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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Atomic Orbitals and Symmetry
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Undergrad Question about double slit experiment results
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Undergrad Help to understand the wave function for atom (gas)
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High School A question about Electron spin
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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle.... Intent Behind It?
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High School Dirac Equation vs. Schrodinger Equation
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High School Still confused about superposition and mixed states
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Graduate Is entanglement based on first principles?
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Undergrad No problem at all, happy to help! Have a great weekend as well.
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High School Quantum Mechanics: Origin of the Term & Why Mechanics?
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High School Is the Higgs Field Uniform Across Space-Time or Does It Vary?
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Undergrad How are different potentials implemented experimentally?
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Graduate Srednicki's QFT: Feynman Rules and Feynman Diagrams
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment: Magnification?
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Graduate Is this experiment real (double slit)?
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High School The Firewall Paradox: Is it Possible?
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Undergrad How can larger dips in absorption line give more element
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High School Quantum Entanglement. Is spin conserved?
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Undergrad Why is association rule in angular momentum sum not valid?
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Undergrad Interpret Heisenberg Picture: Operators & States
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Graduate Why the particle velocity in Dirac theory is equal to c?
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High School Meaning of the word 'instantaneous'
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Undergrad Feynman Lectures: negative alpha for solving Schrödinger equation
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Undergrad High Energy Photon Recieved as Lesser Energy Photons?
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Graduate Wavefunction matching two different H, not just V
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Undergrad Delayed choice, pseudo-retrocausality, massive particles
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Undergrad Particle number conservation and motivations for QFT
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Undergrad Zeeman effect sign of circular polarization
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Graduate What is the physical significance of the unitary matrix in this optical device?
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Undergrad Why are total orbital QN l,m zero for closed subshell?
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High School Is the wave function physical ?
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High School Accuracy in speed of photon - uncertainty?
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Undergrad Evalutaion of Schrodinger's equation
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Undergrad Comments on updated delayed choice erasure graphic
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High School Why is momentum the fourier transform of the wavefunction ?
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Undergrad Doubts on wavefunction conditions
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High School What is the origin of Observables?
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High School An application of the uncertainty principle
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Undergrad How can you visualize the Higgs field, or can you?
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Undergrad Spontaneous Absorption of Photons in Two State Quantum System
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Undergrad Finding probability of changing states
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Graduate How to understand the electric-field operator?
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High School Polytropic process with heat addition
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Undergrad Could you provide me a selection rule?
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Undergrad What is a time-dependent operator?
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High School Understanding Different Quantum Interactions
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Undergrad Confused about operator action
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Undergrad Defining a pulse of particular area
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Graduate Fock space and Poincaré invariance
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Undergrad Mind Bending Double-Slit Diffraction Thought Experiment
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High School Is Gravitational Quantization Supported by the Stability of Orbital Electrons?
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Undergrad Understanding Space-Time & Fields: A Flowchart Guide
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High School Neutrinos and Fermi-Dirac Distribution
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Undergrad What is the reason behind uncertainty principle?
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High School What is the reason for Schrodinger's cat experiment?
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Graduate Interpreting the K-G Annihilation Operator Expression
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Undergrad Can a Discontinuous Wave Function Be Acceptable in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Understanding ΔEΔt uncertainty
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Undergrad Understanding Internal State in Quantum Systems with Cold Atoms
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High School Understanding Correlations in Non-Realism: The Role of Extra Variables?
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High School Wave Function of a Proton in a Box with a Slide
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Graduate QFT and transitions between momentum states
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High School Is Wigner's Friend the Key to Understanding Wave Function Collapse?
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Graduate Uncertainties in Poisson processes
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Undergrad The Lagrangian of a Coherent State
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High School Should Fourier Transforms Be Taught Before the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
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High School How does Bell's inequality rule out realism?
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Undergrad Field eigenstates and path integral formulation
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Graduate Conjugate variable clarification
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Undergrad Time evolution after "turning off" square well
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Undergrad What is the angle in the action-angle uncertainty principle?
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High School Other terms for indeterministic hidden variables
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Undergrad Two photon absorption or multi-photon absorption?
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High School Why is probability defined in space rather than at a point in quantum mechanics?
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High School Is an Electron Both a Wave and a Particle Simultaneously?
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Undergrad Quantum Superposition While Observing Phenomena?
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High School Energy density of charged capacitor via QFT
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Undergrad Strong Force and Wave function collapse
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Undergrad What is the Eigenvalue of Coherent States?
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High School No problem, glad I could help!
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Undergrad Is There a Reliable Source Code for Quantum Key Distribution?
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Graduate Double Slit--closing a slit while particle is in flight
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High School Classical experiment violates Bell
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High School Schrodinger cat superperposition vs sharp state
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Graduate Green's function at boundaries
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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser scanning telescope
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Undergrad Big Freeze: Resolving the Universe's End?
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Undergrad Planck-Einstein: how does it separate classical from Quantum?
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Undergrad Infinite square well solution - periodic boundary conditions
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Undergrad A thought about parallel universe
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Undergrad What is the relation between Temperature and Quantum State?
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High School Does weak measurement cause mixed state?
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Undergrad Radioactive decay, falling pencils and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Quantum Computing: Difference vs Normal Computers
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Undergrad What happens to Quantum decoherence at Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad Regarding the eigenvalues of the translation operator
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Undergrad Calculation of vibronic couplings
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Undergrad Relationship of Light's Wavelengthvs and Probability Wave?
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Undergrad Impossible to exclude hidden variables without entanglement?
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Undergrad Is the uncertainty principle an ontological statement?
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