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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool?
Graduate Move over, quantum cryptography
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Graduate How Do Dipole Moments Affect Molecular Energy in Electric Fields?
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Graduate What is the explanation for the 25% probability in Bell's Gedanken Experiment?
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Undergrad Why do magnets attract or repel each other?
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Graduate Books for Quantum field theory?
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Graduate Finding Schrödinger & De Broglie's 1926 Quantum Physics Papers
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Effects on Particle 'b
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Graduate Does the Equivalence principle holds in QM.
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Graduate Teleportation (new Danish experiment with light and cesium atoms)
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Graduate QM: Time-Varying Forces & Potential Energy
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High School I hear a lot about nonlocality and it's relationship to QM
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Graduate Eading in many books that the unification of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Determinism?
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Graduate Fundamental process of a photon elastically scattering from an electon
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Graduate Hilbert space of direct products
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Graduate How Do Force Particles Like Photons and Gluons Exert Attraction?
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Graduate About violation of Bell's inequalities
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Graduate Why do symmetry and Hamiltonian operators commute?
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High School Particle & Wave Nature of EM Energy: Questions Answered
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Graduate How do we know a state function will stay normalized?
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Graduate Is the Relativistic Mass of Light Affecting Quantum Experiments?
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Graduate Solution of hydrogen atom : legendre polynomials
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Graduate 2-slits, 2-observers, 2-languages, 2-outcomes ?
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Graduate Reflection of a High-Energy Particle at a Potential Barrier
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Graduate Operators in a three level system
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Graduate Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects
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High School Protons + Neutrons + Electrons =?
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Graduate Is it true that unitary transform in QM corresponds to canonical transform
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High School What Is an Electron?
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Graduate What is the phenomenon of synchronized electron orbits?
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Graduate Learning QFT from Peskin and Schroeder
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Graduate The vacuum in QFT. What is it. Why have it. Does everyone believe in it?
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Graduate Time Arrow: Entropy & Energy - QP Explored
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Graduate Double Slit: Measurement Device & Screen Combination?
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Graduate Born Conditions on Wavefunctions
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Graduate Walk Through Walls - Wave Variance and You
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Undergrad What Makes the Resonance Square Experiment a Unique Physics Demonstration?
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Graduate Delayed choice quantum eraser question
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Graduate Probability of zero in stationary wave state
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Graduate How can the particle fit in the well then?
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Graduate Do Particles Always Follow Fixed Laws in the Universe?
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Graduate Wave/Particle duality experiment?
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Graduate Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Spin Orbit Coupling
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Graduate The time before sentient beings
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Graduate Fowler Nordheim Tunnelling -
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Graduate Calculating Uncertainty in z with Method 1 & Method 2
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Graduate Speed of universe and quantum theory
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Graduate Double slit experiment with macroscopic size objects
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics for Military Officers
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Graduate Wien's displacement law. A paradox
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Graduate Minimum Uncertainty Wavefunction
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator with fermions
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High School Visualizing the Atom: Find a Way to See Inside
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Graduate Casimir Force: Where Does the Energy Come From?
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Graduate Transition from Poisson brackets to commutors?
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Graduate LHV simulation for bell setup based on photon bunching
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Graduate Can Multiple Universes Coexist and Interfere with Each Other?
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Graduate What Does O(\hbar^2) Mean in Commutation Relations?
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Graduate Understand Decoherence in Quantum Computers: How Heat Affects Qubits
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Graduate Two slit experiments with things other than photons
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Graduate How Many Quantum States Can Four Bosons Have in a Harmonic Oscillator?
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Graduate Beyond Schrodinger's Cat - a Television Appearance
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Graduate Polarization Vector for Quantum EM Field
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Graduate Origin of Universe: Big Bang Theory
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Graduate What is CAT State? Explaining Beryllium Experiments
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Undergrad Do All Temperatures Emit Multiple Wavelengths in Blackbody Radiation?
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Graduate Wave-particle duality question
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Graduate Can Gamma Rays Alone Create Electron-Positron Pairs?
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Graduate Help! Physics Confuses Me: Understanding Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Taking up QFT for the first time
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Graduate Entangled states in the classical limit
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Graduate Density of States: Explanation & Applications
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Graduate Is Direct Brute Force Quantization Possible for Equations of Motion?
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Graduate Angle of pilot wave through apperature?
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Undergrad Preference for lower energy states?
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Graduate Energy States of Electrons in Free Space
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Graduate Exploring Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Quantization on momentum space
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Graduate About the behaviour of a beam-splitter
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Solving the Riddle of Chaotic Particle
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Graduate Peer-Reviewed References for ZapperZ's Ideas on Barut and Bohm de Broglie
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Graduate Could EM/strong/weak force be expressed geometrically?
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Graduate Wave function and Uncertinaty Principle?
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Graduate System with big number of particles
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Graduate Bell's theorem and Harrison's (2006) inequality
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Graduate How does quantum mechanics affect the classical electrostatic force?
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Graduate What is the Ground State Energy of a Harmonic Oscillator?
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Graduate Why do we think particle is wave and probability also wave?
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Graduate Rotation Energy Levels and Degeneracy.
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation: Plank's Quantum States & Frequencies
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Graduate The Heisenberg Uncertainty Princeple
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Graduate Density matrix for QFT from the path integral?
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Graduate Has the Theory of Unification in Physics Been Discovered Yet?
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Graduate What is the Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Are Unphysical Renormalization Conditions in QFT Justifiable?
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Graduate Why is the square modulus of the wave function used in quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Does the equation E=mc2 prove that energy and mass are equivalent?
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Graduate Atoms, Void & Time Reversability
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Graduate Absolute Zero or Uncertainty Principal?
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Graduate Spin and orbital magnetic moments?
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