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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate The potential step and Tunneling
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Graduate How would you define Frequency in terms of quantum model?
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Graduate Polarizers spectrum selectivity
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Graduate Measuring two dynamic quantitites
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Graduate Proving Symmetry of Solutions in 1D Potential
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Graduate At Absolute Zero: Examining He Atom Universes
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Graduate Values of the agular momentum quantum number
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Graduate Quantum mechanics: Myths and facts
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Graduate What Are Coherent States and Their Relation to Perfect Solutions?
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Graduate Can an Infinite Potential Barrier Conserve Energy in Real Life Scenarios?
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Graduate Standard deviation of expectation values
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Graduate One more question about Young's double slit experiment
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Graduate Question about electron tunneling
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Graduate Good Quantum Numbers: Helicity & Invariants
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Graduate Cool research: quantum secrets of photosynthesis
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Graduate Why do light particles behave like waves?
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High School A question and theory about light
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Graduate Something that's bothered me for a while
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Graduate Does this hold in general ? (as an approximation only)
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Graduate Position vs. Harmonic basis for solving S.E.
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Graduate Functional integral (semiclassic formula)
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Graduate Questions About Electromagnetic Radiation from Electricl Discharge
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Graduate Is Time Quantized? Investigating the Possibility
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Undergrad Why is the average moment of a dipole zero?
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Undergrad Integers in Bohr's atomic theory
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Graduate Solving Supersymmetry Q: U_R(1) Symmetry & theta*Q
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Graduate How is the conjugate momentum defined in the Schrödinger picture of QFT?
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Graduate Hidden Variable: The Role of Genetics and Parents in Twins
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Graduate Why Don't Electrons Fall into the Nucleus Despite the Coulomb Force?
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Graduate Is there no energy conservation?
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Undergrad Majorana Equation Explained for Newbies
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Equal Probabilities Explained
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Graduate Divergence of a partition function
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Graduate Degenerate perturbation theory question
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Graduate Atom's Place and Speed: A Curious Question
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Undergrad Interference Pattern: Non-Laser Light Sources
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Graduate Can a single proton be trapped in a Penning trap? And what happens to it?
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Graduate Degeneracy in 3-D Rectangular Boxes: Explained
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Graduate 2 slit trouble with vapor trails
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Graduate Understanding Wavepacket Spreading in QM
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Graduate Can Self-Study Clarify Basic Quantum Mechanics Concepts?
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Graduate Does quantum pair creation violate conservation of energy?
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Graduate Can Entanglement Challenge Our Understanding of Measurement and Simultaneity?
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High School Does Light Have Mass or Is It Just Energy?
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Graduate Central Potential: Eigenstates Depend on Coordinates
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Graduate DOes the trace determine the Hamiltonian
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Graduate N=2 Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate How Do Commutation Relations Fit into the Concept of a Lie Algebra?
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Graduate Explicit formula the nth eigenfunctions of the quantum harmonic oscillator?
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Graduate How Does Size Influence Quantum Phenomena?
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High School Position of elementary particles
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Graduate Solution to nonlinear field equations
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Graduate Phase of an Amplitude Function
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Graduate Probability of classically forbidden region
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Graduate Physical significance of othogonality condition?
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Graduate How Does the Speed of Light Reflect?
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Graduate Composite Hilbert Spaces and Operators
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Graduate Eigenfunctions in Hilbert Space, Infinite Square Wells and Uncertainty
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Undergrad Particle Stream/Beams: Possible Proton & Neutron Streaming?
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Graduate Relation between spin and its magnetic field
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Graduate Looking for introduction on QND: quantum non-demolition measurements
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Graduate What is the theoretical proof of the quantization of the energy of the EM field?
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Graduate Do the Particle and Associated Wave Always Move in the Same Direction?
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Graduate What is a "structure-less particle"?
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Graduate Definition for the term gauge symmetry
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Graduate Theoretical Limit on Frequency?
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Graduate An attempt to the Unified Theory of Physics.
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Graduate How does TDPT handle time dependent perturbations?
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Graduate My fundamental misunderstandings of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Two experiments on the Wave-Particle duality
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Undergrad Does photon have upper limit energy ?
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Graduate Hermitian Operators: Meaning & Showing Properties
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Graduate Bremsstrahlung near the cutoff frequency, experimental data
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Graduate Probability in relation to distance
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Graduate QM: Ladder Operators Explained Step-by-Step
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Graduate Questions concerning Decoherence and Entanglement
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Graduate Conditional probabilities in QM
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Undergrad Can Noble Gases Be Combined for More Vibrant Colors?
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Undergrad Bohr radius for single electron orbits
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Graduate How Can Static Fields Be Effectively Handled in Quantum Field Theory?
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High School Alternative Realities: Physics Project Help
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Graduate And another one on Lorentz invariance
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Graduate Info in nanotechnology, optical tweezers
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Graduate Relation between symmetry, charges and one-particle states
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Symmetry Breaking
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Graduate Eigenfunctions of Excited States: Why Orthogonal?
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Graduate Wave particle duality confusion
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Graduate Rigorous Determination of Bosonic and fermoinic commutation relation
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Erasure
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Graduate Solve Ernest S. Abers problems
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Graduate Bohr Model missing momentum question
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Conan - Conan and Jim Carrey Talk Quantum Physics
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Graduate Energy levels for the Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Dealing With Forces on Particles
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Graduate Parallel Universes and Quantum Computing
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Graduate Another one on Lorentz Invariance
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Graduate Is quantum mechanics applicable to blackholes?
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Undergrad Talk about electrons, double slit, interface patterns
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Graduate Proof that FTL communication quantum protocol is impossible?
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Graduate Photoelectric effect: a recreative quiz
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