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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate What Happens to a Charged Particle When Its Oscillator Potential Vanishes?
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Graduate Elementary question:[A,B] = [A-<A>, B-<B>]
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Graduate Does it make sense to define operators like r,theta, phi
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Graduate Question on Completeness of a set of Eigenstates
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Graduate Home Quantum Physics Experiments
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Graduate Single slit diffraction experiment
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Graduate Is there gravity at small scales?
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Graduate Wondering about the origins of light?
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Graduate Zeroes of zeta function as energy levels?
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Graduate The meaning (and validity) of fractional occupations in QM
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Graduate Negative pressure in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Measurement of two components of electron spin
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Graduate S-matrix formula from Lippmann-schwinger eqn
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Graduate Scale of uncertainty principle
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Graduate Are Degenerate Energy Levels the Same as Ground States in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Fundamental Measurement of Subatomic Particles: Techniques and References
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Graduate Wondering about the particle treatment of light?
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Graduate Where is the Electron in Schrodinger's Cat Paradox?
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Graduate Is action truly an observable in physics?
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Graduate How do we associate real measurements with theoretical quantities?
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Graduate Rotational Invariance: Bosons vs Fermions
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Graduate Does matter convert to photons only?
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Graduate Transitions caused by circularly polarized light
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Graduate How Can I Improve My Understanding of NMR Modeling and Experiments?
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Graduate Analogue of the S.E. for photons?
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Graduate Why is entanglement essential for quantum computing?
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Graduate Minkowski vacuum: Poincare invariant, quasi-free state
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Graduate Fock space in interaction theory
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Graduate Creating Models for Ed Witten's M-Theory
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Undergrad Question about spontaneous creation.
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Undergrad Light Transfer (Light Transmittance)
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Graduate Can I Walk Through a Wall with Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Exploring Left & Right Spinor Fields in Srednicki
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Graduate Ionizing solutions to the hydrogen atom
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Graduate Dispersion relation and Photonic Energy and Momentum Equations in QM
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Graduate Attraction between two charges in QED
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Graduate Is there a quantum nuclear theory?
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Graduate If two operators commute (eigenvector question)
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Graduate Hawking radiation redshift (?)
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Graduate Spin-spin relaxation time in water
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Graduate Why need *complex* probability amplitude?
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Graduate Better than Bell: The GHZM Effect
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Graduate Peskin-Schroeder - Eqn 2.45 derivation
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and randomness
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Graduate Einstein against Quantum theory
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Graduate Propagator using cauchy integral
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Graduate Electromagnetic mass of the electron
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Graduate Diagonalize a non-hermitian matrix
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Graduate Dalembertian Operator: Symbolized by Empty Box?
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Graduate Probability laws of quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Quantum physics and technology
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Graduate Forrest Gump meets the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester
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Graduate Delayed-choice double slit experiment
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Graduate Need some convincements on microcausality
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Graduate Is there an upper limit to e/m frequency?
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Graduate What is the Role of Wavefunction in DFT for Molecular Systems?
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Graduate How big is a photon and what does it look and behave like?
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Graduate Does the Wave Function Predict the Most Likely Position of an Electron?
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Graduate Electron/photon interference pattern questioned
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Graduate Reference suggestions for a struggling chemist.
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Graduate Relationship between mass and interactions
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Graduate Jordan wigner transform and periodic boundary condition
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Graduate What Precisely Does Preferred Foliation Mean?
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Graduate What does the Uncertainty Principle say about the location of photons?
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Undergrad Velocity of light while coming out a denser medium
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Graduate How to show time ordering is frame independent
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High School Why Atoms Come Together: Understanding Matter Formation in Nature
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Undergrad What Is the Difference Between Color Neutral and Colorless in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate What Is the Difference Between Hamiltonian and Hermitian Operators?
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Graduate Having trouble with time (in)dependant solutions
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Graduate Time derivative in the Heisenberg picture?
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Graduate Does a photon have a width and height ?
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Graduate How does one arrive at this equality?
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Graduate Understanding Spinors & Tensors in QM & Algebraic Topology
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Graduate What are the properties of Rigged Hilbert Space compared to Hilbert Space?
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High School EPR Paradox Failure Explained for High Schoolers
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Graduate How do a and a^\dagger transform under time reversal transformation?
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Graduate Uncertainty about Uncertainty Redux
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Graduate A few more questions about quantum teleportation
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Graduate Is Quantum Suicide a Viable Concept in Real Science?
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Information Abou FTL Video Needed
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Graduate [tex]\Phi^3[/tex] Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Randomness being an intrinsic property? Quantum entanglement?
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Graduate Why do irrational numbers appear in quantum physics?
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle - nature or human nature?
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Graduate Dirac delta integrated from 0 to infinity
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Graduate Why is the Green's function equal to the vacuum expectation of the field?
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Graduate Express arbitrary state in second quantization
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Undergrad Photoelectric effect & your home
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Graduate Spin vs. Helicity: Transformation under Poincare Group
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Undergrad Question about excited atoms etc.
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Graduate The violation of energy conservation law?
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Graduate Comparing Quantum Foam with Vacuum Energy and the relationship to hyperspace
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Undergrad Does pauli exclusion principle
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Graduate Is the expectation value of this commutator zero?
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Graduate What is the rationale behind quantum theory and the afterlife?
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Graduate What would happen in this double slit experiment?
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Graduate Some doubts understanding wave nature experiment for electrons
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Graduate Fermion creation and annihilation operators
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Graduate Can the wave function collapse before being measured?
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