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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Graduate Announcing QM Course: Study Group for JJ Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate QM: Is Electron Behavior Random?
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Graduate Is the following operator hermitian? C|Phi> = |Phi>*
  • Allday
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Graduate How Does Quantum Epistemology Challenge Our Understanding of Knowledge?
  • selfAdjoint
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Undergrad I beleive that light is absorbed by the nucleus of an atom
  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Higher dimensions, quantum inflations, multiverses, and their interactions.
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Graduate Schrödinger's cat comes closer: Nature
  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Feyman's sum over path hypothesis
  • sage
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Graduate I need detailed information about the ionization of atomic hydrogen
  • schwinger55
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Graduate Quantum effects in very small scale numerical modelling
  • Tyro
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What Makes Holeum a Unique Journey Through Light and Darkness?
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Graduate Quantum Information Processing
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Graduate What is the relationship between wavelength and probability for matter waves?
  • bhthiang
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Graduate Observation: more decoherence or interference?
  • Loren Booda
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Choosing an Undergraduate Thesis Topic: Tips and Ideas
  • jby
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Graduate Gravitational quantum detection
  • drag
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Graduate Does Bose Einstein Condensate Defy the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
  • Hyperreality
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Graduate Is Teleportation Scientifically Feasible?
  • Whitestar
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Graduate What Are Hardy's Axioms and Their Role in Quantum Theory?
  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Can dark matter/energy disobey special relativity?
  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Is time travel possible in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics?
  • Ontoplankton
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Graduate How about: Can realistic boundary conditions cure the Casimir energy divergence?
  • selfAdjoint
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Graduate Is It Valid to Use Free Theory Expansion in Interacting Field Theory?
  • selfAdjoint
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Graduate Attn: chi meson re. explination of bose-Einstein condensation
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Graduate When is a Photon Real or Virtual?
  • Tyger
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Graduate What are the key drawbacks of quantum theory?
  • Inquiring_Mike
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Graduate How do quantum orbitals prevent radiation in atoms?
  • Rockazella
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Graduate What Are the Key Concepts of Quantum Theory?
  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Quantum Field Computation: Beyond Quantum Computing?
  • Ontoplankton
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Graduate Is It Possible to Overcome the H.U.P.?
  • Whitestar
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Graduate Can We Overcome The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
  • Whitestar
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Graduate Quantum Gravity and Inflation -a new paper
  • marcus
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Graduate Causality, the law of cause and effect
  • heusdens
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High School Tell me what is quantum theory?
  • benzun_1999
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High School Explore Compton's Effect: Uncovering the Mystery
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Graduate Oops, I accidentally figured out quantum uncertainty.
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Q-Element: Ancient Building Block of Heavens
  • Greg Bernhardt
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High School Good books on quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What is Bell's Theorem and its implications in quantum physics?
  • cytokinesis
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Graduate What are some real experiments on Bose-Einstein Condensates?
  • Tyger
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Graduate Helium Wave Functions: One or Two for Electrons? Evidence & Implications
  • MiCasilla
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Graduate Separating Schrodinger's Equation
  • MiCasilla
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Graduate Separating Schrodinger's Equation
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Graduate Can the Casimir effect be harnessed for free energy and anti-gravity?
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Graduate How does QM represent the Poynting vector?
  • Rockazella
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Graduate Stern Gerlach Experiment: Understanding the Unexpected Results
  • MiCasilla
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain Freak Ocean Waves?
  • meemoe_uk
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Graduate Is Quantum Field Theory Logically Consistent?
  • davidpbrown
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Graduate Tunneling and transmission coefficient
  • Sacroiliac
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Graduate Looking for a Beginner-Friendly QM Book?
  • Farn
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Graduate Could Virtual Wavefunctions Revolutionize Quantum Mechanics?
  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Physics today rely on an observer
  • sophia
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Graduate Is Quantum Physics Practical for Engineering Applications?
  • Farn
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Graduate Algorithm of the numerical decision of stochastic Shrodinger equation.
  • Alexey
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Graduate Topological quantum field theories
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Graduate Stochastic Shrodinger equations.
  • Alexey
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Graduate The Effects of Distance and Mass on the Casimir Force
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Graduate Superfluid model of quantum gravity?
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Graduate Quantum tunneling as transportation
  • Tiberius
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Graduate The Vacuum Energy is fictitious.
  • Tyger
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Graduate Quantum phenomena on different scales
  • Zhang Xu
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Graduate Can Macroscopic Objects Exist in Eigenstates?
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Graduate I am here but i am also over there, can this be?
  • Andy
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Graduate Experimental Testing of Uncertainty Principle: Implications
  • FZ+
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Graduate Understanding Wave Packets and their Role in Particle Physics
  • jby
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Graduate What is the relationship between energy and position in quantum mechanics?
  • Sacroiliac
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Graduate Canonical Quantum Gravity-some history/bibliograph
  • marcus
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Graduate Gravitational Double Slit Experiment: What Does Modern Physics Say?
  • drag
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Graduate Ashtekar quantum cosmology paper new this month
  • marcus
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Graduate Quantum geometry includes matter
  • marcus
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity: Understanding How Gravity Occurs
  • Tyger
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Graduate Is Uncertainty the Key to Understanding Activity at a Quantum Level?
  • Selnex
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Graduate Bose Einstein condensate can be made to attract
  • wolram
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Graduate For how long does a measurement collapse a wave function?
  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate The connection in Loop Quantum Gravity
  • marcus
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Graduate Explaining Quantum Theory Math
  • wolram
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Bearden's Quantum Physics
  • wolram
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Graduate What is the wave function of an atom in my table?
  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate What are spin networks and how do they give rise to space and matter?
  • jby
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Graduate Can we teleport a Big Mac using quantum technology?
  • Singularity
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Graduate How does the Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) explain quantum weirdness?
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Graduate Normal ordering for bosons vs fermions
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Graduate Loop Dreams Loop Quantum Gravity Dreams that is
  • eNtRopY
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Undergrad What Are the Mysteries of Quantum Tunneling?
  • Jack
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Graduate Can Periodic Hamiltonian and Translation Operators Share Eigenstates?
  • eNtRopY
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Undergrad Quantum Dots & Wells: Overview & Explanation
  • Adam
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Graduate Can Electron Fluctuations Lead to Quantized Time?
  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Bell's inequality in Quantum Entanglement
  • Luong tu Khanh
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Graduate What's the Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem?
  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate E=hw vs [x,p]=ih: Quantum Postulates Compared
  • arivero
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Graduate If the vacuum is a sea of energy
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Graduate Understanding STM: The Role of Tunneling Current in Atom Manipulation
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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Zero-Point Energy and Casimir Appareture
  • drag
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Paradoxical?
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Graduate Can Time Be Represented as an Operator in Quantum Mechanics?
  • arivero
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Graduate What is the Error Range for Planck's Constant in CODATA's Concise Form?
  • dav2008
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Graduate What it's like to vanish-QM and the nature of consciousness
  • Steven Taylor
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Graduate Using the Schrodinger Equation to Find Particle Wave Functions
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Graduate What Is the Width of a Quantum Well for a 450nm Photon Transition?
  • SuperCheetah
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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Logic and Quantum Mechanics?
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