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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Continuity of the wave function
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Graduate Phase of coherent states and single photons
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Graduate Normalised Radial Coulomb Wave Function
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Graduate Quantum mechanics "not quantized"
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Graduate Confusion Related to Planck Mass
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Graduate How Does Adding a Second Pair of Slits Affect Interference Patterns?
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Graduate Proving Entanglement: Measuring Spin of Photons for Bell's Inequality
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Graduate Why does gravity not explain the Casimir Effect?
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Graduate Any Good Sources for Learning Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Bound by the Limits of Pure Chance?
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Graduate Understanding WKB Approximation for E-V(x)
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Graduate What exactly is a quantum state?
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Graduate Why is the equation for a particle's wave function given by ##\nu = E/h##?
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Graduate Complex numbers and physical meaning
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Graduate Allowable energies for a Particle in a box
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Graduate Light Waves on Macroscopic Scale: Distinguishing from Matter Waves?
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Graduate What's so unusual about entanglement?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle (stationary state)
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Graduate Mach zehnder : a test for superposition ?
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Graduate Are there Virtual Particles for Every Field?
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Graduate The Zeilinger experiment being FTL?
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Graduate Probability of pools freezing in summer
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Graduate How does the EM force transmit charge information?
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Graduate Rotational Energy and Degeneracy
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Graduate Multiple universes, measurement and laws of nature
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Graduate What is quantum computing research mostly focused on?
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Graduate Momentum eigenstates - particle in a box
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Graduate What is the exact connection between Poisson brackets and commutators
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Graduate What is the core problem of the information paradox?
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Graduate Can gravity be hypothetically used to collapse the wave function?
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Graduate Does relativistic QM obey rotational symmetry?
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Graduate Annihilation of shifted gaussian vs. nonshifted gaussian
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Graduate How can expectation of position^2 be > L
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Graduate Eigenfunction of multiple operators simultaneously?
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Undergrad Does voltage affect the current in the Franck-Hertz experiment?
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Graduate An operator acting on the translated ground state of an SHO
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Graduate What happens when Alice and Bob measure entangled spins in different directions?
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Graduate A general question about quantum physics
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Graduate Is quantum entanglement a form of time travel?
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Graduate Does Pair Production proving quantum nature?
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle And Collapse Wavefunction
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Graduate What is the significance of S-Matrix in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Understanding the Spin States of Vector Mesons
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Graduate Momentum and position eigenstates ; free and bound
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Graduate Complementing a Qubit in the Bloch-Sphere
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High School Large Casimir Cavity: Can Its Effect Be Enhanced?
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Graduate Free floating electron quantum spin axis locked to space?
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Graduate QFT, excitation of quantum field, physical or mathematical?
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Graduate Is an electron a delocalized excitation before measurement?
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Graduate How does the double slit experiment take us to superposition?
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Graduate CNOT Quantum Gate Schematics: Physical Implementation
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Graduate Total Angular Momentum J
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Graduate Derivation of Fermi-Dirac distribution
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Graduate Will detecting 1 of the 3 slits break the wave patterns?
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Graduate Why must E exceed Vmin(x) for normalizable solutions?
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Graduate Wave particle duality: accept a new entity?
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Graduate Wavefunction in rotating frame
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Graduate Things that do not depend on the choice of Cauchy surface
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High School Watching the double-slit experiment affects the results?
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Graduate Learning Quantum Mechanics with Dirac: Understanding Ket Vectors
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Graduate Projector augmented wave method
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Graduate Path integral propagator as Schr's eq Green's function
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Graduate Question about higher dimensions and what connects them
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Graduate Schwarzschild Diameter of One Quantum of Energy
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Graduate Why we never see a rational charge?
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Graduate Finding a unitary transformation between two quantum states.
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Undergrad Can a photon have any frequency or only certain specific?
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Graduate Idea concerning Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Interaction picture - time evolution operator
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Graduate Cheshire Cat Experiment in July Issue of Nature
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Graduate Instantaneous action in potential
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Graduate What is "Modern Quantum Simulation" experimentation?
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Undergrad Precession of angular momentum in vector model
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Graduate How can a particle be a combination of other particles?
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Graduate Four Classes of Quantum Mechanical Effects are Independent?
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High School Does Observation Create Reality in Quantum Physics?
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High School Why does the complex conjugate of psi pop out?
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Graduate The momentum representation of ##x## and ##[x,p]##
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Graduate Intuitive idea for chaotic light statistics?
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Graduate What is VigLink and How Does it Affect Links on Physicsforums?
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Graduate The physical derivation of annihilation operator?
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Insights Higher Prequantum Geometry I: The Need for Prequantum Geometry - Comments
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Graduate Matrix method to find coefficients of 1-d S.E.
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Graduate Spin Operators: Axial for QM, Polar in Clifford Algebra?
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Graduate What is a Label? QM & QFT Explained
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Graduate Understanding Electron Chirality and Scalar Conservation
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Graduate How Does the Angular Momentum Commutator Derive the Lorentz Algebra?
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Graduate Chance of building practical quantum computers
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Graduate Understanding Qubits: How Superposition Powers Quantum Computers
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Graduate Quantum Communication: Instant Transmission of Messages?
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Graduate Quantum Hilbert Hotel: Endless Possibilities
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Graduate How to; polarized reaction ee--->WW
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Graduate Delayed choice quantum eraser by Kim et al.
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Graduate How Do Complex Numbers Affect Ket Vectors in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Using completeness relation to find <Omega>=0
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Graduate Why does quantum entanglement not allow ftl communication
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser: Am I missing something here?
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Graduate Trouble understanding the wave function
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Graduate Can you determine if a string of particle pairs is composed of entangled pairs?
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Graduate How do I set up a delta potential well with an infinite potential wall?
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