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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad Valid local explanation of Bell violations? (Pegg et al., 1999; 2008)
Undergrad Necessity of Quantum Gravity given Planck scales for nuclear physics
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Undergrad Bell's Theorem - why product of (2)spins can be +1 (Griffith's text)
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Is randomness real or the inability to perceive hyper complex order?
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Undergrad Solve the particle in a box problem using matrix mechanics?
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Undergrad Representing Quantum Gates in Tensor Product Space
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Graduate Reference frame of the vacuum -- which forum?
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Undergrad Spin-orbit interaction and two inconsistent values
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Undergrad Photon absorption for an atomic electron
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Graduate Do bosons contradict basic probability laws?
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Undergrad What would the world be like if the HUP were not a thing?
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Undergrad Can an electron in the 1s orbital be indefinitely far from the nucleus?
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High School Has the Double Slit Experiment been Performed in a Near Vacuum?
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Undergrad Experimental confirmation of the Born rule
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Undergrad The "size" of entangled particles
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Undergrad Pair production via Quantum Tunneling has negative Kinetic energy?
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Undergrad Does quantum theory describe light as a wave?
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Undergrad What is the meaning of the mass assigned to an individual quark?
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Undergrad Wilson-Sommerfeld quantization to solve square-well potential
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Graduate Eigenstates of ##\phi^4## theory
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Graduate Spin dynamics and the Pauli exclusion principle
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Undergrad Meaning of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Super Chiral Light
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Undergrad Hyperfine Splitting: Get Help Understanding It
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Undergrad Physical question about Phonons
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Undergrad Dirac Lagrangian and Covariant derivative
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Graduate Amplitudes for ##\phi^4## theory
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Undergrad Normal order and overlap of states
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Undergrad Can a Hamiltonian with non-spherical potential commute with l^2?
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QFT question about using momentum raising and lowering operators
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Graduate Functional Determinant of a system of differential operators?
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High School Quantum Tunneling different individual transmission probabilities
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Undergrad Spin in Real Space: Meaning of Z-Component
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Graduate Converting between field operators and harmonic oscillators
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Undergrad Schrodinger equation on the complex disk
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Undergrad The wave function in the finite square well
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Undergrad Understanding the Role of Space Energy Propagator in Quantum Field Theory
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Undergrad On 1/2 spin - which is the X axis?
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Undergrad Confusion about position state kets
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Graduate 2-electron system under compression
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Graduate Absorption of an Exciton and Exciton propagation
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Graduate How to calculate the interband velocity matrix in a graphene system
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Undergrad Quantum operators and trasformation under rotations
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Undergrad Explaining atoms and bonding using entropy
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Undergrad Matrix Representations of the Poincare Group
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Graduate Concurrence as a measure of entanglement
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Undergrad Using general relativity to violate the uncertainty principle
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Undergrad Double Slit Interference Question
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Undergrad Double Slit Interference Question II
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Graduate Quantum computers and Annular Josephson junctions
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment Question
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Undergrad Double slit-experiment confusion
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High School Can entangled electrons in helium be observed and measured in practice?
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High School Understanding Photon in a Box: Eigenmodes, Reflection, and Energy Measurement
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Undergrad Why isn't the Goldstone boson on the Standard Model map?
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Undergrad Really? Schrödinger's cat again?
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Undergrad Why is the speed of photons different?
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Graduate Quantum finance equation explanation please
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Undergrad Is Quantum Mechanics Infinitely More Complex than Classical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Lorentz violation, multiple preferred frames, vacuum energy
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Undergrad Physicists entangle 15 trillion hot atoms
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Undergrad Struggling with one step to show quantum operator equality
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Graduate Ground state energy of a particle-in-a-box in coordinate scaling
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Graduate What is the cause of radioactive decay?
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Undergrad A question about operator power series
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Undergrad What happened to the spatial degrees of freedom for the second particle?
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Undergrad Question about this "Quantum laser pointer" that I bought
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Undergrad QED on electromagnetic interactions in atoms
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Undergrad Is it possible for non-spherical atomic orbitals to have spherical symmetry?
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Graduate Contribution of vacuum fluctuation to the self-energy of the electron
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Graduate Hartle-Hawking sum over all possible metrics?
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Undergrad Question about simultaneous measurement
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Undergrad Understanding how to get the unpolarized cross-sections
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Undergrad Maximum violation of Bell's Inequalities?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Calculate the Frequency of an Atomic Clock?
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High School Bell's theorem, QFT, and the Relativity of Simultaneity
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Graduate Quantum Period is Compression Robust
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Graduate Positive polarity of a retarded Green's function's imaginary part
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Undergrad Seeking better explanation of some quantum stats formulae
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Graduate Question: Unambiguous discrimination between two non-orthogonal states
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Undergrad Feynman's Lectures volume III (Ch:8) -- Resolution of vector states
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Undergrad Partition function of quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Clebsch–Gordan coefficients: An Identity
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High School What happens to the uncertainty principle if....
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Undergrad Probability of finding a particle in a 1-D box max. at centre?
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High School Compressing Light: Reflection in Small Gaps
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Undergrad Quantum Field Operators for Bosons
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High School Question about notation in the Feynman Lectures on Physics III 3-1
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High School Why are protons allowed in the nucleus?
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High School Uncertainty versus impossibility of measurement
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Undergrad Can the spin cause the collapse?
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Graduate Should tensor sum be used in matrix mechanics?
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Undergrad Many-Worlds Theory: Simulation Program in C#
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Undergrad Invariance of a system under symmetry operations
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High School Virtual Particles are not Dark Matter?
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Undergrad Commutator of ##L^2## with ##L_x,L_y,L_z##...
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Graduate Understanding how to derive the differential cross-section formula
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Undergrad The period-finding circuit for Shor's algorithm
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High School What Is the Occurrence Rate of Path Integral in a Photon Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Off-diagonal elements in a density matrix
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Graduate Relation between Dirac's equation density matrix and current with spin
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Insights Clarifying Common Issues with Indistinguishable Particles
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