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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

A question about quantum entanglement
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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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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