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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad Valid local explanation of Bell violations? (Pegg et al., 1999; 2008)
Undergrad Why are spinors not observables?
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Undergrad Orthonormal Basis of Wavefunctions in Hilbert Space
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Undergrad How do I derive the general expression for delta p times delta x?
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Undergrad Dressed electrons are not defined as point masses....
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Undergrad Can [A,B^n] always equal 0 if [A,B] equals 0?
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Graduate Dirac's solution to the Klein-Gordon equation
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Undergrad Historical basis for: measurement <-> linear operator?
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Undergrad Exploring the De Broglie Wave and Momentum in a Trapped Particle's Excited State
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Graduate Fourier transform of outgoing spherical waves
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High School Creation and annihilation operators in particle physics
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Undergrad Hermitian Operator Proof - Question
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Undergrad Polarizing filter not extinguish the wave although 90 degree polarizers
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Undergrad On Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
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High School Does anybody think that there is an underlying reality?
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Graduate Query in Zeidler's Volume II QFT
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Insights Interview with Astrophysicist: Adam Becker - Comments
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Insights Why the Quantum | A Response to Wheeler's 1986 Paper - Comments
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Undergrad Light Through Matter: Quantum Mechanics & Complex Vectors
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Undergrad Feynman, Hibbs Transition Amplitudes and Energy
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High School Dynamics of the double slit experiment
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Undergrad How does the Franck-Hertz experiment demonstrate energy quantization in atoms?
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Undergrad Solving SE for Particle in Box: Energy Level Relation
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Graduate 2-d and 3-d model for contact resistance of M/n-Si (book?)
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High School Quantum mechanics defies causal order
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Graduate Nanotube diameter versus emitting wavelength
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Undergrad Photons in the photoelectric efect
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High School Entangled electrons in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
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Graduate Measuring the spin of a moving Dirac spinor particle
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Undergrad Double slit one source same as no slits with two sources?
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High School Double slit experiment: What if the detector is removed quickly?
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High School Meaning of Wave Function Collapse
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Android robotics, quantum physics lab
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Undergrad Would this experiment prove consciousness causes collapse
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Undergrad What is the highest frequency of electromagnetic radiation?
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High School Is this a "fair" description of entanglement for a student?
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Undergrad Inner products on a Hilbert space
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Undergrad Entangled Photons in Opposite-Configured Mach–Zehnder Interferometers
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Graduate Reproducing Quantum Experiments
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Undergrad Is the degeneracy of N2+ different from N2?
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High School Quantum Entanglement: Hidden Information vs. Time
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Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Interacting Quantum Fields - Comments
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High School What is the Role of Sub-Particles in the Existence of Matter?
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Graduate The stability of matter: is really Maxwell wrong? (part 2).
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Undergrad Green's functions in QFT for the gifted amateur
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High School Measure Quantum States w/o Observation: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Does 'fungibility' exist in physics?
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Undergrad Dirac equation as one equation for one function
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Undergrad HHL Algorithm for Solving Linear Equations
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Undergrad Radiofrequncy Photon Wavefunction
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Undergrad Can an observed atom collapse back into a wave?
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High School Observation in the double-slit experiment
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Graduate Quantum Optics: Squeezed light generation
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Undergrad What's Known about the Wave Function and Gravity
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Undergrad FTL communication via delayed choice measurement
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Undergrad Light : Wave - particle duality
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Undergrad When should I use a plus or minus sign in space and time translations?
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High School Entanglement and delayed choice measurements
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High School Is Bell's parameter really a hidden variable ?
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High School White dwarf quantum tunnelling
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Undergrad Oracle questions in Grover's Algorithm
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Undergrad Understanding Spin & Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Particle goes through a double slit + decays, what happens?
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Graduate Quantum measurement and entropy
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High School How could a Majorana fermion exist?
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High School Theories of Quantum Physics, do they exist?
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High School Time emergent from entanglement
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Undergrad World selection in case of entanglement measurement
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Undergrad Solving the Representation of d/dq: Mistake in Reasoning?
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High School Quantum teleportation from a Curious 10 year Old
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Undergrad Standard boost, particles with mass M > 0
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High School The Nature of Measurement and Interaction in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Why are all particles of the same type identical?
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Undergrad Finding expansion coefficient of a 3-d Gaussian wave packet
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High School Is wave-particle duality a result of the relativity theory?
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High School Applying Einstein Equivalence to the Quantum Realm
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Undergrad Why is e^ikx considered a plane wave?
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High School Imaging of Light as a Particle and a Wave
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Undergrad Difference between an electromagnetic field and a photon?
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Undergrad Dimensions of the double slits in comparison to the electron?
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Undergrad Free particle: Quantum and Classical treatment
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Undergrad Imaginary Part of QHO Solutions?
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Team discovers a first-of-its-kind material for the quantum age
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Graduate Vacuum in interacting QFT and physical particles
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Graduate What is quantum synchronization?
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Undergrad Heisenberg - Uncertainty principle - lifetime of a particle
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Undergrad Would Schrödinger's bomb be as uncertain as his cat?
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Undergrad Photon detectors in a double slit experiment
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Undergrad Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (QHO)
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Undergrad Can Time Measurement with Mirrors in Special Relativity Be Improved?
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High School Photon Gas in a Box w/ Heat Conductor
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High School Tendency to use entropy to explain everything
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Undergrad Understanding second quantization
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Undergrad Commuting set of operators (misunderstanding)
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Undergrad What is the Average Angle of Infrared Emission from a Flat Diamond Surface?
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Loop Gravity Explain the Quantum World?
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Undergrad Is a measurement a correlation?
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Undergrad Identity Operator for Multiple Particles
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Undergrad Recovering Fermion States in New Formalism?
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High School Assumption of the conservation of energy to Heat Flow
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High School Probabilities with a Bell's state
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