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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Undergrad Commutator of p and x/r: Elegant Derivation in Position Basis
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High School Expanding space time and Virtual particles
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Graduate Generalizing distinguishability of photons on HOM dip?
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High School Spontaneous increase in energy level
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Undergrad Meaning of Dirac Delta function in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Understanding the no-clone theorem
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Graduate Fermi and Bose gas in statistical mechanics
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Graduate Is the Nexus Graviton a Thing?
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Undergrad Hidden dimensions and quadratic term of a free field
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Graduate Reasonable measurement of both coordinate and momentum?
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Undergrad Energy of an electron with Schrodinger's equation
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Undergrad Operation on complex conjugate
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Graduate Osterwalder-Schrader theorem and non-relativistic QM
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Undergrad Concepts to understand Quantum Tunneling
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Undergrad Wave Function Collapse: Quantifying Quickness
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Graduate Can imaginary position operators explain real eigenvalues in quantum mechanics?
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High School Quantum Teleportation Question from a Curious 10 year old
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High School Why doesn't this FTL communication scheme work?
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Graduate Implications of violation of the Leggett–Garg inequality
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High School Quantum state of the Universe?
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Undergrad Squaring a Sum of Ket-Bra Operators
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Graduate Superluminal Signalling proposal in peer-reviewed journal
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High School Bose–Einstein condensate and Hadron Collider
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Undergrad Fermi gas at the absolute zero T
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Undergrad Concept underlying recent Serra-Lutz cold-to-hot experiment
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Undergrad Behavior that seems to violate the arrow of time, but....
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Undergrad Is the Compton scattering angle related to the incident energy?
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Graduate Hamiltonian in an electromagnetic field
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Undergrad Can angular momentum be applied to non circular rotations?
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Undergrad Schwinger effect verified by Unruh temperature?
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Undergrad Hamiltonian for an Optical Phase Shifter?
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Undergrad QCD Sign Problem: Adding Quarks, Does it Change Properties?
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Undergrad Spin Measurements: Up vs Down | Gf
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Undergrad The Relation Between Wavefunctions in Dirac Equation
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Graduate What are local and non-local operators in QM?
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Undergrad Dirac's Rest Mass in Minowski Spacetime
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Undergrad Dirac-Delta Function, Different Integration Variable
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Undergrad Little issue regarding physical states
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Undergrad Modified double-slit experiment - two photons
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High School Quantum Mechanics is not a theory?
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Graduate How does a pseudo-Hermitian model differ from a Hermitian?
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Field Variations - Comments
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High School Casimir effect, energy conservation
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Geometry - Comments
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Lagrangians - Comments
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Graduate Quantum physics phenomena that have spiral-phase portraits?
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Graduate Transformation of position operator under rotations
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Graduate Shor's algorithm - need to uncompute auxiliary qubits?
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High School Beam splitter, one photon, one detector?
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High School Quantum Tunneling: Reflection and Transmission Probabilities Explained
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Undergrad Canonical Quantization: Proving the Theory
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Undergrad 2-particle Wavefunction and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
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Undergrad Requirements for pair production
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High School Why Can't Two Fermions Occupy the Same Quantum State?
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Undergrad Can We Cool a Macroscopic Crystal to 1 nK?
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Undergrad Fubini-Study metric of pure states
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Undergrad Can Entangled Clocks Synchronize Time in Quantum Physics?
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Undergrad What does complex conjugate of a derivate mean?
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Undergrad Understanding Neutron Star Formation Through Feynman Diagrams
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Undergrad Quantum Entanglement: Particle Connection Effects
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Undergrad Distinguishing electrons through spin
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Undergrad How Can Fermi Pressure Be Explained in Relativistic Conditions?
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Undergrad Measurement Values for z-component of Angular Momentum
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Undergrad What mechanism enables interaction of the fields?
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Graduate Shor's algorithm and similar exploitation of QM?
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Undergrad How does a harmonic oscillator model have the same frequency
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Undergrad Understanding Continuous Variable QKD
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Graduate Why light beams attract or repel each other even when they don't have charge
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Undergrad Dirac equation solved in Weyl representation
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Undergrad Anihilation operator expression: is there a typo here?
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Undergrad Superposition States: Is TDSE & TISE Satisfied? Check Here
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Undergrad Can Photons travel faster than c?
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Undergrad Feynman Path Integral: Teaching and Questions
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Undergrad Fluorescence from core shell quantum dots
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Graduate Question about QFT Diagrams and their Integrals
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High School Understanding Particle Spins: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Can there be a subquantum level?
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Undergrad Alternate form of wave equation
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Undergrad Exploring Multi Particle States: Fermions vs. Bosons
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Undergrad LS-Coupling: intuition why 2p^2 has no singlet P?
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High School Possible Loophole in the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Spacetime - Comments
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Undergrad Multiplying a wavefunction by a constant number
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Undergrad Dirac Matrices and the Pythagorean Theorem
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Undergrad Generating a Hilbert space representation of a wavefunction
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Graduate Integral ##\int_{-1}^{1} [P_{l}^{m}]^2 ln [P_{l}^{m}]^2 dx##
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Undergrad Probability vs radial density-confusion
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Undergrad Wave Functions of Definite Momentum
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Undergrad Does the path Integral contain virtual particles?
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Undergrad Probability of Staying in x<0 for Superposition of 2 Gaussians
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Graduate Topological Quantum Field Theory: Help reading a paper
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Undergrad Where Does the Energy Go in a Quantum System with 3 Possible Measurements?
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Undergrad Can a wave-function be a combination of states with different energies?
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Undergrad Amplitude to go from one state to another
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Undergrad Will a uniform magnetic field be considered as measurment?
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High School Alain Aspect's experiment setting
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High School Is energy the same as matter in physics?
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Undergrad Berry phase, Bra-Ket and gradient
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Undergrad What is the Conservation of Information in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Measurement of a particle's position using photons
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