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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Experimental test of the Uncertainty principle
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Graduate Peskin Schroeder which chapter
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Graduate Seperation of variables, infinite cubic well
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Graduate Physicists capture first images of atomic spin
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Graduate Understanding the Paradox of Photon Momentum: Electromagnetic Force Revealed
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Graduate LS coupling for identical electrons
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Graduate Laplacian of 1/r in Darwin term
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Graduate Time dependence of scalar product
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Undergrad Why Does Photomultiplier Tube Emit 2 Electrons?
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Graduate Information and sphere’s interior versus surface… not.
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Graduate Can a Computer Generate Precognition Through Positron Experimentation?
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What makes quantum mechanics so interesting?
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Undergrad Electron energy increases with N?
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Graduate Normalised wavefunction to calculate the expectation
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Graduate The radius of an electron orbit in helium
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Graduate Schrodinger Time Dependent equation
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Graduate Time dependence of energy & probability
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Graduate What does 'Nothing' mean to a quantum physicist?
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Graduate Really basic quantum mechanics question
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Graduate What is the physical reason for the speed of light paradox?
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High School Is 'The Secret Law of Attraction' considered quantum physics? Do you support it?
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Graduate Radial probability density / quantum numbers.
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Graduate Can someone please explain overlap integrals to me?
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Graduate Understanding the Levi-Civita Symbol and Commutators in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Quantum Suicide Theory = Everyone Dies Of Old Age?
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Graduate How Can Degenerate Fermi Gases Illuminate Quantum Statistics?
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Graduate Allowed energies for electrons in hydrogenic atoms
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Graduate Is this an error in Srednicki?
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Graduate Rigorous Quantum Field Theory.
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Undergrad Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues
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Graduate Why is the result not always 0 in the product rule for derivatives?
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Graduate QFT question - anti-commutator
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Graduate How Do Phase Velocities Relate to Photons in Classical and Quantum Optics?
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Graduate How Does the Double Slit Experiment Demonstrate Particle-Wave Duality?
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Graduate What is the Dimensionality of Wavefunctions?
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Graduate How to reduce fermi-dirac to maxwell-boltzmann in a solid?
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Graduate What is the function of a collapsed wave?
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Graduate Experiment re quantum randomness
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Graduate Antimatter is just matter that is traveling backwards in time
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Graduate Bloch's theorem and diagonalization of translation operator
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Graduate Classical limit of Quantum Optics
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Graduate Gamma matrices and lorentz algebra
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Graduate Understanding the Uncertainty Principle and Its Effects on Atomic Particles
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Graduate Normal frequencies of vibration of a molecule
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Graduate Vacuum Energy: same inside a rock?
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Graduate Is the Speed of an Anti Photon Really -186,000 Miles/Second?
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Graduate Special cases of the Schroedinger Eq?
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Graduate Is Physical Contact Really Possible or Just an Illusion of Forces?
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Graduate Unit of plank constant in the calculation of tunneling probability
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Graduate Solving Scattering Problem: Get Help with Phase Shift Delta
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Graduate QED 1-Loop Renormalization Group Equation
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Graduate How does combining spin result in the total spin angular momentum number?
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High School How to observe interference patterns with a simple experiment?
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Graduate Transferring bits using the square well
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Graduate Interpreting operators in second quantization
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Graduate Wavelength Less Than Planck Length?
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Graduate Quantum Chemistry: Dickson Dip in Spectroscopy
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Graduate Anderson Localization: Decoherence Explanation?
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Graduate Why is the vacuum normalised to 1?
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Graduate Interesting equivalent to Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Feynman Path Integral's Meaning
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Graduate 2 electrons in box, hard walls, total energy E.
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Graduate The wavelength of the virtual photons of the Coulomb force
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Graduate When to use H when to use U(H)?
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Graduate Can Momentum and Spin Be Measured Simultaneously?
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Graduate Is there a universal equation for all spin-2 particles?
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Graduate How can spin-2 be represented as a tensor?
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Graduate Is Light a Wave or a Particle?
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Graduate Mixed State QM: Unpacking the Non-Diagonal Density Matrix
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Graduate Position & Momentum: Detectors, Measurements & Identifiers
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Graduate Zero-point energy, dark energy and space
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Graduate Exploring the Mystery of Blackbody Radiation: A Quantum Conundrum
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Graduate Probability Density or Expectation Value?
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Graduate Number of vibrations in a photon
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Graduate Programming Binary Addition with a Turing Machine
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Undergrad Does Hydrogen's one electron spin?
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Graduate Angular Momentum: Deriving S_z Expression
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Graduate Question on negative temperature
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Graduate Effect for time lag in quantum erasure?
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Graduate Question about the experimental behavior of entangled particles.
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Theory: A Beginner's Guide to Particle Physics
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Graduate Differentials, pseudo-differentials, and locality
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Graduate Electron two slit experiment with gradual collapse ?
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Graduate Electron Transitions: Superposition of States
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Graduate Particle in a box with one finite wall and one infinite wall
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Graduate Different representations of SU3 and resultant multiplets
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Graduate Questions about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle & Vacuum Energy
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Graduate When the electron prob wave spreads what happens to the electron?
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Graduate Time noninvariance in quantum physics
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Graduate What are the fundamental equations of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How Do Fermion and Scalar Fields Interact in Lorentz Invariant Terms?
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Graduate Free Field Vacuum: What Does It Correspond To?
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Graduate Theoretical Quantum Entanglement Question
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High School Electron Movement: Understand Orbit Around Nuclies
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Graduate London- vs Josephson penetration depth
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Graduate What potential can model interactions at boundary walls?
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Graduate Wavelength of Proton: Kinetic Energy = Internal Energy
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Graduate Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist
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Graduate Why is the formula for Compton scattering not affected by binding energy?
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Graduate Measuring momentum in a square well
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