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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Force Carriers - How do they work?
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Graduate Can the Fine Structure Constant Be Calculated from First Principles?
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Graduate Understanding the Cat in a Box Paradox
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Graduate Classical limit of the path integral
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Undergrad How Can We Prove E=hf Using Basic Physics Knowledge?
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Undergrad Light Wavelength increases over a distance
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Graduate Can the Future Influence the Past in Quantum Measurements?
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Graduate Understand Wavefunction - Quantum Mechanics Help Needed
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Graduate Prove zero point energy without calculation?
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Graduate Should we think a free particle as a particle in an infinitely big box?
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Graduate Integration on the way to Generating Functional for the free Dirac Field
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Graduate Is the wave/particle duality of electrons what causes vibrations/sounds?
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Undergrad Reduced Mass Effect on Recombination Lines Explained
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Graduate Measurement/observation in QM
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Graduate Finding the Mystery gas questions
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Graduate Deriving the Dirac equation from an action principle
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Graduate Evanescent Wave Coupling & Quantum Tunneling
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Graduate Double slit experiment: counter?
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Graduate Dirac Equation for a moving square potential well
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Graduate Effect of the raising operator on an l=1 m=1 state
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Graduate Examining Violations of Hund's Rule in Electron Configurations
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Graduate Probability of simultaneous measurements of momentum and position
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Graduate What happen to a single photon entering a PBS.
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Graduate What is the Significance of the Overall Phase in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Why Normalization Factors in Fourier Transform Pairs?
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Graduate Speed of Light: Does a Photon Move Faster or Slower?
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High School Are electrons wave or a particle?
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Undergrad Figuring out the frequency of light using a solar cell
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Graduate Energy & Time, Momentum & Position
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Graduate What part of the Dirac field is anticommutating?
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Graduate Discrete energy level of schrodinger's equation
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Graduate The question of the CPT(coherent population trapping)
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Graduate How can a point particle spin?
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Graduate Optical polarization conversion
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Graduate What is the shape of an electron in an atom?
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Graduate Peskin Schröder Chapter 7.1 Field Strength Renormalization
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Graduate Understanding Randomness in Quantum Mechanics (QM)
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Graduate Bound states in relativistic quantum mechanics
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Graduate General Modern Physics questions
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Graduate Lowest-order correction for the bendulum
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Graduate What is principal value integral?
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Graduate Sum of two slater determinants
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Undergrad Are Atoms Real? Investigating the Existence of Subatomic Particles
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Graduate Classification of schrodinger equation?
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Graduate Is the Frequency of an Electron Realistic for Acceleration in an Accelerator?
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Graduate The Mystery of the Schroedinger Equation in a Magnetic Field
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Graduate Bell Theorem and probabilty theory
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Graduate Does anyone know about Quantum Computing?
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Graduate What the differ between eigenstate and eigenfunction ?
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Graduate Determining wether consciousness is required in the double-slit experiment
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Graduate Gaussian Integral Identity with Grassmann Numbers
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Graduate QFT question about algebra of charges
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Graduate Quantizing Zero-Frequency Modes: A Challenge
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Polaroid Films & Wave Function Collapse
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Undergrad Interpreting Schrodinger's Cat: The Role of Observers in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Polarization of Light: 2 Degrees & Longitudinal Electric Field
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Graduate Distinguishing between eigenstates
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment and Electron Spin
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Graduate Unraveling Hardy's Paradox: An Analysis of the Controversial Theory
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Graduate Is the Bootstrap Model Still Viable in Modern Particle Physics?
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Graduate Some quantum dynamics simulations
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Graduate What is the Schrodinger Equation?
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Graduate Gedankenexperiment on quantum entanglement
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Graduate Orbital Angular Momentum and Uncertainty?
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Graduate Measuring Angular Momentum for Free Particles: L-square =l(l+1)?
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Graduate Light (wave and particle theory)
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Graduate Plot a several energy eigenvalues of a partical
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Graduate Why Don't Electrons Collide in Orbit?
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Graduate Momentum operator for a free particle with a definite momentum and Energy
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Graduate Coulomb potential removes the degnerecay of states
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Graduate Is entanglement a fundamental resource for quantum information processing?
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Graduate Grand unified theories and quantum mechanics
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Graduate How do non-Hermitian Hamiltonians explain particle decay and quasi-bound states?
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Graduate Understanding the Meaning of Infinity in Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Solving using schrodinger equation techniques
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Graduate Why do particles annhillate with their particles?
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Graduate Are the stings in string theory, considered to be matter?
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Graduate Is EPR Really as Confusing as It Seems in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Entanglement criterion for identical particle
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Graduate Quark Generation: Are Most Quarks in the Universe in Their Least Massive Form?
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Graduate How Do Quantum Well Transistors Transport Charge Carriers?
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Graduate Symmetry of Quantum vs Classical Physics Systems
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Graduate What is an effective field theory
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Graduate Beginner, wondering about wave functions
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Graduate Projecting onto an eigenstate when we make a measurement
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Graduate Anyone know about flourescent dyes?
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Graduate Comparing Photons & EM Waves in Physics
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Graduate Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula question
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Graduate About bases of complex (Hilbert) space
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Graduate Question about angular momentum and spin
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Graduate Calculating Determinants of Operators
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Graduate Can Fourier Transformation be Used for Amplitude of a Free Particle?
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Undergrad Game theory and quantum game theory
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Graduate Energy of Electrostatic Charge ?
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Graduate Dirac-Feynman-action principle and pseudo-differential operators
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Graduate Hermite polynomial and transformation
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Graduate What is the role of proper time in quantum theory
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Graduate How Does the Stern-Gerlach Experiment Illustrate Quantum Spin Measurement?
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Graduate Harmonic oscillator in a time-dependent force
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Graduate Questions about the Double Slit Experiment
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