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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Degenerate pertubation theory when the first order fails
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Graduate Why Tachyons Aren't Allowed in Physics Theory
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Graduate Quantum Energy Teleportation and Decoherence
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Position of a Neutron Using Wave Functions?
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Graduate Ladder Operators acting upon N Ket
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Graduate Question on the Collapse of the wave function?
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Graduate Pure mixed entangled confusion
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Graduate Is the Movement of Real Fields in Tangent Space Related to Spinors?
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Graduate Transformations in vector space
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Infinitesimal Translation Time Evolution Operator
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Graduate What is the most basic form of information?
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Graduate Sidney Coleman Lectures Free on the Net
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Undergrad What is the wavelength of an object at rest according to de Broglie's equation?
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Graduate Interactions between real and virtual particles?
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Graduate Why isn't there a Time operator in QM?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics basiscs (confused about wavefunctions)
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Graduate Fundamental Quantum Probability
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Graduate What Are Your Thoughts on the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Do Electrons Interact With Virtual Particles?
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Graduate Confused again by uncertainty relation
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Graduate QED: Electron Spin & Magnetic Moment - Questions & Answers
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Dialectics
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Graduate Why dont air molecules cause collapse
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Graduate Why do particles exhibit wave-like behavior in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How Does the Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Tester Utilize Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the so called orthogonal operator basis ?
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Graduate Why amplitude squared gives probability / Schrodinger Equation
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Undergrad Raman Spectroscopy: Freshman Physics Major Summer Research
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Graduate Was the particle in a box analogy a recent one?
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Graduate The harmonic oscillator in terms of path integrals without dirac notation
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling- Walking through walls
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Graduate Measure on Path Integral not defined
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Graduate Is There a Mistake in Ballentine's Description of the Variational Principle?
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Graduate Which of the four forces is responsible for degeneracy pressure?
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Graduate Operators: H(t1+t2) = Ht1+Ht2? | Harmitian?
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Graduate Quick Braket notation question
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Undergrad How are expectation values calculated?
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Graduate Commutators and Their Properties in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Definitoon of trajectory in quantum physics, especially in path integrals
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Graduate Algebraic solution of hydrogenic atom
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Graduate Ultimate Fate of a Hydrogen Atom in a Perfect Vacuum
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Discrete Energy Changes Explained
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Undergrad Does Distance Affect the Double-Slit Experiment?
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Can anyone tell me what is this formula?
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Graduate How does they check the number of atoms in BEC?
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Graduate Is There a Quantum Theory Explaining the Nature of the Past?
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Graduate Paramagnetic term of the hamiltonian
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Graduate The reciprocal expectation value
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Graduate Compute SHO Propagator: Eigenfunction Expansion
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Graduate Solving an Interesting Problem with Two Hermitian Operators
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Graduate Particle Movement: Vector or Quanta?
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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Potential energy in hydrogen atom
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Graduate New limit on lorentz invariance violation
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Graduate Analysis of time-dependent SE (infinite square potential)
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Graduate Can Two Hermitian Matrices be Simultaneously Diagonalized if They Commute?
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Graduate Confusing integral in Zee's QFT
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Graduate Units of Scalar Field \phi & Lagrangian Density
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Graduate What is the true nature of matter beyond particles and waves?
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High School If Electrons Aren't Waves, Then What's Waving?
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Graduate How are operator valued distributions defined?
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Graduate Taking picture in atto second? Yes we did.
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Graduate Quantum entanglement, not that weird.
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Graduate What are Repulsive Casimir Forces?
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Graduate A question on eigenstates and operators
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Graduate Hypothetical entanglement question
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Undergrad What are the fundamental forces involved in the chemical reaction?
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Graduate Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization Rule for 3D Systems
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Graduate How can the properties of the same element differ
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Graduate The ground state of a time-reversal invariant system must has zero momentum?
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Graduate Schrodinger Eq. & Energies: Are Values Always Positive?
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Graduate What is the connection between coherence and pure states in quantum physics?
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Graduate Spatio-temporal shape and spectral distribution of pulse
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Graduate The preferred basis problem - help
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Graduate Gravity as a cancellation force
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Graduate Does H(r) Equal Hψ(r) in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Can Feynman's QED Explain Partial Reflection and Light Communication Speeds?
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Graduate One stupid question about Weinberg's Volume 1
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Graduate Do we need quantum-classical correspondence?
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Graduate Angular momentum and group representation
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Graduate Vacuum Polarization as EM Wave.
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Graduate Tensor products and subsystems
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Graduate Can virtual particles explain quantum phenomena?
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Graduate Does light spreading contradict the attraction of photons in a laser?
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High School Do our fingers ever touch electrons or nucleis?
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Graduate Playing with magnetic balls, and now I have a question
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Graduate Formula for expectation value of raidous in Hydrogen atom
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Graduate Why is wavefunction a lorentz scalar? So confused
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Graduate Understanding Electron Probability in Atom
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Graduate Maxwell propagator in Kaku's QFT book
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Graduate What is the construction of gamma matrices and spinors in higher dimensions?
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Graduate Particle or Wave: Questioning Human Mindset
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Physics Implications
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High School Understanding the Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Physics: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate The Large Hadron Collider - Where is the particle?
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Graduate Planck length and the speed of light
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Graduate What is the meaning behind a gluon's color?
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Graduate Maxwell Equations: Radiation requires acceleration?
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Graduate Question about Entanglement and electron spin
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Graduate Solving Schrodinger's Equation: Finite Jumps at Singular Points?
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