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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Undergrad Solve Schrodinger Equation for Electrons in Atom: Potential Used?
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Undergrad Should the position basis be quantized?
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Undergrad What lead N.Bohr to come up with his postulates?
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Undergrad What Is the Origin of the Singlet State in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What physics would look like if QM had not been invented?
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Undergrad About magnetic momentum in quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Hermitian operators in quantum mechanics
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Graduate States in relativistic quantum field theory
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Undergrad Does the +/- 1 term in bosonic and fermionic statistics matter
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Insights Struggles with the Continuum - Part 5 - Comments
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Undergrad Why the energy inversely propotional to n^2 in Bohr model
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Undergrad About classical and quantum-mechanical statistics
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Undergrad Impact Parameter: Dependence on Scatter & Wave
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Graduate Given decoherence, do we still need random quantum jumps and
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Undergrad What's so strange about entangled particles?
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Undergrad Why Not Mess with the Potential?
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Undergrad Ontology of wavefunction vs. ontology of electric field
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High School Classical EM Wave: Can Model be Proved Wrong?
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Undergrad History of the modeling of light
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Undergrad Where Does Larmor Precession Occur?
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Graduate What is the role of averaging holonomies in gauge invariance within GR?
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Undergrad Limiting behavior of quantum elastic collision
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Undergrad Is the state observer dependent
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Undergrad State space of a standing wave?
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Undergrad How to turn model of Schrödinger's Equation 2D?
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Undergrad Loop Quantum Gravity and Virtual Particles....
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Undergrad Why is the s state spherically symmetric?
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Undergrad Wien's displacement law from Plank's formula
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Undergrad About precessing directon of angular motion in quantum mechanics
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High School Bell made Simple - Hardy result
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High School One single solution for paradoxes
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High School Where does a quantum experiment *begin*?
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Undergrad Understanding the Uncertainty Principle
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Undergrad Exploring the 1/2 Factor in Simple Harmonic Oscillator Solutions
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High School QM: Self-Studying vs. University Classes
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High School Do photons have mass and how does it affect their existence?
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Undergrad 'Real particle and virtual particle interactions' Part 2....
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High School Single Classical-Quantum Physics of Everything?
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High School Can you find a single entangled atom in a haystack.
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics is random in nature?
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Undergrad Understanding the wavefunction for a free particle
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Undergrad Understanding Complex Coefficients in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Where does Von Neumann say that consciousness causes collapse
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Undergrad Does the Double Slit Experiment Change When We Observe Particle Paths?
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Graduate Is representation theory worthwhile for quantum?
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High School Can a Magnetic Field Affect the Path of a Photon?
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Undergrad Does macro-object get entangled?
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Undergrad About quantisation of energy
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Undergrad Maximally entangled two-qubit Bell states
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Undergrad Selection rules for multiphoton vs single-photon ionization
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Graduate What Are Advanced Dissertation Topics in Quantum Computing?
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Undergrad How to discretize the Schrödinger equation with spin
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Undergrad Practicality of quantum communications systems
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High School Connections with Prime numbers and Quantum Physics?
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Graduate What is the range of size for quantum effect to happen?
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Graduate Observations Helmholtz equation is unable to explain
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High School Difference between opposite states
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Graduate Did Bohr have a Logical Picture of Wittgenstein?
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Undergrad Why psi squared instead of psi?
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High School A question about Schrödinger's equation.
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High School How is the Wave Function Derived in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Why do we require conditions for the Poisson Distribution?
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Undergrad Equivalence of SU(2) and O(3) in Ryder's QFT book
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High School Explaining to middle and high schoolers the alternatives to retrocausality
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Undergrad Why is light polarised for the Zeeman effect?
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Undergrad States diagonal in the reference basis
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Undergrad Understanding the Franck-Hertz Experiment: Causes of Current Drop
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Undergrad Building a List of Feynman Diagrams
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Undergrad Discovery shakes up QM (or not....)
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High School Position Operator: Mathematically Defined
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High School Quantum view of time versus relativistic view of time
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Undergrad Wavelength of a Stationary Particle
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Undergrad Quantum superposition from interference?
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Undergrad Quantum nonlocality in relation to FTL Communication
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Graduate How Does SPDC Happen? A Guide for Beginners
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Undergrad Comparing Reduced Planck Masses
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Undergrad How to diagonalize Hamiltonian with Zeeman field
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Undergrad Can you explain me the given planks hypothesis better?
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High School Possible Controversial Quantum Topics
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Undergrad Energy associated with matter waves of macroscopic objects
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Undergrad Why do Hydrogen bound states span the Hilbert space?
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High School What does it take to understand quantum mechanics?
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Undergrad What oscillates in matter waves?
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Undergrad Imposition of relativistic constraints on Bell's theorem
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Undergrad Can you extract useful work from vacuum energy?
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High School Life of free electrons in space
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High School Help Understanding the Uncertainty Principle
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Undergrad Can the Pauli Exclusion Principle be explained through quantum states?
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Undergrad What is Quantum Decoherence and How Does it Affect Quantum Systems?
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Graduate Does this experiment truly rule out non-local causality?
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High School Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and photons
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Graduate How are energy levels and De-Broglie wavelengths related in the Bohr model?
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Graduate Geometric Quantum mechanics -- Worked examples?
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Undergrad Electron configuration vs. Lewis dot structure?
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Undergrad Can the 1D Wave Equation Accurately Describe dΨ(x)/dt?
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High School From where electron and proton get there charges?
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Undergrad Reduced mass effect on gyromagnetic factor
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Undergrad Klein-Gordon Equation: Forming a Conservation of Charge
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Graduate Some questions about the Finite Potential Well
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High School Are there bosons for the quantum potential field?
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