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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool?
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?
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Undergrad Is the Smallest Eigenvalue Always the Ground State Energy?
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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?
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High School Navigation by detecting anomalies in Earth's magnetic field
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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
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Undergrad General Concepts About Fermi-Dirac Distribution
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Undergrad Does "Decoherence" really explain anything?
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Undergrad Density Matrix Quantum Mechanics Help - Hi, I'm Confirming!
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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
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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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High School Does the EPR experiment imply QM is incomplete?
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Undergrad Problem with section in Schwartz's QFT text
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High School Computer-simulated quantum physics?
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Undergrad Is the ground state energy of a quantum field actually zero?
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Undergrad Particle creation, energy density and the Compton wavelength
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High School Superposition - is the theory valid?
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High School How to think of molecular orbitals quantum mechanically
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Graduate Information and successive measurments
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Undergrad Why is separation constant l(l+1) instead of +-l^2?
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High School How Can a Hydrogen Atom Emit Multiple Colors Simultaneously?
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Undergrad Arguments against instantaneous collapse
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Undergrad Gauge transformation preserves what?
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Graduate Quantum synchronization description used in a paper
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Undergrad Is Simultaneity still alive in QM?
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Undergrad Is Chronology Protection Still Relevant in Modern Physics?
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Undergrad Lorentz invariance and equation of motion for a scalar field
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High School Understanding The Conscious Observer: Young's Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Young's double slit experiment with excited atoms
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Undergrad Decoherence: is "other states lost to the environment" part?
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Undergrad Black Hole Singularity: Discussing Quantum Theories
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High School Pilot-wave is No More, Pilot-wave cracked by Bohr
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Undergrad Is this derivation of the Born rule circular in any way?
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Graduate Study Chern-Simons Invariant: Understanding 3-Manifold Measurement
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Undergrad Causality and quantum physics
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High School Is entanglement severed after the first interaction?
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High School Quantum oscillator algebra help
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Undergrad Casimir effect and vacuum energy and a bit of relativity....
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Undergrad Validity of a paper on the standard conclusions from Bell, etc
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