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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

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Undergrad Solving Quantum Mechanics Integral Equation: How to Get from (1) to (2)?
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Undergrad General solution to the Time-independent Schrödinger equation?
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Undergrad Against Collapse: A Mathematical Argument
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Graduate Has the 2-stage Stern-Gerlach experiment been performed?
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Graduate Renormalization (Electron self energy)
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Undergrad QFT - Confusion about Fermi's Golden Rule & Cross-Sections
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Undergrad The (quantum) world existing AND non-existing
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Undergrad David Deutsch (1985) attempt to solve the incoherence problem
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Undergrad What Is the Empty Space in the Double Slit Experiment's Interference Pattern?
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Undergrad Weak interaction between electrons
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Undergrad Spin matrices and Field transformations
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Undergrad Symmetries in quantum mechanics and the change of operators
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Graduate Haag's Theorem and the Poincare Group
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Undergrad Phonon Mass: Understanding its Sign and Effects on Gravity
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High School Instant Quantum Communicator: Does Time Dilation Affect Voice?
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Insights A Classical View of the Qubit - Comments
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Undergrad Momentum of a stationary particle/wave?
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Undergrad Can the quantum eraser work without coincidence?
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Undergrad Averaging Initial & Endstates in Trace Formula
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High School Does the brain use quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Concepts in a quantum synchronization setup
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Undergrad How can one know the initial state from measurements?
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Multiverse vs Ugliverse vs Quantum Monism
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Graduate Photon Spin and Polarization filters
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Undergrad Newtonian Gravity Vs. Quantum Gravity
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High School Quantum entanglement mechanics
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Undergrad Continuous variable entanglement
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Graduate Understanding Goldstone's Theorem Proof: Volume Limit and Commutator
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Undergrad Difference between spin repulsion and electrostatic repulsion of an electron?
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Graduate The relationship between random fields and quantum fields
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Undergrad Particle in a box and quantization of energy
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Undergrad The Classical Limit of Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
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Undergrad Ab Initio methods for chemical reactions?
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Undergrad Is it possible to detect an electrostatic field?
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Undergrad Does wave superposition consume time?
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Undergrad Why can't an electron be spinning?
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Undergrad Photoelectric Measurements & the Nature of Surfaces
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High School Quantum field theory and the collapse of the wave function
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Undergrad Franson interferometer: Entanglement?
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Graduate Frequency threshold in the photoelectric effect
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Undergrad Superposition Analogy: Ceiling Fan Spin Beyond 15,000 RPM
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Undergrad Parity operator and a free particle on a circle
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Undergrad Microwave photons and microwave oven doors
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Undergrad Symmetry transformation in Heisenberg vs Schrödinger Picture
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High School Question about how the nabla interacts with wave functions
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Graduate Ballentine: Decoherence doesn't resolve the measurement problem
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Undergrad Confusion about the quantum field Lorentz transformation
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Undergrad If philosophical discussions are not allowed
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Undergrad CSCO of Total Angular momentum
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High School Entangled Photons: Adam Becker's QM Book "What is Real?
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High School Does Entangled Particle Detection Prove the Spooky Action at a Distance?
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High School Would there be an upper limit to density in QM?
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Graduate Is the visualization of quantum fields as harmonic oscillators accurate?
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Graduate How to explain the nuclear radius of Uranium 238 using QM
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Undergrad What is Stochastic Quantum Mechanics (in simple terms)?
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Graduate Schrödinger's cat: what's the state?
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Undergrad Understanding the Role of k in the Wavefunction of Quantum Systems
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High School Does the Universe Consist of Information Rather Than Stuff?
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High School Thought experiment -- A radioactive decay detector and randomness
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Graduate What is the Vector Manipulation Formula for Elastic Scattering Angle?
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Graduate Confusing eigensolutions of a wave function
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Graduate Measurement and the Conservation of Momentum
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Undergrad Uncertainty of momentum and position
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Graduate Definition of bi-local measurement by Masanes et al.
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Graduate Oscillator Model with Eigenfunctions
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Graduate Structure of Matter in Quantum Field Theory
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High School Quantum entanglement comunication
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Undergrad What is the basic scheme of quantum field theories?
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Undergrad How Does Schwartz Derive the Schrödinger Equation from QFT?
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High School Help with Bell states and measurements
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Undergrad Question about noise in entanglement experiments
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Undergrad In NMR, Why does longitudinal magnetization decrease when....
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Graduate How to numerically diagonalize a Hamiltonian in a subspace?
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Undergrad Exploring the Lamb Shift: G-Factor & Angular Momentum
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High School How are outer products quantum states?
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Quantum interpretations reduced to absurd, in a nutshell
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Graduate What is best way to start learning DMRG for Fermions?
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High School Quantum entanglement phenomenon
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Undergrad What is the relation between chemical potential and the number of particles?
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Graduate Does the Bell theorem assume reality?
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High School Doesn't the choice of measurement prove free will
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Graduate Is QM Foundations Facing a Crisis?
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High School Help with math in a quantum circuit
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Graduate How to choose the number of particles per site in Fermionic DMRG?
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Graduate Perturbation solution and the Dirac equation
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Undergrad Stationary states vs. the unitary time evolution operator
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Undergrad Electrons and the Pauli exclusion principle
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Graduate Derive / verify Legendre P (cos x)
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High School Can someone explain to me what's the Schrodingers cat?
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Undergrad Electrostatic repulsion at a distance
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Undergrad PROOF: Quantum Fidelity with pure states
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Undergrad Human eyes can detect single photons?
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Undergrad Electrons in Quantum Field Theory: A Composite Excitation
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Undergrad Phase shift after double-slit for entangled photons
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Undergrad "Breaking the loop" in Casimir force?
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Graduate Does Bell's theorem imply nonlocality using a false assumption
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Undergrad Assumptions made in stationary-state scattering
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High School Entanglement Decay of a proton pair
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Undergrad Integration of the Outer Product of a Basis
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Undergrad Why is the Phase Shift in Grover's Algorithm Applied to All Elements Except 0?
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