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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Time independent Klein–Gordon equation with boundary conditions.
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Graduate Ladder operators for angular momentum
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Graduate Worked Out Example of Consecutive Observations in QM
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Graduate The cause of entanglement / coupling
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Graduate Dirac's explanation of negative energy states
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Graduate Two Bosons in a Box: Is it 2/3?
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Graduate Why is Schrodinger's Equation complex?
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Graduate What Happens to Rainbow Fringes with Monochromatic Red Light Diffraction?
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Graduate Bell's theorem proof. Does it really proofs anything?
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Undergrad Quantum Singularities - What Is It?
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Graduate Why energy level transitions only absorb or emit photons？
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Graduate Equation describing particle with spin higher than 1/2
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Graduate What is complex quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Simultaneous diagonalization of two hermitian operators
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Graduate Which wave function and operator is responsible for the Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Intuitions on a Dual Vector Space
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Undergrad What is the electromagnetic field?
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Graduate Time independent operators and Heisenberg eq - paradox?
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Graduate Can you explain the phenomenon of stimulated emission in lasers?
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Graduate Is It Possible to Create a Perfect Square Using Planck Lengths?
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Graduate Does Quantum Physics Prove there is no such thing as Matter?
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Graduate Quantum immortality. Are we immortal?
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Graduate Trapped Ion Computing Question
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Graduate Effects of a 10^60 Decrease in Solar Photon Energy on Earth's Temperature
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Graduate HiLets say I have a Hamiltonian which is invariant in e.g. the
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Graduate Uncertain principle and Noether theorem?
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Graduate From Heisenberg to Superposition states
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Graduate Understanding Weinberg's QFT Proof of Annihilation/Creation Operator Sum
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Graduate Quantum Optics wave amplitude question
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Graduate Quadrupole-quadrupole interaction?
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Graduate Are There Operators in Quantum Physics Without Eigenvalue Properties?
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Graduate Meaning of h.c. in Lagrangians (& elsewhere?)
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Graduate Wavelength of photon and size of imaged object
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Undergrad What is the effect of photon-electron collisions in X-ray imaging?
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Graduate What Are Propagators and Green's Functions in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Number of electron of a Hydrogen atom (molecule)
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Graduate Why Is Quantum Mechanics So Difficult to Understand?
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Undergrad Entanglement and Teleportation
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Undergrad Was the relation between E and f known BEFORE quantum theory?
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Graduate What is the Role of Neutrinos in Explaining Beta Decay Energy Loss?
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Graduate Temporal symmetry solves all quantum paradoxes?
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Graduate Quantum Cryptography Project Help.
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Graduate Etracting ZPP from the vacuum is in violation of the 1st law of thermodynamics?
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Graduate Understanding the Thermal Average of Operators in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Mapping Points on the Bloch Sphere
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Graduate What happens if two operators commute?
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Graduate Attosecond Tomography and Elephants
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Graduate How do we make sense of exponentiating an operator in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Why in Quantum Mechanics is about energy but no force
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Graduate Interference pattern observed half-way into the formation
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Graduate Are virtual photons and electron-positron pairs related in the polarized vacuum?
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Graduate Does Collapsing a Wave Function Require Inputting Energy into a System?
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Graduate Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Questions concerning Delayed Quantum Eraser
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Graduate Why Must Annihilation Occur Between Particle and Corresponding Antiparticle?
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Graduate What constitutes as a measurement?
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Graduate Time dependent perturbation theory
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Graduate Energy levels for a different plancks constant
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Graduate Density Matrix (pure state) Property
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Graduate Understanding Schrödinger's Cat Experiment and the Many Worlds Interpretation
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Graduate Planck's Inspiration to Solve Blackbody Radiation
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Graduate Commute Operators: Hi Niles - Find Out Now
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Graduate Spin, Anti-matter and all that jazz.
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Graduate How does interacting Lagrangian have form of product of fields?
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Graduate Grover's Algorithm/Superposition?
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Graduate Who Can Apply the Operator on a Wave Function to Measure an Observable?
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Graduate Energy: Discrete or Continuous
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Graduate Basic question about how spin changes in time
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Graduate Symmetry factors (Srednicki, figure 9.11)
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High School If we saw x-ray waves could we see the inside of the objects?
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Graduate Quantization of Klein-Gordon Field
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Graduate Weak Electron Interaction: Virtual Photon Effects?
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Graduate What is the significance of the E/M ratio in modern physics?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Questions: Superposition, Bohm Mechanics
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Graduate Question about the uncertainty principle?
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Graduate Puzzled about electromagnetic field behaving like oscillators
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Graduate Srednicki Bar Notation: Understanding (39.8)
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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle between 2 identical fermions
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Graduate What is the difference between left and right Weyl spinors in particle physics?
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Graduate Why the discrepancy in muonic H Bohr radius? 285 fm or 256 fm?
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Graduate No uncertainty principle for scalar particles?
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Graduate Can anyone confirm the ground state Bohr radius for muonic hydrogen?
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Graduate Is There a Contradiction in Weinberg's QFT Book on Simultaneous Eigenstates?
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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Solve the Mystery of Quantum Gravity?
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Graduate Wavefunction really like a wave?
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Graduate What Experiment Demonstrates the Particle Behavior of Electrons?
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Graduate Spin-2 Particles & Representations of SO(3)
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Graduate Understanding the Two Types of Density Operators in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Regarding normalization of the eigen basis vectors
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Graduate Is Space Quantized in Electromagnetic Fields?
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Graduate Can I Calculate Traces and Cross Sections in QED Using Gamma Matrices?
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Graduate Understanding Pauli X Matrix in Z & X Bases
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Graduate Newton-Wigner operator for K-G filed
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Graduate Solving the Dirac Equation for the Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate An identity for functions of operators
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Graduate Questions about the Photoelectric Effect
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Graduate Measuring one slit in double slit experiment
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Graduate Deep space Communication hypothetical question
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Graduate Can weak interaction be defined as a force related to distance between objects?
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Graduate Understanding Matter Waves and the de Broglie Hypothesis in Quantum Physics
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