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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Undergrad Energy associated with entangled particles
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Undergrad Is Energy Entanglement Possible?
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High School Question about Hamiltonian and kinetic energy
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Undergrad Probabilities in many body systems....
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Undergrad Why is the Pauli Exclusion Principle not a force?
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Undergrad Canonical Quantization: Choosing the Right Lagrangien
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High School Bose Condensate: The Repulsive Nature and Inability to Penetrate Ceramic
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Undergrad One Way vs. Entangled Cryptography
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Undergrad Commutator Properties: [A,B]C+B[A,C]=[A,B](C+B)?
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Undergrad Peres-Horodecki criterion for a 3-qubit system
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Undergrad Proving The Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle
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Graduate A question about the electron self-energy correction
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High School Build a "full" wave function without data in simple problems
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Insights Interview with a Physicist: David J. Griffiths - Comments
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High School Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Equivalent to One Bit of Information?
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Undergrad Does the electron field carry information about its charge
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Undergrad Physical significance of nodes?
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Undergrad Will the kinetic energy operator change with a variable shift?
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Graduate How to calculate the Wigner function for an entangled state
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Undergrad How are quantum bits implememted?
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Undergrad Why do we need perturbation theory
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Undergrad Qubits: Can We Store Information Again After Read?
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Undergrad Double slit experiment with electrons
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Graduate Are all wave functions with a continuum basis non-normalizable?
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High School Simple proof of Bell's theorem
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Undergrad A question about the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment
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Undergrad How Does Environmental Interaction Affect Quantum Decoherence and Localization?
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Graduate Overlap of Ground States in Quantum Field Theory
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High School Electron diffraction experiment puzzle
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High School Photoelectric effect and metal's delocalised electrons
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Graduate The Mystery of Photoresist Ridges: A Question About Light and its Behavior
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Undergrad Numerical solution of Schrödinger equation
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Undergrad Does the double-slit experiment create path-entangled states
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Graduate What is the most general mathematical framework for quantum
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Undergrad A question about momentum integrals and lengths
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Undergrad Understanding Coherence in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad What does it mean -- polarization of a single photon?
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High School What is the Mass of Photons According to QFT?
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High School So Schrodinger's cat is a gambler
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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking - potential minima
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Undergrad Obtaining Spherical Harmonics to Normalized Angular Wave Functions
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Undergrad Do photons of all energies exist?
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory - Why quantise fields?
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High School Gauge Boson Exchange: Do Particles Influence Each Other?
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Undergrad Determining Electron Dipole: Experiments & Results
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Undergrad Molecular Hamiltonian - Ammonia
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics is not a description of reality?
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Undergrad What destroys interference: Possibility or actual measurment?
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Undergrad What is the mechanism behind Hawking radiation?
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Graduate What is the true definition of the covariant gamma matrix ##\gamma_{5}##?
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Undergrad Laser Beam through Calcite crystal = Photon Entanglement?
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Graduate Identification of particle and antiparticle in lagrangian
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Graduate Value of Mexican hat potential
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Graduate Why Can We Drop Constant Terms in Quantum Field Theory Lagrangians?
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Undergrad Understanding Spin Basis & Representation in Modern Physics | Explained
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Undergrad Unruh effect, temperature and particle density....
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Graduate What are the failed experiments to determine electron's position?
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Undergrad Can Bell's theorem contradict PBR ?
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High School Why is the uncertainty in position equal to the wavelength?
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Undergrad Difference between measurement and passing through a gate
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Undergrad Classical vs. Quantum Defintion of Energy in Field Theory
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Undergrad Question about the deBroglie hypothesis
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High School Local teleportation using classical entanglement
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High School A non-physicist's question on the double-slit experiment
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Graduate Quantum obstacle course changes material from superconductor to insulator
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Undergrad Harmonic oscillator ladder operators
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Undergrad Why is measure not an accurate term for determining the location of a particle?
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High School Teleportation of large objects?
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Undergrad Higgs Boson, Electrons and Spin
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Graduate QFT as pilot-wave theory - one more time....
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Undergrad What Events Create Spooky Electrons in Quantum Mechanics?
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Insights Interview with a Physicist: David Hestenes - Comments
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Graduate What is the purpose of applying a Dirichlet boundary condition?
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High School What happens if the observer dies?
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Undergrad How many orbits are in the hydrogen atom?
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Undergrad The Berry Connection and Gauge Invariance in Quantum Systems
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High School Can you change a quantum particle's spin?
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High School Possible for a particle to diffract around a barrier
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Undergrad Is the Concept of a Continuous Real Line Contradicted by Quantum Physics?
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Undergrad Commutator of Parity operator and angular momentum
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High School Is the Universe grainy below the Planck Scale?
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Undergrad Integrating imaginary units and operators
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Undergrad SQM vs Pilot Waves - Potential issue with Pilot Waves?
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Undergrad Why does the existence of the Higgs Field require a Higgs Particle?
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Undergrad QFT Feynman Propagator Algebra
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Undergrad Exchange of photons inside atoms
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Graduate Determining molecular resonance frequencies
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Undergrad Virtual Particles and Charge Screening
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High School Does an electron turn into a positron when hit by a photon?
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High School Meter Defined by Speed of Light: Uncertainty of Measurement
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Undergrad Is quantum weirdness really weird?
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Undergrad Determining if an operator is degenerate
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High School De Broglie Wavelength & Classical EM Wavelength Comparison
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Graduate Are All Electrons Created Equal? The Implications of Quantum Field Theory
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Undergrad Meaning of "c number equations"?
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High School Doubt regarding Rutherford's Alpha Scattering Experiment and Impact Parameter
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Undergrad Murray Gell-Mann on Entanglement
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Undergrad Is the QFT field real or just a mathematical tool?
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High School Why does this term always approach 4?
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