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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Quantum interpretations and indistinguishable elementary particles
Graduate Quantum field theory questions?
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Graduate Compute subband structure of graphene
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Graduate What if dark energy is just orphan energy floating around in the universe?
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Graduate What are some good pedagogical QM papers?
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Graduate Relativistic Boltzmann (including QM) equation from entropy?
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Graduate How Is the Cross Section Related to the Imaginary Part of the Action?
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Measurement Rules Quantum Universe
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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty principle calculations
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Graduate What is renormalization exactly?
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Graduate How far do W+ - and Z guage bosons travel in m?
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Graduate What Dictates the Spin Direction of an Electron?
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Graduate General solution for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Delayed choice experiment article on science alert
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Graduate Question about harmonic poential trap
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Graduate Measurement, Quantum Wierdness and Single-Effect Events
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Graduate Understanding Photon Absorption in Radio Wavelengths: 3 Key Questions Explored
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Graduate Can Electrons Bounce Off Voltage Potentials?
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Graduate Can Quantum Physics Redefine Our Understanding of Free Will?
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Graduate Quantum State of Cards: Is the Top Card Set Before Viewing?
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Graduate Is there a quantum theory of other entities besides particles and fields?
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Graduate Two different ways? (probability denstities and currents)
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Graduate When are isomorphic Hilbert spaces physically different?
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Graduate Position measurement in Non-Relativistic QM
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Graduate Bell's Inequality - A misintepretation of probability?
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Graduate How Can You Access Time Reversibility in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What is a topological phase transition and how is it characterized?
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Graduate Electron recoil from light emission
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Graduate Solving Low-Density Fock Spacings Issues with "Product Fock Spaces
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Graduate How Long Do Quantum Effects Last in Biological Processes?
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Graduate Entangled photons and their Parents
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Graduate Wilson Loop and spontaneous symmetry breaking.
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Graduate Radiation of accelerated charge in QM
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Graduate Quantum explanation for Passive Intermodulation (PIM)
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Graduate What's the problem with (non-causal) nonlocality?
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Graduate Integral kernel in vacuum wave functional
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: one at a time
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Graduate SU(N) symmetry breaking by non-trivial parity.
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Graduate Reduced Density Matrix Entropy in 1D Spin Chain
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Graduate Shrodinger's cat is "invisible"
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Undergrad Zero Potential Level: Excited State or Not?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Have 'Elegant' Trajectories in Hilbert Space?
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Graduate Quantum entanglement on a cosmological scale?
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Graduate Photon emission from dipole antenna
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Graduate How/why decoherence rather than how/why coherence
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Graduate Books on quantum mechanics with intuition
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Group Theory questions
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Undergrad Electron Orbitals: Learn about Shapes & Charges
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Graduate Classical versus quantum momentum
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Graduate Dirac Hydrogen Atom: Parity and Odd-Operator
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Graduate Shouldn't a metal at 0K emit electromagnetic radiation?
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Graduate The quantum number n and its restrictions
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Graduate Explore Quantum Visualization and Single Particle Interference Simulation
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Graduate Calculate Eigen Function of 3D Potential Box w/ Doubled X Side
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Graduate Is a photon of dimension zero?
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Graduate Expected result of such an experiment?
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Graduate Why no decoherence after reflection from metal film
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Graduate How can you actually measure the electron position?
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Graduate Energy of the electron in a random hydrogen atom
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Graduate Radiative heat transfer in multi-component media
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Graduate Understanding the Planck Scale
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Graduate QED vacuum and Lorentz invariance
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Insights How to Stop an Electron from Falling into a Proton - Comments
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Graduate Identical Particles in Ballentine's Book
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Graduate Units of Wave function (Schrodinger equation)
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Graduate Confused about angular momentum
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Graduate Understanding ultraviolet catastrophe
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Graduate How Do Qubits and Multiple Qubit Systems Enhance Computing Power?
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Graduate Under what conditions is a photon a particle?
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Graduate Can Virtual Particles Be Observed in Experiments?
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Graduate Where is the flaw with predetermined entanglement state?
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Graduate How to calculate density matrix for the GHZ state
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Graduate Understanding Reflection Planes in Diatomic Molecules
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Undergrad Why Does Light Exhibit Both Particle and Wave Properties?
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Graduate What do we mean by Classical Simulation of Quantum Algorithm
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High School What is the difference between simple harmonic wave and stationary wave?
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Graduate Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory & Completeness
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Graduate Question regarding the double slit experiment
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Graduate Ballistic conduction and Superconductivity
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Graduate Is another definition of sum useful?
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Graduate Measurement of a Hydrogen qubit?
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Graduate Green's Functions and Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Spin 1/2 - Is √3/2ħ or √¾ħ Correct?
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Graduate What is the point to study Anti-bunching?
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Graduate Comparing the Uncertainty Principle: Griffiths vs. Shankar
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Graduate Superposition & Mixture : Preparation and Representation of
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Graduate Unpacking the Physics Behind the Annihilator-Creator Operator Formula
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Graduate Scattering amplitude, link between quantum mechanics and QFT
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Graduate Ammonia molecule geometry and radiation
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Graduate Observer Big Bang? How come electrons have a wave nowadays?
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Graduate Transmission: Finite Potential Barriers & Potential Steps
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Graduate Single photon double slit, reset detector after each impact
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Graduate Has anyone ever done this experiment before? quantum entanglement
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Graduate Hiding the observer with gravitational measurements?
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Graduate What Algorithms Extract Information from Quantum Eigenvalues?
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Graduate Dispersion relation for non-relativistic quantum particles
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Graduate Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect question
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Graduate Are discrete particles and fields both present in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate More evidence that the wavefunction is ontologically real?
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Graduate Can we model classical world using quantum laws?
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser & The Observer (2000)
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