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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Loop corrections to the propagator
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Graduate QED Predictions of fine structure constant and g-factor
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High School Ionization energy of electrons?
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Graduate Explicit form for representing two spin 1/2 system
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Graduate What's wrong with this local realistic counter-example to Bell's theorem?
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Graduate Why is the lagrangian polynomial in fields and derivatives
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Graduate Correspondence principle in arbitrary coordinates
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Undergrad How does diffraction cause interference
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Undergrad Is Light Capable of Being Polarized in Multiple Directions?
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Graduate Free Electron Density of States question
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Undergrad Reflection of Light on Mirrors: Why & How?
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Undergrad Potential Wells: What Is a Potential Well & What Does Its Graph Tell Us?
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Graduate Two Nature Articles - Quick Questions
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Graduate Understanding Schur's Lemma in the Context of Free Particles
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Graduate Why does the uncertainty principle imply randomness
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Undergrad Comparing Energy Transmitted by Light & Sound: Help Needed!
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Graduate Consciousness: Objective - Subjective
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Graduate Fermi's Golden Rule - Inelastic collision probability
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Graduate Young Double Slit experiment, single photons
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Graduate Lorentz invariant lagrangian density
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Graduate Non-linear Operators: Physical Reasons Explained
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Graduate Is Quantum Statistical Mechanics a Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Infinite Charged Electron in QFT
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Graduate Entangled Particle Communication (again)
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory and Perturbation Approximation
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Undergrad How do electrons maintain a stable distance from the nucleus?
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Graduate Exploring Shape Resonance in Air: Oxygen and Nitrogen
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Graduate Understanding Eq (4.19) of Peskin-Schroeder
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Graduate What oscillates in an electron?
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Graduate Position of an electron with exactly 0 momentum
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Graduate Why do massless particles have only two degrees of freedom?
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Graduate An Interesting New Test of Realism
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Graduate Another doubt in Peskin Schroeder Sec 4.2
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Graduate Particles are really planck size?
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Graduate Scattering of Light: Electron Excitation & Photon Absorption
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Can this be Done? | Solutions to Uncertainty
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Graduate Van der Waals Force: Questions Answered
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Graduate How can the Casimir effect result in a repulsive force between solid materials?
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Graduate Complex Conjugate applied to operators?
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Graduate Photon Absorption: Atom, Transition Level, and Energy
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Graduate A couple of entanglment questions
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Graduate Do Wavefunctions Include All Possible Outcomes?
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Graduate Difference Between Non-Seperability and Non-Locality?
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Graduate Why Is the Divergence of a Diagram ln(lambda) When D=0?
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Graduate Crucial step Quantum mechanics
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Graduate What Are the Implications of the Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate Psi & Probability: Linking Complex Concepts
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Graduate Finding energy of an electron analytically
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and Communication
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Graduate Defining Probability in Quantum Physics
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Graduate Is it possible to create a Positron - Electron cooper pair?
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Graduate Indistinguishability and entanglement
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Graduate An question about antiunitary operator
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Graduate Construction of asymptotic states in QFT
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Graduate Nonlinear measurements - HUP violation or not?
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Graduate Preparation of Single qubit mixed states
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Graduate Why the Integration Constant in the Schrödinger Equation is Set to L(L+1)?
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Graduate Can 1D Cavities Explain Free Space Physics in EM-Field Quantization?
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Graduate Renormalisation constants in QED
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Graduate Is electron spin a perpetual motion?
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Graduate A question about quantum tunnelling
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Graduate What the wave function exactly mean?
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Graduate How can I define what is the wavefunction
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Graduate Applying Perturbation to Mercury: Understanding Electron Behavior"
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Graduate Where do all the interfered photons go?
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Graduate 2 particles in a 1-dimensional box
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Graduate Could anyone derive an assertion found in light and matter, a strange theory ?
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Graduate QED functions E(a to b) and P(a to b)
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Graduate In the reality how I perform the many kind of measurements, like operators p,q,E
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Graduate Nonlinear optics: electric dipole moment operator
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Graduate Explanation why dosen't the electron fall into the nucleus?
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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect and energy
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Graduate Visibility of a specific waveleangth
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Undergrad Classical and quantum physics.
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Graduate What is going on with the indices
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Graduate Understanding the quadratic Stark effect
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Graduate Grassman number in functional quantization?
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Graduate Energy-Time uncertainty: observer's clock or observed's?
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Undergrad Would a Wave Plate Affect Interference in Young's Experiment?
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Graduate Raman Wavefunction: Rayleigh & Raman Scattering Implications
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Graduate Gravity: An Emergent Phenomenon According to Theoretical Physicist Erik Verlinde
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Graduate Which of the following particles would have the shortest wavelength?
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Graduate Causes Virtual Particles or Vacuum Energy or Other?
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Graduate Is Discretized Space the Key to Understanding Quantum Decoherence?
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Graduate Vacuum Energy and the Casmir Plate and Electromagnetics
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Graduate What Does One Non-Trivial Irreducible Representation of Clifford Algebra Mean?
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Graduate Trace Theorems and Dirac Matrices
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Graduate The possibility of a Casimir Effect Battery
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Graduate Non-hermiticity of fourth power of momentum operator in L=0 state of hydrigen atom
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Graduate Is There a Superluminal Signal When Turning Off a Harmonic Potential?
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Graduate Solving Confusing Indices in Operator Calculus
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Graduate Quantum physics, reality, consciousness and the hypnagogic/hypnopompic state
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High School Are electrons and protons equal in attraction?
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Graduate Atom and Sublevels: Quantum Physics Questions Answered
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Graduate What is the mathematical basis of quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How to know if two photons are entangled?
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Graduate Physicsal meaning of Expectation of two variables
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Graduate Proof Scalar action is conformally invariant
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Graduate What is the unidimensional case of a finite barrier inside a finite well?
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Graduate Is the substitution of the numerator in QFT scattering amplitudes always valid?
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