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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
High School Weak measurement in double slit experiment gives which path
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Graduate Questions about the Casimir energy equation
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Graduate Can stimulated emissions from CO2 be absorbed?
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Graduate Why is probability amplitude squared?
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Graduate Quantum Disturbances: What to Know
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Undergrad How does stimulated emission occur in lasers?
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Graduate Stimulated Emission = Stimulated Absorption
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Graduate Numerical solution of Schrodinger equation script
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Graduate Finding the Total Angular Momentum
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Graduate Clarification of susskind lectures
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Graduate Where to find experimental correlation curves?
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High School Magnetic Wormholes: Reality or Fiction?
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Graduate Momentum Operator Derivation Questions
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Graduate Rotations in Bloch Sphere, and Free Parameters of a Qubit
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Graduate Only 4 possible single-qbit states?
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Graduate Photons acceleration in refraction
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Graduate What's the difference between a point and singularity?
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Graduate Operations in operational probabilistic theories
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Graduate What Happens When a Collapsed and Non-Collapsed Wave Function Combine?
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High School A question about parallel universes I want to share
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Graduate Solve Schrödinger's Wave Function Equation: Explained
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Graduate Can a material become transparent with enough light?
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Graduate Lagrangian of fields from Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Do All Objects Have Intrinsic Spin?
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Graduate Atom Localisation: Get Started with Study Material
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Graduate Fixed amplitude of electric field operator in quantum optics
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Graduate Additional Phase factors in SU(2)
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Graduate Gaussian wave packet in position space
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Graduate What are the units for ΔxΔp in the uncertainty principle?
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Graduate Comments - Measuring Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Understanding the Conservation of Probability and Operators in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate The operator X for the position in QFT
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Graduate How to Calculate Casimir Force with Dielectric Vacuum Between Metal Plates?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Measuring Particles & Retaining Entanglement
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Graduate 2D Projective Complex Space, Spin
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Graduate What is the smallest portion of energy?
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Graduate Is Frequency Quantized in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Does a Buckyball spin like an electron or like a baseball?
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Graduate Is Probability conserved in RQM?
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Graduate Normalization of free scalar field states
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Graduate Effect of acceleration on entanglement
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Undergrad Why do we use i to represent phasors and/or vectors?
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Graduate Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality
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Graduate Momentum eigenfunctions proof and Fourier Transform question
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Graduate Delayed choice as a quantum logic circuit
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Graduate Knowing which-path information by calculating distance time?
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Graduate No-cloning and stimulated emission
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Graduate In Bell are pairs independent?
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Graduate Sources to learn about Berry phases and Adiabatic Theorem
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Graduate Collisional excitation: selection rules for rotations?
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Graduate Quantum Property: Can a Particle Have It Both Ways?
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High School Can a particle exist without time
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Graduate Schrodinger equation numerical solution
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Graduate Divergence of integral over vacuum energies (Free field)
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Graduate Why does the intensity of Bremsstrahlung radiation increase with lower energy?
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Graduate Representations of Poincare group
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Graduate Conservative physical quantities
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Graduate Separability of Hilbert Spaces
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Graduate Fields as operator valued distributions
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Graduate Does empty space have a mass effect?
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Graduate What is the role of spherical harmonics in quantum mechanics?
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High School Speed of interaction between entangled particles
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Graduate Does time exist at Quantum level?
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Graduate Is Decoherence essentially a measurement? Then what?
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Graduate Does exchange of identical particles lead to new state?
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Graduate Why is QFT insensitive to absolute energies?
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Undergrad Double slit particle distribution with convex lens?
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Graduate Vacuum fluctions and the Casimir Effect
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Graduate State Vectors as elements of Hilbert Space
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Undergrad Entanglement Swapping and measurement vs. observation
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Graduate Could we calculate the number of Planck flops in a human lifetime?
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Graduate Interacting Quantum Field Theory: Ground State
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Graduate Total spin of triplet and singlet states
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Graduate Does Black Hole Quantum Complexity Challenge Our Understanding of Wormholes?
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Graduate Confusion about Rayleigh-Jeans law
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Graduate Why do changing magnetic fields produce electric fields?
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Graduate What is the condition for a particle to go into a square potential well?
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Graduate Bell inequality violated with classical light in experiment
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Graduate Who would be interested in an EPR thought experiment?
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Graduate How Can Gravitons Escape A Black Hole?
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Graduate Thought double-slit experiment
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Graduate No interference pattern in double slit when there is a lens?
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Graduate Question on the photoelectric effect?
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics an artifact of our ignorance?
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Graduate Observational Effect: Defining Particle Position
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Graduate Flame colors - where's the chlorine?
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A New Thread: 5,000th Post & New Paper!
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Graduate Do observables for polarizers at different angles commute?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle if position is restricted
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Insights You Will Not Tunnel Through a Wall - Comments
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Undergrad Why electrons never make contact with the nucleus?
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Graduate SU(2) Rotation & Spinors: Connected?
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Graduate Quantum locking -- Good sources of info?
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Graduate Question about quantum superposition in CMB photons
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Graduate Schrodinger equation - stationary states
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Graduate A question about commutaiton between operator
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Graduate A "false" superimposed qubit vs a "real one"
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Graduate Observed interference in afshar's double slit experiment?
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Graduate Is There One Electromagnetic Field in the Universe or Multiple Fields?
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Graduate Noetherian currents and the Surface term
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