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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Can the de broglie formula still hold in a medium with reduced speed of light?
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Graduate Superposition of the solutions of the Shrodinger equation
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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Really Exist in Our Universe?
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Graduate Lorentz-Transforming a Newton-Wigner State
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Graduate What exactly is the Sigma-ket-bra?
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Graduate Is it possible for photons to dissappear in vacuum.
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Graduate Research Problem - 4-body Decay
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Graduate Why are even and odd functions orthogonal in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Thermodynamic Evidence for Water as a Quantum Mechanical Liquid
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Graduate Quantifying the unQuantifyable?
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Graduate Classically a particle cant exist in a region where V>E
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Graduate Mass of field for small fluctuations
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Graduate Fourier Transform of a productof Green functions
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Graduate How Does Electron Screening Affect Charged Particle Scattering in Atoms?
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The Mystery of Lamb's Paper on the Photoelectric Effect
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Graduate Operator in second quantization
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Graduate Collapse of wavefunction - how long it takes?
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Graduate Why is -ih/2pi d/dx associated with the momentum operator in X basis?
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Graduate Please point me to more info about these Feynman statements
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Graduate Fermions must be described by antisymmetric and bosons by symmetric
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Graduate Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Reflection coefficient of step potential
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Graduate Why Does Spin Add? Quantum Mechanics Explained
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Graduate What does AB correspondence reveal about measuring devices in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Raising and lowering operators
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Graduate How Does the Charge Conjugate Dirac Field Transform in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Why Photon Spin on Z Direction Must be +1 or -1
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Graduate Bhor's rule breaking energy levels
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Graduate Why Distance Between Lines of Hydrogen Spectrum Decreases
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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal
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Graduate Quantum physics and equivalence principle
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Graduate Angular momentum - integer or half-integer
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Graduate Software to compute quantum mechanical and thermodynamics properties of ions
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Graduate HUP & Non conservation of energy
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Graduate The Understanding of Particle-Wave Duality (Can it be fully understood?)
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Graduate Calculating the Mass of the Electron: Theory vs. Experiment
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Graduate Why Can't I Show the Simple Identity for the Spin-1 Operator in This Paper?
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Graduate How to debunk a quantum mystic?
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Graduate Discover Oscillator Applications in Electromagnetic Fields and Crystal Physics
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Graduate Quantum mechanics - question about the system
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Graduate Confusion about preparing ensemble of particles and no-cloning theorem
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Graduate What's the Force Acting on an Isolated Electron at (0,0,0)?
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Graduate Attractive force between potential wells
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Graduate Estimate ground state energy with HU
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Graduate Experimental realization of Stern-Gerlach SGy filter
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Graduate Symmetry and irreducible representation
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Graduate Probability is square of amplitude or it's product with complex conjugate?
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Graduate Compton Scattering formula for 180 degree scattering.
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Graduate Photon entanglement and fair sampling assumption
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Graduate I want a good refrence for su(2) and it's aplecation
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Graduate Double slit experiment - with molecules?
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Graduate Distinguishing between two quantum states
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Graduate Why Use Free Particle Eigenfunctions for One-Dimensional Quantum Problems?
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Graduate Does Observation Influence Reality in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Entanglement - the Latest Insights?
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Graduate Difference between s-matrix and interactive field propagator?
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Graduate How Does the Fermi Energy of Bare Protons Influence Chemical Reactions?
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Graduate How to Derive Pauli's Equation from Dirac's Equation in a Weak Field?
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Graduate Measurement effect upon wave function
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Graduate Solid state quantum entanglement?
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Graduate Homogeneous and inhomogenous relaxation time
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Graduate Quantum electromagnetic interference
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Graduate Experiments for time-energy uncertainty relation
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Graduate Solving QFT Problem: Deriving <k'|(\partial_\mu \phi^\dag)\phi|k>
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Graduate Schmidt decomposition and bipartite system
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Graduate What Are the Unitaries in the Clifford Group?
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Graduate FTL Messaging: Does Violating Causality Follow?
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Undergrad Is the electromagnetic field quantized?
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Undergrad Effect of Intensity and Frequency on Photoelectric Current
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Graduate QFT general properties operators
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Graduate Is the locality of the propagator affected by the value of M?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Bell's Telephone - Possible FTL Comms?
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Graduate A Very Convincing Quantum Experiment?
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Undergrad Some Explanation with Pauli's Spin Matrices
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Graduate Confused about Parity Operator & Degeneracy in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What Does the EPR Paper Reveal About Einstein's Views on Reality?
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Graduate Is It Too Late to Learn Quantum Field Theory After Years in a Different Career?
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Graduate Time Localization Same As Indeterminacy?
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Graduate Why can't their be zero-energy at the atomic scale
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Graduate Relaxation time and spatial width
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Graduate Time as a Basis Vector in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Can BM explain MUH?Is BM Incompatible with MUH and Consciousness?
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Graduate What Determines the Lineshape in a Two-Level System with Spontaneous Emission?
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Graduate Some explanation with spin qantum No
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Graduate Lie groups and angular momentum
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Graduate Is Planck's constant the key to understanding a quantum?
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Graduate Implications of Quantum physics
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Undergrad What is meant by ths wave-particle duality of electrons?
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Undergrad Why do two particles hold themselves together in a vacuum?
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Graduate Confusion on Meaning of Momentum
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Graduate Desintegration of particle into 2 fermions
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Graduate Second order approximation in time independent perturbaton theory
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Graduate Is Quantum Energy Teleportation Experimentally Viable?
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Graduate Are Autoionizing States Necessary for Accurate Wavepacket Representations?
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Graduate Is Matter Infinitely Divisible?
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Graduate Is it possible to capture (contain?) and electron?
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Graduate What is Wave-Particle Duality in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Can We Use Quantum Mechanics to Reset Our Biological State?
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Graduate Angular momentum and Hamiltonian commutator
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Graduate Time Ordered Integrals Explained - Quantum Mechanics
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