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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Undergrad Question about the Photoelectric Effect
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Graduate Transforming a Lorentz Scalar: psi-bar x psi x y_0
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Graduate Clarification on wavefunction collapse
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Graduate Quick QM: Why Does Schrodinger Eq Being 1st Order Matter?
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Graduate Pψ=aψ and wave function uniqueness
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Graduate Orthonormal basis and operators
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Graduate Wavefunction collapse: is that really an axiom
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Graduate Usefulness of Heisenberg picture?
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Graduate How does Helium-4 exhibit bosonic properties despite being composed of fermions?
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Graduate Angular Momentum Ladder Operators
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Graduate Photon, black hole, Wikipedia quote
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Graduate How can one ensure Lorentz invariance when using an external field in QFT?
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Graduate Are All Particles in Quantum Physics Excitations of Fields Like the Higgs Boson?
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Graduate Can Energy Be Calculated from a Single Point in Full CI Calculations?
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Graduate How observation leads to wavefunction collapse?
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Graduate Bell States: Problem & Effects of Phase Gate
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Graduate Spin Interference: Looking for Thought Experiments with Single Electrons
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Undergrad What Happens to a Particle's Energy When a 1D Box Shrinks?
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Graduate Solving Shor's Algorithm to Factor 15: Results & Analysis
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Graduate Significance of the hamiltonian commuting
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Graduate Is the Ground State of a System Always Pure?
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Graduate Can Entangled Photons Reveal Which-Path Information in a Double Slit Experiment?
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Undergrad Are Atoms Affected by the Big Bang Theory?
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Graduate On the helicity of the electrons
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Graduate Symmetry and conserved probability current for wave functions
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Graduate How are the positions of particles described in QFT?
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Graduate Understanding Time in Quantum Physics: Absolute vs. Relative Concepts Explained
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Graduate A photon as a phonon in ether?
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Graduate Operator Question: Evaluating \langle x |\hat{p} | \psi\rangle
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Graduate What is the relationship between wave functions and molecules?
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Graduate Is Modern Aether Theory Valid Against Einstein's Relativity?
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Undergrad About the radiation of blackbody
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Graduate Operator in non-orthogonal basis
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Graduate Who Developed the Sequential Stern-Gerlach Apparatus and Formalism?
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Graduate Complex simple Lie algebras classification
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Undergrad How The Mass Of an Electron Was Worked Out
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Graduate Very basic questions about QFT
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Graduate Understanding Spin 1/2 Particles - Writing Expressions
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Undergrad What factors determine the ability of a substance to transmit light?
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Graduate Afshar 2 slit experiment-peer review
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Undergrad What is the force that holds atoms together in a substance?
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Graduate Photons, particles and wavepackets
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Can a Cat with Toast Defy the Laws of Physics in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Is Quantum Chaos Real Despite Contradictions in Physics?
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A Book on Quantum Physics by a Russian Author
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery: Can Atoms Produce Sound Waves in Quantum Physics?
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Undergrad What do the basic notations in quantum physics mean?
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Graduate How Do Photons Exhibit Wave Interference?
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Graduate Understand Shor's Algorithm & Quantum Fourier Transform
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Graduate Commutator with r, p_r and angular momentum
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Graduate Time independent perturbation theory
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Graduate Photon Particle Wave or Straight?
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Graduate Is the Casimir Effect a Viable Source of Free Energy?
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Graduate Gordon decomposition an right current
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Graduate Pure Electron Diffraction Experiments
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Graduate Quantum uncertainty and digital data
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Graduate The use of Eigenvalues/function in QM
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Graduate Field Quantization: Is "Forces Exchanged by Particles" a Deep Concept?
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Graduate Understanding the Concept of Instantaneous Potentials in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Tracking or tagging a single atom in a gas
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Undergrad Binding Energy in U-235 and daughter atoms
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Graduate What is the Significance of Substituting p for -p in the Klein-Gordon Equation?
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Graduate Unique to within a constant factor?
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Graduate Free-Air Transmission and Quantum Effects?
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Graduate Understanding the Probability Current J
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Graduate Quantum Decoherence & Measurement Time
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Graduate Interference of two particles - how does it work?
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Graduate Time independent perturbation theory
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Graduate Entanglement and two electrons separated by the universe
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Graduate Distinguishing between superposition and hidden information
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Graduate Quantum Spin: Forgetting, Entanglement & Change
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Graduate Physical Meaning of QM Expectation Values and other ?s
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Graduate Application of true randomness
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Graduate How is electron formed? Why does it travel?
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Undergrad Absorption Spectra - Questions & Answers from NZ High School Student
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Undergrad How to Explain Wave Phase Difference Physically?
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Graduate Spin Matrix for Arbitrary Spin: A Closer Look
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Graduate How exactly does diagonalization work and how is it useful in qm?
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Graduate What is a Spinor? Is it the Coefficients of a State Ket?
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Graduate Propagation speeds in literature
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Graduate Periodic potential: Bloch's theorem
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Graduate Understanding Light Propagation for Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate What is renormalization and what does it do?
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Graduate P&S Chapter 2: Derivation of the KG Hamiltonian
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Undergrad Does Light Ever Travel Faster or Slower Than Speed C?
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Graduate Exploring the SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y Gauge Field Theory of Electroweak Interaction
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Graduate Which Formula Correctly Represents the Kinetic Orbital Momentum of an Electron?
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Graduate Finding Einstein’s Hidden Variable
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Graduate Collapses against conservation laws
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Determinism
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Graduate Simultaneous Entanglement of Particles: Frame of Reference Considerations
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Graduate Maxwell's Equations and Quantum Electrodynamics: A Comprehensive Overview
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Graduate Watching a wavefunction gradually collapse
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Graduate Relativistic quantum mechanics
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Graduate Why Hilbert Space is Necessary for Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate How Does Chirality Impact the Dirac and Weyl Equations?
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Graduate When is the Interaction representation used and why?
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Graduate DDCS: Understanding What it Measures
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Graduate Hamiltonian and energy momentum tensor
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