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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Determining molecular resonance frequencies
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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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Undergrad Eigenstate of two observable operators
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Undergrad Berry phase without a magnetic field
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Undergrad Cosmic Bell Test: 600 yr Old "Freedom of Choice" Loophole
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High School Einstein's Photoelectric Equation and its graph
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High School Double Slit detectors question
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Undergrad Can the expectation of an operator be imaginary?
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Undergrad SO(3) rotation of eigenvectors
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Graduate Feynman diagrams for ##e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow \mu^{+}\mu^{-}##
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Undergrad Study for Feynman Diagrams: Beyond Shankar, etc?
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Undergrad Unraveling the Quantum Eraser Mystery
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Undergrad Entanglement in QM - Understanding Instant Correlation & Randomness
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Graduate Spinor Lorentz Transform via Vectors - Cross Product Issue
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Graduate Why General Relativity is non-renormalizable quantum theory?
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High School Operators 'act on' the wavefunction
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High School What Is Surprising About Wave Function Collapse?
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High School Photon-Wave Duality: Why can't they be separated?
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Undergrad Confused about emission/absorbtion of photons
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Graduate NASA confirms(?) EmDrive - can pilot wave carry momentum?
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Undergrad Measuring Spin in the Stern Gerlach Experiment
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Undergrad Hermitian Operators in QM
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Graduate Why can the ##1##-point correlation function be made to vanish?
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Undergrad Correlation functions and correlation length
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High School How does Partcle Symmetry affect the way a Particle Behaves?
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Graduate Hermitian properties of the gamma matrices
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Graduate EPFL's claim about wave particle duality
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Undergrad Explanation for the Quantum Measurement Problem?
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High School Re-Preparing vs Perturbing Quantum States: Understanding the Difference
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Undergrad Can particles exist without duality?
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High School Double slit question, rotating polarizers...
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Undergrad Why Is the Probability of Finding a Particle in a Position Eigenstate Zero?
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Graduate Does an infinitesimal generator of acceleration exist?
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Graduate What is the Lorentz Transformation for Spinor Indices of the Weyl Operator?
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Graduate Lorentz transformation of field with components
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Graduate What is faster, Gravity or "Spooky Action" at a distance?
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Undergrad Gauge invariance of momentum of charged particle
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Graduate Adiabatic process - quantum mechanics and thermodynamics
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Undergrad Phase factors of eigenstates in time-dependent Hamiltonians
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Undergrad Harper-Hofstader Model: Butterfly & Landau Levels Relationship
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High School Can a point-like particle really exist in a 0-dimensional universe?
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Undergrad Question for large quantum system
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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser -- Again....
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Undergrad Time dependent perturbation(determination of order)
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High School About creating a product state
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High School Can Everett Branches Break Quantum Laws?
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High School Spectroscopy before tunable lasers?
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Undergrad How see through the glass + reflection at same time
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High School Is the Speed of Light 1 Planck Length per 1 Planck Time in Vacuum?
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High School Uncertainty Principle and a photon
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Undergrad Delayed choice experiment clarification (specific setup)
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Undergrad Hermitian Operators in Dirac Equation
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Graduate What is De Broglie's Fictitious Wave?
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Undergrad What is the reason behind fermions being unable to share the same quantum state?
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High School Why Does Matter Become Solid When Observed? Max Planck's Theory
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Undergrad Quantum numbers of Landau levels
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High School The Possibility of Induced Quantum Mechanical Tunneling?
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Graduate Correlation functions in an interacting theory
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High School How to create quantum entangled electrons
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High School Are photons really necessary in physics?
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Graduate Wave of an outgoing anti-particle in quantum field theory?
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Undergrad Bohr model, Why do we assume a standing wave?
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Undergrad Do electrons really behave like waves?
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High School Why did Bohr & Company hold quantum reality to be indeterminate?
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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle: Energy of Unstable Particle?
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Undergrad Photoelectric Effect: quantum energy doubts
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Graduate Minimum uncertainty in electron position
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Undergrad Explaining Music Notes Consonance with Wave Functions
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Undergrad Hamiltonian matrix - Eigenvectors
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Graduate H-theorem in quantum information theory
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Undergrad Could somebody tell me good book about degenerate matter ?
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Undergrad Hartree Fock v.s. Configuration Interaction
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High School Does the Initial Emission in the Double Slit Experiment Have a Trajectory?
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Graduate Conjugate variables in the Fourier and Legendre transforms
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Undergrad Macroscopic versus microscopic standing waves
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Undergrad Integration Method Used to Transform Equation 1 into Equation 2?
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High School How long can a virtual particles exist in a vacuum state?
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Undergrad Entangled particle on a nanoprobe.
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Undergrad Vacuum fluctuations - possible stupid question
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High School How does a Bell State lead to a probability in the CHSH game
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Undergrad Why are E and gamma considered canonically conjugate in the Gauss law?
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Insights What is the explanation for the existence of anyons in 2 dimensions?
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Graduate Transverse polarizations of a massless spin 1 particle
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High School Understanding the difference between |01>+|10> and |01>-|01>
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Graduate Factors in the theory of a complex scalar field
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Undergrad Decoherence and standard formalism
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Undergrad Ionization and Nodes in the Hydrogen Wave Function
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Insights Struggles with the Continuum - Conclusion - Comments
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Undergrad Unpolarised Light: Single Photons & Superposition
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