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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Alternative model for counterfactual definiteness in Bohm-like EPR
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Undergrad Definition of the potential energy operator
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Understanding Black Hole Evaporation with Hawking Radiation
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Hawking radiation and negative gravitational charge
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How Do Spin-1 Particles Behave in Stern-Gerlach Experiments?
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Covalent bonding has limited range?
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Transmission Coefficient of a Rectangular Square Potential Barrier
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Dual particle and dual double slit interference
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Mesons Violate Bell's Inequality?
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How to calculate the photon flux of monochromatic light?
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Discover Ne^9 Energy Levels Using NIST Database - Missing Values?
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Time period measured in double slit experiment
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Can magnetism exist outside of any non-inertial motion, such as spin?
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Could wave/particle duality have to do with the speed limit of light?
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Question about quantum computing theory
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Isn’t Bell’s probability density for hidden variables too restrictive?
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HUP and the Double-Slit Experiment
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Undergrad The deduction of Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distrbiutions
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Double slits separation & electron field size
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Quantum Time Experiment: Teleporting Information Across Time Confirmed
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How particles become localized
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Graduate Relativistic derivation of E=1/2MV^2 from QFT or Diriac or other
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Spin projections on different axis
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Two spin 1/2 partcles and spin operators
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Wave packet moving in a magnetic field
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Uncertainty Principle and Fourier Transforms
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No Cloning Theorem: Understand Why It Violates Uncertainty
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EPR, QM, & Clearing Up Mysteries - Ed Jaynes' Original Goal
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Atom Wave Function: Definition & Explained
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Graduate Functional Derivatives in Q.F.T.
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Undergrad Is it possible for something to be smaller than a Planck length?
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Undergrad Is Gravity an Observer in Schrödinger's Cat Experiment?
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Graduate Is the cluster decomposition equivalent to no phase transitions?
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Undergrad Advanced Dirac Notation Question
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Undergrad The 4 solutions to the Dirac equation
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Undergrad Van der Waals force in quantum physics
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Graduate Macroscopic systems in the quantum theory book by Asher Peres
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Undergrad Vacuum energy length scale detectable by the Casimir effect?
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Undergrad How can a photon have no mass if it has momentum?
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Graduate Why are there only two possible spin-eigenstates for deuterium's nucleus?
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High School So can I use "wave particle duality?"
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Undergrad Reconciling Determinism and Superposition in Quantum Theory
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Graduate Finding E_J Value of a Qubit: Step-by-Step Guide
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Undergrad Can the Energy of Ammonia Molecule Be Defined in a Non-Eigenstate State?
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Graduate LS vs jj couplings and their selection rules
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Undergrad Question about why QFT in 4D is undefined
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Undergrad Time evolution of an expectation value
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Undergrad Question about photon wave packets
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Insights 9 Reasons Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete - Comments
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Undergrad What is "to the first order in H"?
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Undergrad Would a Quantum Theory of Gravity dispense with the Inverse....
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Undergrad Lawrence Krauss: Quantum Mechanics is deterministic (video)
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Undergrad Do Photons Decay? QED Predictions & Measurements
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Undergrad Why no position operator for photon?
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Undergrad Single ket for a product of two wave functions
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Undergrad Confusion on binding energy and ionization energy.
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Can we have a proton and an antiproton in the 1^S_0 atomic orbital
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Undergrad Which-path info exists = deterministic context?
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High School Is quantum superposition the same as regular superposition in physics?
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Undergrad Clarifying causes of correlations
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High School Particle properties conclusion from no-slit diffraction
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High School How do I explain quantum superposition?
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Undergrad 1D scattering: Taylor expansion
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Undergrad Locality and Wave Function Collapse Implications
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Undergrad Doubt in the quantum harmonic oscillator
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Undergrad Particle in a box experiment confirmation
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Graduate Why is this Pilot-wave model on a discrete spacetime stochastic?
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High School How can a mirror reflect 99,999% of incident light?
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Insights The Quantum Mystery of Wigner's Friend - Comments
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Undergrad Can Two Particle-in-a-Box Systems Interact to Affect Entropy?
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Undergrad Very simple explanation of Wigner's friend needed
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Insights A First Idea of Quantum Field Theory - 20 Part Series - Comments
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Graduate Vector sum schemes for LS coupling & jj coupling
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Undergrad Two identical spin 1/2 particles
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Graduate Path Integral Approach To Derive The KG Propagator
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Undergrad Trouble with cubical cavity radiation
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Undergrad New book on the foundations of quantum mechanics
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High School Taking Quantum Computers into Space
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Undergrad Double slit interactive detector
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Undergrad Calculating the number of energy states using momentum space
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Undergrad Divergent vacuum uncertainty of fields in QFT, how to resolve?
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Undergrad Confusion about the Concept of Operators
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Undergrad Space is discrete or continuous?
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High School Is Born's rule really verified?
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Undergrad How to quantum mechanically describe the photon?
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High School Are there unverifiable assertions about probabilities
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Undergrad Does String Theory Justifiably Extend Gravitational Laws to Sub-Planck Lengths?
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Undergrad Normalisation constant for identical particles
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High School Why is L=2 not acceptable for carbon according to Hund's second rule?
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Undergrad Does Quantum Mechanics Suggest a Conservation of Possibilities?
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Undergrad The Planck length and string theory
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Undergrad Arrow of time and its reversal on a IBM quantum computer
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Undergrad Relation between spectral radiance and density of cavity
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Undergrad "Basic" question about Grover's Quantum Computing algorithm
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Undergrad Will quantum computation lower energy requirements?
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Undergrad Entanglement vs. Coherence in SPDC
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High School Delayed choice quantum communication - "Berlin riddle"
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Undergrad Maxwell Tensor Identity Explained: Deriving Formula 8.23 in Schawrtz's Book
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Undergrad Requesting help with the uncertainty principle equation
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Undergrad Vacuum projection operator and normal ordering
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