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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Undergrad Does Light Have Infinite Mass When Traveling at the Speed of Light?
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High School Can Quantum Tunnelling Explain the Physicist's Ice Cream Parlor Strategy?
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Undergrad Orthogonality and orthonormality ?
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Graduate Asymptotic behavior of coefficients
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Graduate Is the space of total angular momentum complete?
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Graduate Volume integral of current density
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Graduate Why doesn't the electron fall into the nucleus?
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Graduate Can I Create a Focussed Electron Beam at Home with Household Items?
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle
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Graduate Rectangular Potential and Constraints
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Graduate IR divergences by analytic continuation of parameters
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Graduate Reviewing Yang-Mills Gauge Field: Symmetries & Path Integral Methods
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Graduate How to describe the 'real world'
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Graduate How is the variation of the determinant of the metric computed?
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Graduate Historical qustion-models of atoms
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Youtube maglev toy train demonstration
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Graduate Dynamic relationship of the subatomic particles
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Graduate Help me in QTF theory(t'Hoof's method)?
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Graduate What is the connection between oracles and quantum physics?
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Graduate Can Photons Pass Through Protons or Do They Always Collide?
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Graduate Shannon entropy of wave function
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Graduate Are Noether charges a rep of the generators on the Hilbert space
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Graduate Mark Srednicki's Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Transcendental Medition
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory Purly in Momentum Space?
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Graduate Representation of Angular Momentum Operator in the (j,j')
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Graduate Is Quantum Physics More Empirical or Theoretical?
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Graduate Integration in path integral formalism?
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Graduate No simple map between classical and quantum
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Graduate Can Particles Described by Dirac and Klein-Gordon Equations Exist Independently?
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Graduate Does in EPR problem transfer anything between two particle?
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Graduate Elementary QFT question, part 3
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Graduate Wave function phase relationships
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Graduate Path Integrals in finite dimensions
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Graduate Hermitianity of gamma matrices
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Graduate Non spherical solutions of a spherical potential well?
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Graduate How useful are indefinite state spaces?
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Graduate Why Did Quantum Mechanics Adopt Specific Notations?
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Graduate Exclusion Principle: Do Similar Sub-Atomic Particles Follow?
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Graduate Describing Force using potentials
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Graduate Understanding Orbital Motion and Energy Levels in Hydrogenic Atoms
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The Well-Known Result: Rigorous or Not?
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Graduate Does Time-Energy Uncertainty Violate Energy Conservation?
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Graduate Understanding Gas Energy States: A Quantum Physics Analysis
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Graduate Consciousness and Quantum Tunneling
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Graduate Conformal field theory: vertex operator
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Graduate QED: Electric Field - Can We Observe Photons?
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Graduate Quantum cloning and disentanglement
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Original Schrodinger Equation Article in English
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Graduate Can a passionate physics person explain quantum mechanics to me?
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Graduate Real Hydrogen Atom: Exploring Electron Energy Effects
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Graduate Pure state versus superposition
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Graduate Difference Between Weyl & Majorana Spinnors
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Graduate Why is free field called free ?
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Graduate Is Degeneracy Relevant in Classical Physics and Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the Mistake in Deriving the EM Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Entangled Photon Repeater = FTL Communication?
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Graduate How many quantum numbers would the system have overall?
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Graduate Insight, spontaneous ordering?
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Graduate Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation
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Graduate Different masses of particles and anti-particles
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Graduate Hydrogen atom with discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Casimir effect: threshhold distance?
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Graduate About the n-point Green functions in position-space
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Graduate Wave-packets with opposite momenta.
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Graduate What Are the Assumptions Behind the Groenewold-van Hove Theorem?
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Graduate How do we know the value of spin?
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Graduate How to understand braket two state?
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Graduate Quantum Computing problem [Quantum Teleportation] (Nelson and Chuang)
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Graduate Differentiating the complex scalar field
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Graduate Nondegenerate Eignefunctions as Linear Combinations
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Graduate How Can You Calculate Landau Level Orbitals and Wavefunctions?
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Undergrad An Introduction to Hilbert Space: Physically Explained
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Undergrad How Are Slits Made for the Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Why is there a time dilation in relativity and what are its implications?
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Graduate Full knowledge of polarisation angle.
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Graduate Unable to decrypt emission/absorption matrix element
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Graduate Quantum entanglement between fermions
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Graduate QM: Is this a Spherical Harmonic Identity?
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Graduate Understanding the 5 DiVincenzo Criteria for a Scalable Quantum Computer
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Graduate Feynman rules for Majorana fields (based on Srednicki)
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Undergrad Understanding Electron Orbitals: The Role of Photons in Orbital Changes
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Graduate Solving Schrodinger's Eqn for Quantum Ring: Boundary Conditions?
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Graduate Is There a Boson for Magnetic Force in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Stern-Gerlach With 3 Magnets
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Undergrad Interference of different lights
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Graduate Quantum Electrodynamics in Curved Spacetime
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Graduate Wick rotation and interference
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Graduate Single photon wave like propagation
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Graduate Some questions about perturbative expansion of S matrix
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Graduate Interactions between virtual and real particles
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Graduate Why Does Equivalence Principle Imply Non-Existence of Higher Spin Fields?
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics e-2, Bransden & Joachain
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Graduate How do the wave-functions of particles and anti-particles differ?
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Graduate What happens in this thought experiment?
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Graduate Velocity of qm particle in a box
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Graduate Speed of photons through dual slit.
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High School The velocity of electrons (question)
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Graduate General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Motion and Virtual Particles Oh my
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Graduate Unknown well-known equation in Sakurai
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