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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Collapse of wave function and consciousness
Undergrad Wave-particle duality: nature of wave-particle as it travels
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Graduate Is CPT Symmetry Inherent in All Quantum Field Theories?
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High School How to compare camera film ISO number to quantum efficiency?
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High School Is quantification random or pseudo-random?
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Graduate WKB Approximation: Suggestions for Starting Points
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Undergrad EM Wave Components for a Photon?
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Undergrad Do All Physical States Satisfy the Hamiltonian Equation Hψ = Eψ?
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Graduate Is Quantum Stealth Camouflage Real or Just Another Misreported Discovery?
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High School Does retrocausality only apply to subatomic particles?
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High School Quantum to Classical Particles: Understanding the Entropy Limit
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Undergrad Integral computation in scattering theory
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Undergrad Condition for quantum entanglement?
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High School Does Electromagnetic wave qualifies to become a particle?
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Undergrad Describing Energy for Time-Dependent States
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Undergrad Keeping a subspace decoherence free, with the Zeno Effect
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Undergrad Does Anti-Information Exist in Quantum Theory?
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High School Electron arrangement and ionisation energy
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Undergrad Legitimacy of Particle-Wave Duality
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Graduate What do people mean by "dynamical phase transition"?
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Undergrad Coupling Spin-0 and spin-1 fields
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High School A question of timing in a light bulb
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Undergrad Are electrons in a shared shell quantumly entangled?
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Undergrad How Does Decoherence Affect Our Perception of Quantum Superpositions?
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Undergrad What happens to the eigenvalue if an operator acts on a bra?
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Undergrad Molecular Spin Number: Uncovering the Secrets of Nuclear Spin in Molecules
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High School What counts as observer effect?
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Undergrad Solving Fermi-Dirac Integral: Step-by-Step Guide
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Undergrad What is the spin quantum number of an atom in 4P state?
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Undergrad Macroscopic wavefunction evolution
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Graduate Hawking multiverse implications for "all" histories
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Undergrad Quantum Key Distribution - interception confusion
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Undergrad Measuring entangled state of degenerate eigenstates
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Undergrad Energy of a number of particles
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Undergrad How do Z-Dir and N-Dir Spins Affect Entangled State Measurements?
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Undergrad Degeneracy in quantum statistics
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High School What groundbreaking insights can quantum physics research on the ISS reveal?
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Undergrad Singlet and triplet spin states - the normalisation constant
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Undergrad What is the meaning of phase in relation to laser states?
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Undergrad Non-Newtonian fluids at the quantum level
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Graduate Best first book on quantum mechanics
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Undergrad Can an electron in an s-orbital exist at the nucleus (r=0)?
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High School Begining of time, cause and effect and quantum randomness
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High School Femions to Bosons: The Future of Electronics
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High School Explain Photoelectric Effect: Potential, Formula & Voltage
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Undergrad Examples of Basic Potential functions
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Undergrad How Does Quantum Mechanics Relate to Quantum Field Theory in Particle Physics?
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Undergrad Simulation Hypothesis and Skynet
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High School Number of entangled particles in nature
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Undergrad Schrodinger equation and stationary states
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Graduate Canonical quantization of scalar fields
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High School Can entanglement be broken easily
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Undergrad Derivation of the photon energy
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High School What is Quantum Statistical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Why are the gamma-matrices invariant?
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High School So the holographic principle doesn't have much evidence?
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Undergrad Why is there only odd eigenfunctions for a 1/2 harmonic oscillator
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High School Interference patterns of electrons vs. photons
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High School Electrons and ions -- how long can they exist apart?
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Undergrad Quantum Coherence: Macroscopic Superpositions Explained
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High School Does quantum mechanics explain why subatomic particles behave the way they do?
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High School Why do the 4 forces have the strength that they do?
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Undergrad Understanding Spin-2 Bosons & Graviton Theory of Gravity
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Undergrad Why electron enters the lowest potential possible?
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Undergrad Mapping between rotations and operations: sign & handedness
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Graduate Can the Markov chain be used in qubit manipulation?
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Undergrad Energy quantization of the particle in a box
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Graduate Optical Bistability and the Jaynes-Cummings Model
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Undergrad A special relativity explanation for the Lorentz Force?
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Graduate Liouville Master Equation for an Open Quantum System
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Undergrad Probability density and kinetic
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Undergrad Does the probability collapse theory of QM imply backward in time
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Undergrad Confused about slater determinant for excited states
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High School How Do Virtual Photons Mediate Forces in Quantum Electrodynamics?
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Undergrad Spin up and Spin down states can be written as .... why?
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Undergrad Can interactions happen at less than the Planck Time?
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Undergrad Normalizing Constant 3D Infinite Well
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Undergrad Virtual particles in Feynman diagrams and not
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Undergrad Expression for Uncertainty of Arbitrary Operator
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Undergrad Why is there a -1/2 in the Lagrangian density for ω mesons?
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High School Do probabilities for entangled polarization states add up to one?
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Undergrad Postulates for the formal core of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Fermi energy Ef changes with applied electric field?
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Graduate What is a "quantum potential" ?
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Undergrad Wave-particle duality and localization
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High School Faster than light communication via entanglement?
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Undergrad Difference between expectation value and eigenvalue
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Undergrad Understanding Electron Spin: Deep Theoretical Reasons Explained
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High School The sticky elactic in the Bloch sphere
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Undergrad What Is the Descriptive Meaning of \(- \frac{e}{c}\vec A\)?
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Undergrad Spin states for two identical 1/2 particles - Confused :s
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Graduate Quantum Optics Question and Wigner Functions
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Graduate Is Phase Relevant for Uncharged Particles?
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Undergrad Help With Black Board EQ's in a P.A.M. Dirac Lecture
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Particle Spin Numbering System
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Undergrad How to prove Schrodinger's equation in momentum space?
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High School Do Photons Contribute to the Energy Released in Nuclear Explosions?
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Graduate Euclidean signature and compact gauge group
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Undergrad General Solution of Dirac Delta Potential Well
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High School Does Photon Emission Cause Decoherence?
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Undergrad Why is reflection coefficient defined this way
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