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Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
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Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM
Undergrad List of Fields in Quantum Mechanics: Real vs. Mathematical
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Undergrad How Do Entangled Particles Communicate Information in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Does a free electron have an orbital magnetic moment?
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High School Understanding Wave-Particle Duality with Water Analogy
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Undergrad Retro-causality thought experiment
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Undergrad How Would Electron Entanglement Affect Photon Emission
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Undergrad Does spin orbit coupling cause the split in the energy level of the electron?
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High School China launches quantum-enabled satellite Micius
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Undergrad Open Source Quantum Mechanics Visualization Software
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Graduate Please help me clarify my misconception involving generators
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Undergrad How can electrons have the same spin in triplet state?
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Undergrad Unitary Processes and Completely Identical Quantum States
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Undergrad How Does the Wavefunction Evolve in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Does light only behave like a particle when observed?
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High School Cosmic Expansion: Benefits of Hubble Law over Stretching Space(-Time)
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Undergrad What does spin quantum number mean?
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Graduate Causal Nonseparability: Quantum Mechanics & Causal Principles
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High School How to Determine Particle Probability with Constant Linear Momentum?
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Undergrad Fourier's Trick and calculation of Cn
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Undergrad Are some elementary particles too massive to obey QM?
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Undergrad In the Casimir effect, can you slide plates unopposed by force?
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High School Virtual Particles and nothingness
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Undergrad Why do photons interact with e- but not with other photons?
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Undergrad Light rays don't interfere with each other
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Graduate QFT & Entanglement: NRQT vs. PCT Transform
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Undergrad How Do You Transform Qubit States Between Different Bases on the Bloch Sphere?
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Undergrad From Indistinguishable to Completely Identical Particles
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High School Double Slit Experiment with Gamma Rays
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High School Multiverse with and without me
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Undergrad Confusion about Dirac notation
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Undergrad Probability Amplitudes and the History of Science
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Undergrad Estimate of ground state energy for the Yukawa potential
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Undergrad What is the effect of ionization at low densities?
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Undergrad States and Group: Eigenvectors Represent One Dimension
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Undergrad Are there quark "shells", just as electrons have shells?
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Graduate Evaluate this paper on the derivation of the Born rule
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Undergrad ?Measuring the Strong Force: Strength vs Distance
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High School Quantum Entanglement: Explaining the Logic Behind It
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Undergrad Role of determinate states in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Polarization vector sums in QED
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Graduate Question about equivalence of Path Integral and Schrodinger
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Graduate Asymptotic states in gauge theories
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High School Feynman Diagrams: Uncovering the Issue
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Undergrad Photons and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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High School Why would non-locality solve the time paradox in dcqe?
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Undergrad Why doesn't decoherence apply to unobserved experiments?
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High School Does QM Use n-Dimensional or Infinite Dimensional Integrals?
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Undergrad Obtain simultaneous eigenfunctions?
  • John Greger
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Undergrad Is the Smallest Eigenvalue Always the Ground State Energy?
  • Jeff Chen
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High School How to determine the wavefunction of photons?
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Undergrad Can Quantum Tunneling Occur Through a Material Barrier?
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Undergrad In QFT people exchange electrons during touching?
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Undergrad Measurement OF a Beamsplitter - Destroys Quantum Interference?
  • ObjectivelyRational
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High School Navigation by detecting anomalies in Earth's magnetic field
  • Buzz Bloom
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High School Does dimensions have the same meaning in the Quantum world?
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Undergrad Trying to understand my prof's derivation of Planck's Law
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Undergrad Solving Operator Problem with Matrix Representation
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High School Entropy, irreversability, and the arrow of time
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Graduate Help Understanding a Quantum Circuit Identity
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Undergrad Generalized Momentum is a linear functional of Velocity?
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Undergrad Wavelength approaching the Planck length
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High School Is the Universe Deterministic?
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Undergrad Question about Operators in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Photoelectric effect questions: photon absorption and electron ejection....
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Undergrad Why does a BEC manifest no atom bunching?
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Undergrad Can an electron be found outside the atom it belongs to?
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High School What tells us photons were ever in a superposition in EPR
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Undergrad Want some suggestions for research papers on quantum entanglement
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Undergrad Is Quantum Electrodynamics relevant to every electromagnetic field?
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Graduate Are quantum fields real objects in space?
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High School Time independent perturbation theory
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Undergrad Linear Algebra and Identity Operator Generalized to 3D
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Undergrad How does a nanogenerator work in quantum field theory?
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Undergrad Value of orbital angular momentum for two particles
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Undergrad About the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
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Undergrad Would this experiment prove or disprove quantum randomness?
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Undergrad Wick's theorem and Nucleon scattering
  • Ken Gallock
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Undergrad General Concepts About Fermi-Dirac Distribution
  • MartinCort
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Undergrad Does "Decoherence" really explain anything?
  • jon4444
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Undergrad Density Matrix Quantum Mechanics Help - Hi, I'm Confirming!
  • Jonathan freeman
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High School Is the Evidence for Quantum Entanglement in Bacteria Strong Enough?
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Graduate Power of a Quantum Cascade laser by theory
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Undergrad Ejection of Only one electron by a Photon in the Photoelectric effect
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Undergrad Self-interference in double-slit experiments
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Graduate Canonical Quantization: Steps to Find iħ
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Insights The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Popescu-Rohrlich Correlations - Comments
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Undergrad Unveiling the Origins of SPDF: Insights from Old Threads and Blog Posts
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Undergrad How to prove SO(1,3)=SU(2)+SU(2)
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High School Any quotes from verified physicists about superposition?
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High School What happens to the wave function if....
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High School Unraveling Quantum Weirdness to Understanding Entanglement Phenomena
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Undergrad Time is not an observable, but....
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Graduate Novel entangled photon source with heralding
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Undergrad What Happens When Photon Energy Differs in Stimulated Emission?
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Undergrad Computing inner products of spherical harmonics
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Undergrad Understanding Electron Behavior in Quantum Tunneling through Dielectrics
  • Samson4
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Undergrad Summing Divergent Series and Borel Summation
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Undergrad Probability current density
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Undergrad Represenation of a state vector in a different basis
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Undergrad What is the relationship between Maxwell's equations and quantum field theory?
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