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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Double-Slit Experiment vs Identical Particles
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Graduate Why Did My Teacher Make a Substitution in Transforming a Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Raising and Lowering Indices and expansion
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Graduate Why Don't Photons Get Absorbed in Double Slit Experiments?
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Undergrad Einstein's theory on photoelectric effect
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Undergrad Compton vs Photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Adding spin components on different axes x+x=Z?
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Graduate Why is quantum spacetime necessarily random?
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Graduate Probablity density of 1s in hydrogen atom
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Graduate Finding \Psi(x,t) From Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate What if Hamiltonian is not constant in time?
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Graduate Can Photon Energy Be Equated to Kinetic and Potential Energy?
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Graduate Second Quantization: Creation & Annihilation Operators
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Graduate Srednicki QFT chapter 8 question
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Graduate Is quantum potentiality more like weight or a wave?
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Graduate Is energy of a free particle observable?
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Undergrad What vibrates in De Broglie waves?
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Graduate Canonical Quantization: Dirac's Book & Gauge Theories
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Graduate Photon Off a Mirror: How Does It Work?
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Graduate Solving the Schrödinger Equation for a Step Potential
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Graduate Low dimensional anticommutation example
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Graduate Is Quantum Behavior Essential to the Evolution of Photosynthesis?
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation of Energy
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Graduate Electron Diffraction - One Electron Through Double Slit
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Graduate Planck's Nobel Address - Photon direction
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Graduate Textbook Mistake: Ionization Energy of He+
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Graduate Uncertainty relations aren't Lorentz covariant
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Graduate Spin states of the addition of 2 spin 1/2 particles
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Graduate Superposition and Coherence in quantum physics
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Graduate Nature of probabilistic measurement
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Graduate Does the photon wavelenght come back to original when one path is blocked ?
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Graduate How Do Bare Couplings Relate to Cutoff in Effective Field Theory?
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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Transmit Information Faster Than Light?
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Graduate Singlet and Triplet Spin States
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Graduate Photon and the field generated by an accelerated charge
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Graduate Field of an accelerated electron falling down to nucleus versus photon
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Graduate What is the Role of Conformal Symmetry in De Sitter Relativity?
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Graduate Can Spacetime Entanglement Unlock the Secrets of Teleportation?
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Graduate How does the hermiticity of Hamiltonian restrict its Lagrangian?
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Graduate Question on irreducible versus reducible Feynman graphs
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Graduate What Distinguishes an Excitation Spectrum from an Absorption Spectrum?
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Graduate Time derivative of momentum expectation?
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Graduate Basic question on Zee-QFT in a nutshell
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Undergrad Equation Appln to 1D Harmonic Oscillator: Help Needed
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Graduate A glance beyond the quantum model
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Graduate Equipment for Quantum eraser experiment
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Graduate Absolute Time vs Relative Time
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Undergrad Is Wave-Particle Duality Really Real? An Analysis of the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate How Many Qubits Are Needed to Accurately Simulate Hydrogen Molecules?
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Graduate What's algebraic approach to QM good for?
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Graduate Solving 1 electron atom Schrodinger Equation in rectangular coordinates?
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Graduate Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from Local realism ruled out? )
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Graduate Application of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Group velocity is equal to the particle velocity?
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Graduate Antiunitary time reversal operator
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Graduate Does the Violation of Bell Inequality Challenge Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Concerning Quantum computers and information
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Graduate Eigenvalue of the coherent state
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Graduate Need of Wave Packet: Schrodinger's Postulate
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Graduate Retrocausality solves QM problems?
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Undergrad Understanding the Wavelength of Photons
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Graduate Information Loss in Photon Absorption?
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Graduate Quanta and the conservation of energy
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Graduate Partial vs. Total Time Derivatives of Kets
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Graduate EPR had a simple but powerful definition
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Graduate How are quantum numbers used to classify eigenvectors of a Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Quantum mechanics at a biological macro level
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment: Explained in Detail
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Graduate Electrons, holes and positrons
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Graduate Quantum spreading of polarization
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Undergrad Can 74ls ICs Help Simplify Karnaugh Maps?
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Graduate Can photons and antiphotons annihilate when they collide?
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Undergrad How Do Karnaugh Maps Simplify Boolean Algebra?
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Graduate Momentum eigenfunction question
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Graduate Does this experiment demonstrate that conscoiusness causes collapse?
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Graduate Help With Derivation of Compton Shift
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Graduate Exponential of creation/annihilation operators
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment and Measurements
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Graduate Proof of Higgs Boson: Particle Spin Q&A
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Graduate Equation for the density of states
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Graduate What is the General Solution for Finding Orthonormal Bases in C^2?
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Graduate Why doesn't the electron radiate?
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Graduate Suggestion about research object(quantum mechanics)
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Graduate Static Electric Fields / virtual photons / Ionization
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Graduate Help regarding normalization of wave functions
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Graduate Why do objects have a uniqueness and not blend?
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Graduate On the definition of Active Transformation
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Graduate Weinberg, QTF, pg 60:very specific question
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Graduate Why do QM particles with l<S vanish in a classical radiation field?
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Graduate The Casimir Effect as a source of clean/green energy?
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Graduate Understanding the Role of Tensor Product in Quantum Systems - Goldbeetle
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Graduate Energy Liberated in Electron/Proton Annihilation
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Graduate Quantum mechanics hydrogen atom
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Graduate Understanding Zeroth Order Approximations in Landau Level Equations
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Undergrad Is What the Bleep Do We Know? Scientifically Accurate?
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Graduate What is a mass independent renormalization scheme
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Graduate Harmonic oscillator in matrix form
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling, Coulomb Barriers and Fusion
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Graduate What is responsible for quantization?
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Graduate Why Use Position-Space Calculations in Quantum Field Theory?
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