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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Question about quantization of scalar field
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Graduate Please shred my quantum physics-gravity worldview
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Graduate Backwards Time Travel: Breaking the Heisenberg Principle?
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Graduate Interference pattern given many which-path detectors?
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Graduate Absorption Paradox: Continuous Photon Energies and Quantized Molecule Energies
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Undergrad Photon spin - experimental evidence
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Graduate Is Everything in the Universe Entangled According to Physics?
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Graduate Do spontaneous and stimulated emission obey to a Boltzmann's statistics ?
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Undergrad Photon Generation: Need for Electrical Current?
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Graduate How Does Aperture Size Affect Laser Beam Uncertainty?
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Graduate WE theorem to evaluate matrix elements
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Graduate The physical meaning of Pauli Spin Matrices
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Graduate Size does matter? Rayleigh scattering question
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Graduate Angular Momentum - Hydrogen (Quick Question)
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Graduate Conservation of momentum in QFT
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Graduate Vastness of space and infinite universes
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Undergrad Problem in the Defination of electon's wavelength
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Undergrad Can Events with Zero Probability Actually Occur?
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Undergrad No coupling of Photons with eletric fields
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Graduate Quantum Eraser and Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
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Graduate Understanding the Basics of Psi(x) in Quantum Mechanics: Confusion Clarified
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Graduate Prove Spinor Identity in Arbitrary Dimension
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Graduate Does the Delayed Choice Experiment Challenge Classical Intuition?
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Graduate Is Angular Momentum Quantized in a Free Electron's Non-Orbital Motion?
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Graduate Wouldn't the Geiger Counter be considered a measuring device in SC?
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Undergrad Refraction - The lingering question
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Graduate Why 1D well must has this solution?
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Undergrad Narrow slits causes a diffraction pattern
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Graduate Calculating Inner Products of Spinors for QFT
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Graduate De Broglie Waves: Understanding Wave-Particle Duality
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Undergrad Why Does an Atom Experience Red and Blue Shifts During Its Journey?
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Graduate Are Hilbert spaces uniquely defined for a given system?
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Graduate Could positrons be electrons from the future traveling back in time?
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Graduate Classical vs Quantum Electromagetism
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Graduate How useful would a metric independant basis be?
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Graduate How Does the Wavefunction Behave at an Infinite Potential Barrier?
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Graduate Coherent States of the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Complex conjugate of wave function
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Graduate Does collapse violate exchange symmetry?
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Graduate What does a single photon look like
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Undergrad Question on electron orbitals and wavelengths?
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Graduate Completeness of the Number States
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Graduate Light emission/absorption revisited by chemical thermodynamics
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Graduate Planck Scale and Unification of Forces- new research studies
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Graduate Randomness in Quantum Physics
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Graduate How Can the Bohr Radius Help Calculate Energy Levels in Hydrogen?
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Graduate What Happens to the Uncertainty Principle at Absolute Zero?
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Graduate Hydrogen Atom Wavefunction Boundary conditions
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Graduate Learning QFT: Scanning Mandl & Shaw for Highlights
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Graduate Virtual Particles: Exploring Energy Mass & Conservation
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Graduate What are the implications of light having both wave and particle properties?
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Graduate Similarity vs. Unitary Transformations
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Graduate Particle oscillating between two wells
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Graduate What is the physical significance of the commutator in the Virial Theorem?
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Graduate Questioning the Propagator: Diagonal or Not?
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Undergrad Photons and gases (pressure and gravity)
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Graduate [Q]Hamiltonian of many body problem.
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Graduate What can be done when eigenvalues of a Non Hermitian Hamiltonian are complex?
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Graduate QM beginner's question about deltafunction potential problem
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Graduate Questions about Normalized Eigenfunc, Probability & Hamiltonian
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Structure of the wave function space F
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Graduate QM Inconsistency: Friend's Thought Experiment
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Graduate Matter Waves & Electron Traps: Angular Momentum Explained
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Graduate Where can I find detailed description of cononical quantization?
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Graduate What happens during a change in orbital state?
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Graduate [Q] Sign of wavefunction in PIB
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Graduate What Are Some Common Misconceptions About Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How can get the eigenvalues of the two spin entangle
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Graduate The Lorentz force derived from the Klein Gordon equation
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Graduate Negative energy solutions - Dirac equation
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Graduate How do we define a wave function?
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Graduate Calculate Spin Operators from a Spinor
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Graduate Composite Bosons: Same State? Fermion Implications
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Graduate Measuring J^2 & Angular Momentum in QM
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Graduate Particles being in more than one place at once.
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Graduate Quantum particle passes over a potential drop
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Undergrad Normalization and singularities
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Graduate What are the normalizations constants of psi(x) in a finite potential box?
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Graduate Discrete energy states (explanations in QFT?)
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Graduate Eigen functions & eigen vectors
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Graduate Why Tensor Operator? - Angular Momentum & J.J.Sakurai
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Graduate Tensor Rank: Scalar, Vector, Matrix, & More
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Graduate [Q]Question about harmonic oscilator
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Graduate Quantum Computation: A Single Qubit's Infinite Possibilities
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Graduate Parity Operator: Revealing Function Parity & Its Role in Conservation
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Graduate What is vacuum polarization and vacuum de-polarization ?
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Graduate Questions about quantum field theory
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Graduate [Q]Conserative theorem and parity
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Graduate Formalism and Angular Momentum Expectation Values
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Graduate What is the interpretation of a mass term in field theory?
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Graduate Quantum state: how many bases?
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime?
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Graduate Question regarding a two particle system
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Graduate Why do antiparticles annihilate on contact with normal matter?
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Graduate Quantum logic gate measurement?
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Graduate [Q]Time deviation of expectation value
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Graduate Vector currents, vector fields and bosons
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Graduate Divergences in the sense of QFT
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Graduate Time Evolution of Gaussian Wave packets
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Graduate Operators having Hermitian/Antihermitian part?
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