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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Particle waves through a potential barrier
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Graduate Physical difference between singlet and triplet states
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Graduate What do you understand about quantum entanglement?
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Graduate In what sense do within-H-atom electrons "move" at ~1/137c?
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Graduate Is it possible to travel to parallel universes?
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Graduate Finding coefficients of superposition of states
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Graduate Parallel Universe: Do Many Possibilities Dissolve?
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High School The Electron's First Spin: An Overview
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Graduate Symmetric and Antisymmetric Depiction
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Graduate Spin 1/2 Particle: Uncertainty Principle Explained
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Graduate Representation of spin matrices
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Fate of the Bucket in a Thought Experiment?
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Graduate Implications of the no-clone theorem
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Graduate Calculation of the running coupling
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Graduate Commutation between operators of different Hilbert spaces
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Undergrad High Spin: Unraveling the Mystery of Mono Atomic Gold
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Graduate Is the speed of light in a vacuum affected by an electric field?
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Undergrad Why photons reflect off glass?
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Graduate Atomic dipole moment for a superposition state
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Graduate What is the problem with point particles?
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Graduate Why Are There Blank Spaces in Quantum Mechanics Orbitals?
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Graduate Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty question
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Graduate Law of baryon conservation questions
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Graduate EPR & Bell: What's Wrong with My Scenario?
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Graduate Hamilton Operator for particle on a circle -- Matrix representation....
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Graduate Dirac Relativistic Wave Equation
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Graduate Are Quantum Physics & Classical Physics incompatible?
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Graduate Derivation of T1 term in Bloch equations
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Graduate Quantum Biology: Life on the Edge - Where is the Electron?
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High School Is quantum physics a theory of unknowledge ?
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Graduate Why do Black Holes evaporate due to Hawking radiation?
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Graduate Using GHz multi-particle entanglement for FTL communication
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Graduate Do X-Ray Tracks in Photo Film Suggest Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Can I Make a Casimir Device at Home?
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Graduate Does entangled polarized photon get through filter?
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Graduate Total angular momentum operator for a superposition
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Graduate Harmonic oscillator coherent state wavefunction
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Graduate Field Excitations and their Collisions
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Graduate Coherence length of a single photon
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Graduate Why do we need a normalisation constant for wavefunctions?
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Graduate Does Conscious Observation Influence Quantum State Collapse?
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Graduate Is an electron considered a singularity by some physicists?
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Graduate QM notes with entanglement, Bell, decoherence, etc.
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Graduate Superposition / Probability Wave - frame rate problem?
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Graduate How to Graph an Electron Orbital?
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Graduate Can this be explained using statistical mechanics only?
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Graduate Getting to Grips with Dirac Notation: A Stuck Student's Story
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Graduate Lorentz transformation of a scalar field
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Graduate Question on quantum entanglement
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Graduate How to Relate \(\frac{1}{m^2}\lambda J^4\) to Figure 1.7.1 in Zee's QFT Book?
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Graduate Understanding Spin in Quantum Mechanics: The Mystery of Schrodinger's Cat
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Undergrad Implications of the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
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Graduate Dirac Equation - Analytic Solution?
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Graduate Are Hilbert spaces still necessary?
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Graduate Ground state and stationary states
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Graduate What actually happens when light meets a surface(QED or QM)?
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Graduate Do Spin-Orbit Interactions change the Orbital of an Electron
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The Dancing WuLi Masters: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics and maybe QFT
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Undergrad Understanding STM Microscopes: The Role of Voltage in Physics
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Graduate What operators are involved in angular momentum states?
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Graduate Is DCQE erasing information or resetting the system?
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Undergrad Schrodinger's cat, the multiverse and isolated systems
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Graduate Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect explanation
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Graduate Can Non Realism = Non Deterministic Hidden Variable Theory
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Graduate Is quantum programming really possible?
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Graduate Thermal Emission and Scattering (Mie or Rayleigh)
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Graduate Comments - Some Useful Integrals In Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Macroscopic observation of interference?
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High School How does quantum tunneling occur without an observer?
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High School Do each point in solid have a special energy state?
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Graduate Measurement operator for Chsh experiment
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Graduate Quantum Threshold Scheme , no cloning theorem
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Graduate Electron-Electron Interaction & Photon-Electron Interaction?
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Graduate Does the Spin of an Atom's Electrons Affect its Orbital Configuration?
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Graduate What's the universe collapsing into?
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Graduate Is there a difference between an electron anti-neutrino and a positron neutrino?
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Undergrad Is the Planck length the smallest measurable length?
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Graduate Can (almost) all the properties be entangled
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Graduate Is this statement about the Uncertainty Principle correct?
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Graduate Dimensional analysis on equation including scattering length
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Graduate Does CP Violation Influence Entropy Through Altered Thermal Radiation?
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High School How Does Quantum Entanglement Not Violate Causality?
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Graduate Double slit experiment - bias towards normal pattern?
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Graduate Commutator of creation/annihilation operators (continuum limit)
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Graduate Weinberg 5.9.34: Is Charge Conservation Resolved?
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Graduate How to Generate a 3D Grid for Tight Binding Wave Functions?
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Graduate Double slit experiment and mirrors
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Graduate Can Electron Teleportation Occur in Small Time Intervals?
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Graduate Sterman's QFT - 2.7b (on functional derivatives)
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Graduate What is the accepted interpretation of the quantum nature of matter?
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Graduate QM and Crook's Fluctuation Theorem
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Graduate The Significance of the Hermition Conjugate in Wave Functions
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Graduate Kim's delayed choice quantum eraser -- Is it really delayed?
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Graduate Delayed choice measurement subsequent analysis
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Graduate How is speed of light in glass defined in QM/QED?
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Undergrad Empty space in atoms vs orbits
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Graduate Can hidden variable theories assign values to observables?
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Graduate Understanding Eigenfunctions and Operators in Quantum Mechanics
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