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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad "The wavefunction never collapses"
Graduate Srednicki Path Integrals eq 6.22
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Graduate What is the essence of quantization?
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Undergrad Bohr's Quantization of Angular Momentum
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Graduate Quantum uncertainty on macroscopic scale
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Undergrad Electron Transition: Why Doesn't Excited Electron Absorb Extra Photon?
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Graduate Understanding the Infinite Square Well Problem | Bound States & Eigenfunctions
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Paradox in Modified EPR Experiments?
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High School How Does Light Become Polarized by Reflection?
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Graduate Bundle of energy, but does it have mass?
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Graduate Dirac delta function is continuous and differential
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High School Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Momentum conservation in the photoelectric effect
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Graduate About an (informal, discussion-oriented) Quantum Physics model
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Graduate Why is linear algebra essential in understanding quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Questions on Quantum Physics: Compton's Scattering & Dirac's Relativistic Energy
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Graduate Quantum Measurements and Macroscopic Objects
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Graduate Nuclear magnetic resonance dipole dipole interaction
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Graduate Understanding the Wavefunction: Interpreting its Role in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Derived form of plancks distance
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Graduate Pion Nucleon Scattering and Group Theory in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Wilson loops (srednicki eqn. 82.37)
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Graduate Wick rotation is consistent with caculus?
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Graduate Having trouble understanding the wave function collapse.
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Graduate How Does Bifurcation in Dynamical Systems Influence Information Generation?
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Graduate If a system is made of 3 atoms with no degeneracy with energy levels
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Graduate Solving the Measurement Problem: Imagine Yourself in a Room
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Graduate Quantum Locality: Resolving QM and SR Compatible?
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Graduate Reconstruction of potential V(x)
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Graduate Self-Adjoint Operators and Reversible Logic gates
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Graduate About Feynman's 'QED:The strange theory of light and matter'
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Graduate Did Scientists Prove Current Measurements Change the Past?
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Graduate Understanding Unpolarized Current & Light
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Graduate I think I have good questions About superposition and splitting
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Graduate Negative energy photon emission
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Graduate How Can Degenerate Perturbation Theory Help Identify Zero Order Eigenstates?
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Graduate Quantum Superposition Explained - Is It Possible?
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Graduate Reality, locality and determinacy.
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Graduate What is the relationship between quantum bits and classical measurements?
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Graduate New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries
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Graduate Photons do not travel in straight lines
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Graduate Transition from QFT to Classical Physics using Path Integrals?
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Graduate Entropy and the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Euclideanizing Action: Refs & Fermionic/Spin-1 YM Actions
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Quick Question: Normalising phi for the Hydrogen atom.
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Graduate Problem with Path Integral Expressions in Peskin And Schroeder Section 9.1
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Graduate One atom in space what happens
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Graduate Simplified Heisenberg Hamiltonian; Linear combinations of basis states
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Graduate Is the Classical Limit of Quantum Field Theory a Valid Inquiry?
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Graduate Why is Rabi frequency important in physics?
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Graduate How does the interaction between two quantum systems form entanglement?
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Graduate Sampling at 1/n Planck Time: Synchronizing Samplers and Analyzing Data Values
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Graduate What is the Weyl symbol and its relation to the propagator in QFT?
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Graduate Pauli's exclusion principle and cooper pairs
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Graduate Quantum Leaping & Perpetual Motion?
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Graduate Does particle interaction take time?
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Graduate Quantum Cosmology - Imaginary Time
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Graduate Quantum Theory & Null Hypothesis: Impact & Obsoleteness
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Graduate Path Integral Propagator Normalization in Lewis Ryder's QFT book
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Graduate Photoelectric and Compton Effects
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Graduate What Are the Forbidden Regions in Finite Square Wells?
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Graduate Is the Born Approximation in Cohen-Tannoudji vol 2 textbook accurate?
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Graduate What's the total angular momentum operator for a system of two particles?
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Graduate Photon wavelength quantization?
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Undergrad Where do electromagnetic waves not penetrate through holes?
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Graduate Can Bethe Ansatz Solve Multiple Fermionic Particles in a 1D Infinite Well?
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Graduate Understanding Spin Density Matrix Invariance
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Graduate What do you think these Weak Measurement, Quantum Uncollapse Tests. Re-write QM?
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Graduate Can a Quantum Mechanic Fix Your Physics Problems?
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Graduate Time and Space Theory (pleas critic and give your ideas)
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High School Seeking Point Particle Explanation
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Graduate Fermions in bound states and their wavefunctions
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Graduate Hilbert space dimension contradiction
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Graduate What preliminary knowledge of QM should I know before learning QFT
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Graduate Invariance of Schrödinger's equation
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Graduate What is the significance of the LSZ reduction formula in Srednicki's QFT book?
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Unreliable Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Quantum Flux
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Graduate Why is a probe field necessary in pump-probe experiments?
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Graduate Little fundamental question
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Graduate Diffraction Grating Video (QED)
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Graduate Answer Me Precisely: Electronic Density Probability
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High School Cave of the Winds, CO - photons
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Graduate Why Do Electromagnetic Interactions Involve Photons as Mediators?
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Graduate Is free will possible in Conway and Kochen's FW theorem?
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Undergrad Understanding Atom Excitation: Natural vs Triggered Movement and Photon Emission
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Are there any real quantum experiment videos available online?
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Graduate Question on function of operators
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Graduate Are Quantum Boundaries Indefinite?
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Undergrad I really with spin quantum number.
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Graduate Second Quantization: What Is It?
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Graduate Wavefunction for particle inside a disk
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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect and light as a particle
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Graduate Non-degenerate and degenerate perturbation theory
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Graduate Virtual Particles: Real or Not?
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Graduate Energy, Time, Position, Momentum which is more fundamental?
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Graduate Fourier transform of a wave equation
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Graduate The Energy Levels of a Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Why Is the Hermiticity of the Density Operator Important in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the relationship between temperature and emissive power for a gas?
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Graduate Why is the sum over all connected diagrams with a single source in QFT zero?
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Graduate Isn't classical spin an instance of spin 1?
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