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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad Valid local explanation of Bell violations? (Pegg et al., 1999; 2008)
High School Quantum Entanglement Communication Radio
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Undergrad What is the paradox in the EPR paradox?
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Undergrad Understanding the meaning of "uncertainty" in Heisenberg's UP
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High School How does the electric field of an electron compare to its probability wave?
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Graduate Understanding Cartan subalgebra applied to the n-harmonic oscillator
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Discussing the mathematical formalism of generators (Lorentz Group)
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High School How to differentiate b/w two collapsed values in Bell States
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Trying to make sense of the double slit "experiment"
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Undergrad QED - ordering of Feynman diagram rules
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Undergrad Measuring Entangled Particles in two different Basis
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Undergrad A query regarding Rotational Invariance
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Undergrad Did Anyone Create an Anti-Hydrogen Beam?
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Undergrad Possible paradox in the uncertainty principle?
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High School Simulators for Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad A query regarding Spin Entanglement Measurement
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High School Can spontaneous emission be considered a thermodynamic process?
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Undergrad Stern-Gerlach w. normal distribution if magnets were more separated?
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High School When the wave function collapses, how long is it collasped?
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Undergrad A question about the Collapse of a Wavefunction
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Undergrad Has this photon experiment ever been done?
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Undergrad Confused about perturbation theory
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High School A few basic questions about the absorption/emission of photons
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Undergrad Two slit experiment with different sized slits
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High School When are particles in a superposition of states?
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Undergrad Maxwell's Demon and the Uncertainty Principle
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Undergrad Photon & Wave Mode: Equivalent or Not?
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Graduate Boundary conditions of eigenfunctions with Yukawa potential
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Graduate Invariance of discrete Spectrum with respect a Darboux transformation
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Undergrad Physics from Symmetry: Superb Book for Learning QM & More
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Undergrad I don't understand about infinitesimal translation
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Undergrad Does vacuum excitation violate the conservation of energy?
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Undergrad Entanglement of Electrons Through Experiments: What's Possible?
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Undergrad Understanding Time Crystals: A Beginner's Guide
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Undergrad Is the small world uncertain, or is that just our perception?
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Undergrad Measurement of Entangled Particles causes up or down spin?
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High School Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state
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Undergrad Superposition of large objects
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Undergrad Microscopic and macroscopic physics
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Undergrad Photon Momentum: The Impact of Light on Movement in Space
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High School Speed of electrons in a 2-slit experiment
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Undergrad Confused about the AC Stark effect
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Undergrad What Do Phase Space Path Integrals Compute?
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Undergrad Condtion on transformation to solve the Dirac equation
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Do photons, phonons and electrons have mass?
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There is a high concentration of introductory material on wave-particle duality
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High School Can a particle / wave pass through a sheet of material?
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High School Uncertainty Principle versus spin alignment
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Undergrad Quantum Eraser: do entangled photons arrive at different moments?
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Graduate Compton Recoil and the Electron Differential Cross Section
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Graduate Quantum Ising model correlation function query
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Undergrad Physically acceptable solutions to the Schroedinger equation?
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Undergrad How to prove that some fields are different aspects of one general field?
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Undergrad Changing the effective mass of an electron using electric potentials?
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Undergrad Conductors and weak interaction
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Undergrad Relation between spin and solar winds
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Graduate How does one make a macroscopic object?
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Undergrad The reference frame for angular momentum components
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High School Does the future affect the past in a quantum world?
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Undergrad Correlation between Symmetry number & Total wavefunction
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High School Stern-Gerlach experiment - please confirm this surprising result
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High School Are electromagnetic wavelength and quantum wavelength the same thing?
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Graduate Derive the Principle of Least Action from the Path Integral?
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Graduate Can Bohmian Mechanics Effectively Address Relativistic Quantum Field Theories?
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High School Searching for a Lost PhD Thesis on Black Holes
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Graduate J-aggregation and H-aggregation differences
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High School Why don't electrons fall into the nucleus?.
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Undergrad Schiff moment in classical electrostatics
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Undergrad How do you normalize this wave function?
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High School Quantum Entanglement spin measurement
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Graduate How Can I Address the Divergence in $\phi$ and $\ket{\overrightarrow{P}}$?
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High School Why is an electron's changing behaviour upon observation fascinating?
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Undergrad How did Schrödinger find his equation?
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Undergrad Can an electron quantum tunnel inside the potential barrier?
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Graduate General Covariance in Quantum Field Theory
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Undergrad Relativistic quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Repulsion before the screen in a double-slit experiment
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Insights Misconceptions about Virtual Particles - Comments
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Undergrad Are Energy Eigenstate Coefficients Real-valued?
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Undergrad Probability of neutrino switching: more massive, more probable?
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Undergrad Closure in the subspace of linear combinations of vectors
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Graduate Number of thermal photons in a real (finite Q) cavity
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Undergrad Exponential of momenta to entangle harmonic oscillators
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Undergrad Proof of Commutative Operators for Simultaneous Measurement
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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum in positron-electron annihilation
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Graduate Normalization of the radial part of the spherical harmonics
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High School Quantum Micro-Blackholes: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Calculate a spin state as a function of the base spin states
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Graduate Anyone actively experimenting?
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High School Is diamagnetism only present with varying magnetic fields?
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Graduate Resolving the Paradox: Combining Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity
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Undergrad How to determine Spinor in Feynman diagram
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Undergrad Quantum spaces without classical counterparts?
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High School How Could Quantum Communications Operate at Light Speed Given Relativity?
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Undergrad Renormalisation and running of the φ^3 and other coupling constants
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High School Double Slit Paradox: A Wave-Particle Mystery
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High School The nature of orthogonal oscillations (extending E&M)
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Undergrad Understanding the wrong way to quantize the Dirac Field | Part 1
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Undergrad Jonsson’s apparatus for photons rather than electrons
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Undergrad What is the nature of the photons?
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Undergrad Prove that the norm squared of a superposition of two states is +ve
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