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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Alternative model for counterfactual definiteness in Bohm-like EPR
Graduate Uncertainty principle, removing infinity in the Fourier Transform
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Quantum Entangled Living Bacteria
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Undergrad How does magnetism work in QM?
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High School Interference fringes, what if you sample them?
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Undergrad C-G coefficients and Angular momentum
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Undergrad How does an electron interact in QFT?
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Undergrad Inner product of a vector with an operator
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High School Is Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics a Fundamental Limit or a Measurement Issue?
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High School Are Quantum Entities in Macro Sized Objects Entangled?
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Undergrad Qualitative description of particles in QFT
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Undergrad Complex conjugate of an inner product
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Undergrad Why particles have group velocity?
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Undergrad Electron Repulsion in QFT: How Does It Work in Quantum Field Theory?
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High School Understanding Entangled Electrons: Creation, Isolation, and Observation
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Undergrad How does stimulated emission work in the process of light amplification?
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Undergrad Integration being unchanged after rotation
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Undergrad Do I need energy to measure position without uncertainty?
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Undergrad Visualizing the Attached EM Field for Free Electron in QFT
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Undergrad Novel Schrodinger equation examples for 1D
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Undergrad Casimir force and the Vacuum Field
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Undergrad Double slit with a quarter wave polarizer on one slit
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High School NOVA Show on Einstein and Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Dipole moment of an isolated quantum system
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Undergrad One-Dimensional System: Boundary Condition Applicability
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Insights How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Orthodox Quantum Mechanics - Comments
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Graduate Wave functions for positrons and electrons
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Undergrad Franck-Hertz: Overall behaviour of the current
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Undergrad Why does a mercury Franck-Hertz tube produce visible light?
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High School Superposition of traps (thought experiment)
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Undergrad Annihilation vs. Creation Operators: What's the Difference?
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Undergrad Quantum Oscillator in 1D: How Can a Real Particle Have an Imaginary Velocity?
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High School Are all particles and photons entangled?
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The effect of macroscopic quantum phenomena on human evolution
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Graduate The different interference patterns in the double-slit experiment
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Undergrad Quantum Physics in Biology & Medicine: Research & Advances
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Undergrad Understanding the Spin-Statistics Theorem: A Modern Notation Approach
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Undergrad Info traveling faster than light, and quantum entanglement
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Undergrad Diffraction experiments with one particle at a time?
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Undergrad Math: classical to quantum locality
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High School The Spectral Gap and Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations
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Undergrad Hermitian and expectation values.... imaginary?
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Graduate Entangled wave function solved perturbatively
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Graduate Quantum mechanical integral equation problem
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Undergrad Space and time dependence of entangled particles
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Undergrad Double-slit experiment: Alternating results
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Particle Spinning: Why and What Happens If They Stop?
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Undergrad Wave function collapse in a double slit experiment
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Undergrad How close do electrons and positrons have to be to interact?
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Undergrad Why we do not need the total Lagrangian?
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Graduate Quantum fields and the harmonic oscillator
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High School Why Do We See Distinct Lines in Atomic Emission and Absorption Spectra?
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Undergrad Hyperfine structure - Hamiltonian and bases
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Undergrad Is the electromagnetic field of an electron in QFT a real physical field?
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Undergrad What is the significance of coupling in surface plasmons and plasmon polaritons?
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Undergrad Polarization of light and probability
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Undergrad Understanding Redshift: The Role of Relative Motion between Emitter and Absorber
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Undergrad Difference between preparing and measuring
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High School Layman question about faster than light communication
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Undergrad Multiplication of ladder-operators
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Undergrad Quantum State: Electron, Proton, and Neutron Explained
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High School Entropy -- What exactly is it?
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Graduate Green's function for the wave function
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Graduate Is the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex a quantum dot?
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Undergrad Does quantum entanglement depend on the chosen basis?
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Graduate Fermi-Dirac statistics, finding all electron configurations
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Undergrad What is the common & connection of quantum entanglement and entropy?
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Graduate How to measure the first qubit in two qubit system? QC
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Graduate Fresnel Diffraction - Opaque Barrier Question
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Undergrad Phase and group velocity for a free particle
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Undergrad Interference between an electron and a photon?
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High School Neutral pion quark composition help
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Undergrad Does Multiplying Wavefunctions Affect Their Radius?
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High School Is the classical EM wave a single photon?
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Undergrad Compound double slit with measurement on only one
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Undergrad Schmidt decomposition and entropy of the W state
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Undergrad Question about excited Helium states
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Undergrad Send the measurement device through a double slit
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Graduate How can quarks exist if they are confined?
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What is the role of Eve in a Man in the Middle attack?
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Undergrad Energy of a Wave & the Photoelectric Effect: Is My Statement Correct?
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Undergrad Diffracted photon/partice momentum
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Graduate Seeking a derivation of Schrödinger's wave equation
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Undergrad Hertz Experiment: Original Paper on Photoelectric Effect
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Undergrad The virtual photon can turn into a virtual electron positron?
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Graduate Clarification about conserved currents in the Standard Model
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Undergrad No interference if orthogonally polarized
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Undergrad Photon detector on a dual slit experiment
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Undergrad The Uncertainty Principle - question within Griffiths' Text
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Undergrad Griffiths' Intro to Quantum Mechanics - primed variables
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Undergrad How to interpret the diffraction envelope
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Undergrad Are there proposed physical processes for superposition
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Undergrad What makes a field theory relativistic?
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Undergrad Effect of Roughness on Cavity Resonator Spectrum
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Graduate Dipole, harmonic oscillator, and the coherent state
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Undergrad How Does Feynman's Theory Explain Light Reflection in Glass?
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Undergrad Mathematics of Normalization in Physics
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Undergrad What happens to entanglement inside a polarizer?
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Undergrad Can Spacetime Perturbance Reveal Paths in the Double Slit Experiment?
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Undergrad Can a qubit have a finite number of ontic states in an epistemic model?
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Graduate QFT Causality: Real Scalar Field & Probability
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