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Graduate Science Research Project- Quantum Physics
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