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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool?
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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Graduate What prevents quantum fluctuations from resulting in new universes?
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Graduate Renormalization of Logarithmic divergences
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Undergrad Help Layman Understand EM Wave Propagation
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Graduate What good resources are there to learn about physics
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Graduate Proving Interaction picture field satisfies KG eqn
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Graduate Measuring Photon Force on a Sensitive Scale
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Graduate Relevance of supersymmetric quantum mechanics?
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Graduate The state of magnetism and its possible correlation to gravity
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Graduate What Makes Ferromagnetic Materials Unique in Quantum Magnetism?
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Graduate Electron Tunneling & Waveguides: A Formal Analogy
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Graduate Entanglement correlations, singlet spin state
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Graduate Article says slow light caused by absorption/re-emission?
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Graduate Explore the Concept of Density Matrix with Jensa: A Comprehensive Guide
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Graduate Trouble understanding matter as waves
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Graduate Identical Fermions in an infinite square well
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Graduate Global SU(N) Symmetry and Complex Scalar Invariance
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Graduate Spherically symmetric potential and spherical harmonics
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Graduate Observer types to make the wavefunction collapse.
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Graduate Understanding Operator Equation in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Unitary Operator on a Tensor Product
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Undergrad Alternative Explanation for Double Slit Interference
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Graduate Point-like particles, form factors
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Graduate Warping spacetime, parrallel universes
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Graduate Pauli Matrices in higher dimensions
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Graduate Background that particles sit in
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Undergrad What can you talk about quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Teleportation: Scientific research
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Graduate How would one collapse a molecular wavefunction?
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Graduate Schrodinger solution to hamilton-jacobi
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Graduate How does one type of detector determine path of photon?
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Graduate Problem with complex conjugates and the Time Independent Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Theoretically Destroying a Black Hole
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Graduate CP-volation -> violation of 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Why these four 2p orbital electrons have higher energy state configuration?
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Graduate Quantum effects Photosynthesis
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Graduate Calculating Phase Space Volume for Canonical Ensemble
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Graduate Why does decoherence not fully solve the measurement problem?
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Graduate What is the significance of the scalar output in Hamiltonian action?
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Graduate How to count on-shell DoF of a gauge theory?
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Graduate Statistical mechanics of antiparticles
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Graduate A quantity from schrodinger
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Graduate Enforced symmetry in multi-electron problems
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Undergrad Help with Electron-configuration
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Graduate Wave equations and Schrodinger's equation
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Graduate Stationary states for even parity potential
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Graduate Measurement problem in double slit experiment
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Graduate Semi-classical quantum/Poisson Brackets
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Graduate Schrödinger local and deterministic?
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Graduate Micron sized object observed in quantum state
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Graduate What does color represent in quantum chromodynamics?
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Graduate Gluons relating to quantum chromodynamics
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Graduate A plane wave vs the bound state of Hydrogen atom: orthogonal?
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High School Story of Operators Creation/Anihilation
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory - variational principle
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Graduate Expected value of the spin tensor operator
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Graduate Description of Wave Function Collapse
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Graduate Clarifying Boundary Conditions and Scalar Field Quantization in QFT
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Graduate Proof in heisenbergs uncertainty relation involving bra-ket
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Graduate Correspondence betw. Hamilton-Jacobi & Schrödinger eqns.
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Weird Probabilities: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Can Single Photons Create Dark Bands in Diffraction Patterns?
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Graduate Mass moving through Space/Time = Gravity?
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Undergrad Learned that light is electromagnetic waves
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Graduate Inspection of the Density Matrix
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Graduate Einstein podolsky rosen bridge
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Graduate Shankar CH1 Derivative of Dirac delta
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Graduate Could There Be Distances Beyond Planck Length in Discrete Space?
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Graduate Light wave/particle duality resolution
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Undergrad Why Do Protons Not Absorb Light Rays?
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Graduate Stern–Gerlach experiment with photons?
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Graduate Understanding the Spin of Electron and Its Quantum Numbers
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High School What is the nature of light and how does it affect our world?
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Graduate Why is Hawking Radiation Necessary for Black Hole Evaporation?
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Graduate How Many Physical Degrees of Freedom Exist in Gauge Theories?
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Graduate What is the meaning of square root cut in Zee's Quantum field theory?
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