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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Why quantum mechanics looks so different from classical one?
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Graduate How to Calculate Probability using Density Operator?
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Undergrad Anderson Localization and general disorder of matter?
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High School Can position eigenstates be considered qubits in quantum computing?
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Undergrad Simon's Algorithm: Solving the Mystery of f(x+s)
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Undergrad How can you detect which path an electron will take in a double-slit experiment?
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Graduate Utility of path integral formulation of quantum mechanics
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Insights Why Is Quantum Mechanics So Difficult? - Comments
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Undergrad Probability of one-photon loss from a cavity
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Undergrad Why is the Kinetic Energy Operator Differentiated Twice Instead of Squared?
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High School Question about photocell experiment
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High School Does QM allow for entropy decrease of a closed system?
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Undergrad Why Is the Limit ##\hbar \rightarrow 0## Called the Semiclassical Limit?
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Graduate Where does statistical physics/mechanics fit in with QFT,GR?
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Undergrad Beam in specific photon number state?
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High School Understanding Pure States in Quantum Mechanics: From Atoms to Electrons
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Undergrad Localization of particles and disorder at the quantum level?
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Undergrad Wave particle duality and phonons
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Graduate Projection trick to obtain time-ordered correlator
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Graduate Partition function in quantum field theory
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Graduate Path integral computes time-ordered products
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Undergrad Why can't we use negative values of n in the 1D particle in a box system?
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Graduate 3D oscillator trapped away from centre
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Undergrad Green's Function: Hamiltonian and Density of States Explained
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Undergrad How does Bell make this step in his proof?
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High School Collision of identical fermions
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Graduate What is the meaning of this equation?
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High School How Does DeBroglie Wavelength Influence Our Understanding of Dark Matter?
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Undergrad The typical and the exceptional in physics
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Graduate If light is quantized, why are EM spectrum and Blackbody spectrum continuous?
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Undergrad Is Light a Particle or a Wave: What’s the Real Answer in Modern Physics?
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Undergrad QFT for the Gifted Amateur Question (2)
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Undergrad Does the wavefunction evolve only to the future?
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High School Is wave particle duality really wrong?
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Undergrad Are there other types of operators that can produce real eigenvalues?
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High School Uncertain position and momentum -- A property of particles?
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Undergrad Origin of geometric similarities between multipoles & AO's
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High School How does Quantum Teleportation Work?
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High School Is Consciousness Influencing Branch Selection in Quantum Decoherence?
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur: Fourier Transforms & Excitations
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Undergrad Spin Eigenvectors: | + > vs | - >?
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Graduate Mathematical Format of Lagrangian vs Symmetries
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High School How do I calculate electron acceleration by gravitational waves
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Undergrad Equation Name & Description: What Is It?
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Graduate Can we derive quantification of energy mathematically?
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High School Virtual Particles; Making the Universe an Open System?
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Undergrad Plane wave solution to Dirac equation
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Undergrad Schroedinger Equation from Variational Principle
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Undergrad Scientific American Entanglement Movie
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High School Why do quantum effects arise due to microscopic size?
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Graduate Experimental values for screening constants? (Slater rules)
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High School Help with relationships in equations ΔX/L = λ/d?
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Undergrad Are we in a simulation and quantum tunneling?
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Undergrad Can we find a quantum analogue of the Bertrand paradox?
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High School Why the square of the wave function equals probability?
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Undergrad Degenerate Perturbation Theory
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High School How and why do quantum fields interact with each other?
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Undergrad Eigenstates of two Coupled Harmonic Oscillator
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High School Projection Operator: What Math Operation Does it Represent?
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Undergrad Is dψ/dx zero when x is infinite in QM?
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Undergrad Schrödinger's Equation Infinite Potential Well
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High School How is the Hydrogen Atom's Wave Function Separable?
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High School All the Universe belong to Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad QFT for the Gifted Amateur Question?
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Undergrad Planck's constant and quantization of energy
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Graduate Does spacetime lose its determinism in third dimension?
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Undergrad A two-fold quantum delayed-choice experiment
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Undergrad Classical Mechanics v Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad What causes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
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Undergrad Clarification virtual photons, real photons
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Undergrad Hidden Variables in Bell Experiments: State or Detector Dependent?
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High School About the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment
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High School Double Slit Simulator: Online Visualization & Path Variations
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High School Understanding Spin: A Basic Explanation for Beginners in Physics
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Undergrad Debunk these news stories (QM Radar)
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Graduate Confusion about Derivation of Vacuum Rabi Rate
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High School Random transfer in entanglement
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High School The Universe: A Planck Clock Exploration
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Undergrad CFD - Counterfactual Definiteness
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Undergrad What Is The Nature Of Absorption Randomity?
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High School Quantum superposition of Coulomb potential
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Undergrad Harmonic Oscillator in 3D, different values on x, y and z
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High School Can Gravitons Interact with Magnetic Fields and Explain Light Bending?
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High School The electron field as values of what quantity?
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Undergrad Strong force and superposition
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Undergrad Eigenvalues, eigenvectors and the expansion theorem
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High School Uncertainty Principle - uncertainty in mass.
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High School Photon Dimensions: Wave or Particle?
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Undergrad When is a given state an eigenstate of a given operator?
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Undergrad QM has never made a prediction contradicted by experiment
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High School Chinese quantum experiment - explain please
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Undergrad Moment and the Larmor precession
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Undergrad Finite difference Hamiltonian
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics getting position operator from momentum
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Graduate Complex scalar field - commutation relations
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Graduate Relevant interactions in quantum field theory
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Undergrad Simple physical example for addition of angular momentum?
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High School Position of a particle immediately after a measurement
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Undergrad Photon Interval vs Areal Density for Changing Intensity
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Graduate Stark effect - theory vs experiment?
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