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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool?
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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Undergrad How to visualise an instanton?
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Undergrad What is the role of entropy in particle decay theory?
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Undergrad How does a single photon camera pixel work?
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Graduate Entanglement between nuclei via fission
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Graduate How Does the Dirac Spin Exchange Operator Work in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Does quantum mechanics obey causality?
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High School Quantum communication will allow view the future and past?
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Graduate Questions about the Dimensions Analysts changing the equation
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High School Shape of elementary particles in QFT, etc?
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Undergrad Wavelength of photons exchanged between charged particles
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Undergrad Why must force-carrying particles be virtual?
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Undergrad Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Is the Quantum State in a Dressed Atom System Pure?
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Undergrad Virtual photons [in electrostatic interactions]
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Undergrad A few questions about Griffiths book
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Undergrad What's the motivation for bracket notation in QM?
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Undergrad Physical eigenstates of systems of n particles of spins sᵢ?
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Undergrad Uncovering the Conceptual Catch in EPR Proposal for Non-Commutative Variables
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Undergrad Delayed Choice Black Hole Experiment
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Undergrad Question about Hawking radiation
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Undergrad Do Bob's measurement choices affect Alice's?
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Graduate Commutator of field operator with arbitrary functions
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Undergrad What is the correct explanation of the Casimir force?
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Undergrad About the time evolution of a wave packet
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Undergrad Spin 1/2 particle emitting spin 2 particle?
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Undergrad Linear equations and superposition of wavefunctions
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Undergrad Looking for straight explanation of entanglement
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Undergrad Understanding Thermalisation in Particle Systems
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Undergrad How Does Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics Relate to Dirac's Notation?
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Graduate I have some problems with units, can someone help me?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between entanglement and entropy in quantum systems?
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High School What exactly is quantum physics?
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High School Why exp(ikx-iwt) and not exp(ikx+iwt)?
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High School Is There Experimental Proof for the Existence of Fermion Fields?
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High School A question about quantum entanglement
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High School Understanding Chemical Bonds: How Does Quantum Mechanics Explain Them?
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High School How Do Quantum Dots and NV Centers Measure Single Electron Spin Changes?
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High School Why Can't We Choose an Electron's Spin?
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Undergrad What test for determing particle spin?
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High School Regarding Young's two slit experiment
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High School New retrocausality experiment ?
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Undergrad A question on Bose enhancement & Pauli blocking
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Undergrad T-symmetry and conservation of energy
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High School Energy released in electron transition
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Undergrad Question about commuting operators
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Undergrad Sinusoidal Potential in Schroedinger
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High School Why doesn't light destroy matter
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Undergrad Classical/QM justification of principle of least action
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Undergrad How do I find this state |j,m=j> to calculate another state?
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Graduate What is the Interpretation of Running Coupling in MS Scheme?
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Graduate Identical Fermions in identical linear combinations
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High School Conservation of energy in quantum physics
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Graduate What is a Mass Independent Renormalization Scheme?
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Undergrad Confusion about initial states and coherent states
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High School Examples of quantum randomness?
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Graduate Can Protons Interact with Double Slit Construction?
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Graduate A question about the mode expansion of a free scalar field
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High School Are Pointer States Primitives in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School Quanta: What is it & How Does It Relate to Energy?
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High School Electrons: Orbits, Collisions, & What Happens When They Collide
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Undergrad What Are Kets and Vectors in 3-D Representation?
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Undergrad Radioactive decay, macroscopic objects
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Graduate Canonical quantisation of the EM field
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Undergrad Fourier transform of Coulomb potential
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Undergrad Visualizations of a hydrogen atom in an external electric field
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Undergrad Simple calc. of energy levels in quantum harmonic oscillator
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Undergrad What happens to super-symmetry at the center of a black hole?
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High School Is it possible to create macroscopic Casimir effect?
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Undergrad How to change the Hamiltonian in a change of basis
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Undergrad Will quantum computers be able to factor larger numbers in the future?
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High School Can the Bohmian Wave Function Influence Thermodynamic Trajectories?
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Undergrad Is the Triplet State Entanglement the same as Singlet State Entanglement?
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