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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Graduate Why do we know that an elementary particle is a point particle?
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Undergrad Particle in free space - what happens to the wave function after measurement?
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Graduate What are the units of the radial wavefunction in my FORTRAN code?
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Graduate Time Evolution of a Square Pulse - Fourier
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Undergrad Is this a new theory, an enhanced theory or just philosophy?
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Undergrad Quantum Jumps and Schrodinger's Cat are predictable
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High School Photon exchange in molecular bonds
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Undergrad What is the true state of a particle in superposition?
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Graduate Is the wavefunction subjective? How?
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Undergrad Can Brain Responses to Quantum Signals Determine True Quantum Interpretation?
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Undergrad Do spin operators 'appear' to commute for an entangled spin state?
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Undergrad Is there a procedure for designing some quantum circuits?
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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle in the context of tracking particle paths
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Undergrad Communicating Via Quantum Entanglement Using Time Differentiated Pulse
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Graduate Can the Huygens-Fresnel principle be translated into path integrals?
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Undergrad The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Role of mass and quantum gravitational effects in friction?
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Graduate Observables when the symmetry is not broken?
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Undergrad Is the Basis in Quantum Physics a Fundamental Property of Objects?
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Undergrad Why Would Observation Change Anything Physically?
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Undergrad Question About The Role of Observation in Quantum Mechanics
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Insights Vacuum Fluctuations in Experimental Practice - Comments
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Graduate On the Planck Blackbody Function
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Undergrad Classicality and the Correspondence Principle
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Undergrad Value of beta in Boltzmann Statistics taking degeneracy into account
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Undergrad How to know where the up and down spin go in the wavefunction?
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Graduate What is the significance of nonlocality super-activation in this paper?
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Undergrad Does this hint of entanglement within protons suggest new physics?
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Undergrad The information paradox and non-locality, ER = EPR
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Graduate What it is the internal space?
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Graduate Someone observing Wigner and his friend
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High School Phase shift in Mach-Zehnder interferometer
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Undergrad Can You Help Me Couple 3 Spin 1/2 Particles?
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Undergrad Explanation of spin degrees of freedom with respect to the x axis
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Undergrad Attractive force of opposite charges by McIrvin
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Undergrad D'Alembertian in Sakurai's Advanced QM book
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Graduate How does Lorentz invariance help evaluate tensor integrals?
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High School Loss of information and Quantum Determinism
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Undergrad According to quantum physics, can our universe be a simulation?
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Graduate Experimental evidence of non-local quantum forces
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Undergrad Entangle Distant Particles: Theoretical Possibility?
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Graduate Does the effective action make sense in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Understanding Color & Temperature
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Graduate QFT Srednicki Chap 6: Weyl Ordering
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High School Are photons the wave sources of Huygens-Fresnel principle?
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Insights The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanical Commutator
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Undergrad About the Feynman Path Integral and Principle of Least Time
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Graduate Influence of strong measurements in a Two Slit Interferometer
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High School Double Slit Wave Interference With Single Electrons
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High School Was Bell's hypothesis verified?
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Undergrad Orthogonal state with m = 0 carries s = 0 .... explanation?
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Undergrad Viewing light at four trillion frames per second
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Graduate Is the Klein-Gordon equation a quantization of classical particles?
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Undergrad Doubt about a probability density
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High School Measuring a circle and the Uncertainty principle
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Undergrad Confusions about some symbols in QC
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Undergrad Relational Hidden Variables (Real ensemble or thermal?)
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Undergrad Instantly reformable wave packets instead of "particles"?
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High School "Slowly varying" potential for WKB approximation
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High School Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - does it always apply?
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Undergrad Pauli spin matrices under inversion and 180 degree rotation?
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Undergrad Solving the Quantum Mechanics of a Hydrogen Atom
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Undergrad Electron wave funtion harmonic oscillator
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Undergrad What Is the Correct Order for Multi-System Bra Vectors in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Projection Operators: Pi, Pj, δij in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad How are apparently 'continuous' blackbody spectra formed?
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Undergrad Fine Structure Spectra: Understanding Electron Intrinsic Spin Effects
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Graduate Are there conditions for the vanishing of geometrical phases in QM?
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Graduate Dipole moment operator and perterbations
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Undergrad Why does a photon have parity -1
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Undergrad What is the failure of superposition in quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad Are electromagnetic waves sine waves?
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Graduate Crossing degeneracies and geometrical phases
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High School Potassium or other minerals and the photoelectic effect
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Undergrad Applying an observable operator on the current state
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Graduate Suppose there is an extra compact dimension, and suppose
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Graduate How to prove this property of the Dual Strength Field Tensor?
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Graduate What does "solving a quantum mechanics problem" mean?
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Graduate Infinite Photons: How Can an Infinitesimal Time Range Create an Infinity?
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Undergrad Pauli matrices and shared eigenvectors
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Undergrad The Schmidt decomposition in QC
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Undergrad Calculating Momentum Operator Matrix Elements from <φ|dH/dkx|ψ>
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High School Is spacetime a quantum error correcting code?
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Graduate Counting States / Uncertainty principle
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Graduate Rotational energy levels vs l quantum number
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Undergrad How does the Pauli exclusion principle work?
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High School Does a photon contain a pair of spinning charges?
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High School What's causing the "spooky action at a distance?"
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High School Double Slit experiment and the path of least Action
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High School Is it possible to change a fundamental property of a particle?
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Graduate Quantum virial and confinement
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Graduate Pascal Principle with photons in a U tube
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Graduate Quantum coherence in a gas sample
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Graduate Why the probabilistic approach is not more prominent in QFT?
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High School How can you ensure that the particle has already been entangled?
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Graduate Van der Waals Interaction
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Graduate Difference between chemical potential, ionization energy, band gap energy, and Fermi level?
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Graduate Can an object be at rest in its own reference frame?
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Graduate Can EM fields exhibit the same energy-momentum tensor as gravitational waves?
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High School How do we know the electron is not a field of energy?
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