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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

A question about quantum entanglement
Graduate Doublets Scalar Potential Question
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Readers’ Reactions: Is This Work Amusing?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Be Generalized Beyond Bell's Theorem?
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Graduate Understanding Griffiths' Perturbation Theory in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Why/how electron spin conserved?
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Graduate First excite electrons into a higher state for lasers
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Graduate Can a Quantum Bouncing Ball Tunnel Through an Infinite Potential Barrier?
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Graduate Why Couldn't Einstein Accept Non-Locality?
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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Defy the Law of Conservation of Energy?
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Is There a Dedicated String Forum on This Site?
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Graduate How do you convert Planck's Radiation Formula into terms of wavelength?
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Time: Examining Theories in Modern Physics
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Graduate How Does Our Understanding of Size Affect Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Unveiling the Mystery of Negative Energy and Transportation
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Graduate The Nature of Photons: Wave Packets, Existence & Manipulation
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Graduate Understanding the Complexity of Wavefunctions in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Unravelling the Mystery of J & l Quantum Numbers
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Undergrad Possible webpage title: Can You Perform Quantum Experiments at Home?
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Graduate Exploring Coherent States in the Quantum Oscillator
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Graduate Magnetic moment is an intrinsic property of elementary particles?
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Graduate What happens when two particles come within their Schwarzchild radius?
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Graduate Is There a Flaw in the Double Slit Experiment Theory?
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Graduate Is time entanglement the key to understanding the flow of time?
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Graduate Breaking quantum entanglement
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Undergrad Why can wave nature of light not explain photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Smallest Unit of Time: Planck Time Explained
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Graduate A few quantum mechanics problems
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Graduate Imagining particles, fields and interactions
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Graduate Determining uncertanity from the wave equation
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Graduate Using the energy of quantum oscillations
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Graduate Electron orbital angular momentum
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High School Frequency of Light: Explained & Examples
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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect: Explaining Cutoff Potential
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Graduate Why Does the 1-D Box Problem Present a Paradox in Momentum Eigenfunctions?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics of Rolling Balls: Learn More
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Graduate Understanding observables in QM
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Graduate Proposed Modification to Afshar's Experiment
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Graduate Understanding Physics: The Exchange of Virtual Photons
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Graduate Good introductions to quantum field theory and vacuum
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Graduate Understanding Vacuum Fluctuations Mathematically
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Graduate Quanta of massive vector fields
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Graduate Constructive Interference In Light
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Graduate Wave vs. Particle-Like Behavior
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Graduate Two-Slit & n-Slit Experiments: Explained
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Graduate What exactly does spin mean when talking about quantum physics?
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Graduate Deriving Schrodinger's Equation w/o Boundary Conditions
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Graduate Where Can I Find Translated Classical Papers on Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Maxwell distribution of kinetic energies
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Graduate General version of fermi-dirac distribution?
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Graduate Do All Electrons in a Molecular Orbital Share the Same Magnetic Quantum Number?
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Graduate Why Don't the Laws of Quantum Mechanics Work at Planck Scales?
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Undergrad Spin Hamiltonian Explained: Basics & Overview
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Graduate Pilot Wave Theory: A Viable Explanation for Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is the PDE for photons proposed by Bialynicki-Birula?
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Undergrad How can I do the double slit experiment with limited resources?
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Graduate Electrons are fired one by one in double slit-interference
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Graduate Is it possible to derive E=h f from E=h \nu in the theory of light quanta?
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High School Is it Possible? Laser Generated from Non-Absorbable Substances
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Graduate Confusion about eigenstates and wavefunctions.
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics 1D Harmonic Oscillator Simulator
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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?
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Graduate Quantum phenomena and the passage of time.
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Graduate What is the current understanding of the nature of photons?
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Graduate Understanding Photon: Models from Classical Physics to Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Why replace Hamiltonian with operator?
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Graduate Different versions of the uncertainty principle
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Undergrad Does intensity determine the occurrence of the photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Schrödinger equation: eigen value or differential equation
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Graduate What exactly is the definition of a "quantum event"?
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Graduate How Does Acceleration of Charged Particles Produce Electromagnetic Radiation?
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Graduate Why does electron have wave property
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Graduate Why is the Tr notation used in the Z=Tr(Exp(-bH)) equation for the Ising model?
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Graduate Is the Bohr model of the atom still valid in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate [Quick] States of interacting and non-interacting Hamiltonian
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Graduate Need Understandable Explanation Of Bell's Theorum
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Graduate Interaction term in path integral
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Graduate Can Photons Really Pop In and Out of Existence?
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Graduate The Semantics of Wave: Understanding the Wavefunction and De Broglie Wavelength
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Questions & Answers
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Graduate What is the difference between entangled and normal photons?
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Undergrad Inelastic collision and ideal gas law
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Graduate In an experiment, do we measure the eigenvalue or expectation value?
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Graduate Renormalization, infinitesimal charges?
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Graduate Quantum fields are the basic constituents?
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Graduate Chern Simons Spin density as hidden variable.
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Graduate Explaining Zero-Point Energy & Quantum Foam
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Graduate Entanglement Effects in Relativistic Reference Frames
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Graduate Getting Into Quantum Physics: Is It Difficult?
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Photons at same place at the same time
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Graduate A paradox about Heisneberg Uncertainty ?
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Graduate Uncertainty: Measuring Electron Position w/o Light
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Graduate Non Commutative Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Questions on Line Spectra, Orbitals and Radiation
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Undergrad The Photoelectric Effect question
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Graduate Symmetries and conserved quantities
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Graduate I won't debate on the wavefunction collapse
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Graduate Weinberg Paper: Understanding Two Loop Corrections for Gravitational Force
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Graduate How we interpret quantum physics
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Graduate Probability current versus electric current
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Graduate What is the energy loss of a solid sphere hitting a wall obliquely?
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