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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate How Are Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Related in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Entangled particle through double slit
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Graduate Splitting Gamma-Ray Photons: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Quantized Spacetime and Zeno's Paradox: A Solution to the Arrow Paradox?
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Graduate If electrons are fundamental particles then why do they -
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Graduate Harmonic oscillator in Heisenberg picture
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Graduate Why the photoelectric absorption section finite at threshold
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Graduate Geometric measure of entanglement for fermions or bosons?
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Graduate How is quantum interference achieved with atoms fired from opposite directions?
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Graduate A brief question on quantum thermodinamics.
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Graduate Commutators, Traces & [x,p] = I(hbar) Explained
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Graduate How can we explain continuous absorption / emission?
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Graduate Casimir Effect and Calculate Energy Density of it
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Graduate Is Quantum Teleportation Possible Through Electron-Positron Annihilation?
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Graduate How would observation of the state of qubits affect them?
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Graduate Operators for measuring superposition component distinctnes?
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Graduate How Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Limit Electron Spin Directions?
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Graduate Double slit experiment and Interaction
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Graduate Is the Holographic Universe Theory a Valid Concept?
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Graduate Why doesn't orbital angular momentum operator L commute with scalar operator S?
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Graduate Quantum entanglement can be used for achieve FLT
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Graduate What is the Physical Meaning of the Hartree-Fock Approximation?
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Graduate Using Quantum Entanglement to know the future?
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Graduate Difference Between Two Thoughts on Wave Function Collapse?
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Graduate Dirac Equation and Pauli Matrices
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Graduate Effect of proton spin & nuclear interaction on binding energy
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Graduate Quantum states as normal vectors
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Graduate Effect of prton spin& nuclear interaction on binding energy
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Graduate Filling bag with elementary particles
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Graduate Observables vs. continuum and metric?
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Graduate Time Uncertainty and the Collapse of the Wavefunction
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Graduate QM laws fundamental vs effective
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Graduate Position Eigenstates Indeterminacy
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Graduate "Wavepacket of electrons" or "wavepacket of electron"?
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Graduate Probability wave peaks and quantum number
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Graduate How do i visualize probability in double slit
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Graduate Why Do 1s and 2s Orbitals Have Different Electron Probabilities?
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Graduate Delayed Erasure follow-up experiments
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Graduate Can Quantum Eigenvalues Define the Exact Values of Nature's 26 Basic Constants?
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Graduate Construct an ONB for a triatomic molecule
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Graduate 2 particle exchange operator P
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Graduate Absorption and Re-emission of light in an atom
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Graduate Will 2 newly formed wave-packets be entangled?
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Graduate Is the given 1-D potential an example of a bound state?
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Graduate How to Handle Expectation Value of 1/(1+x) in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Superposition of spherical harmonics
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Graduate Understanding Inner Product in Infinite Dimensional Bases
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Graduate Solution to the 1D Free Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Information paradox, dismissed?
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Graduate Gaussian Integral with Denominator in QFT
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Graduate High energy electron in very deep potential well
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Graduate Why can't there be an antisymmetric excited state in a delta function potential?
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Graduate Does consciousness cause Wave-Function collapse?
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Graduate About anti bunching and bunching
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Graduate Readings for a general understanding of Quantum Field Theor?
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Graduate Rotation operators on Bloch sphere
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Graduate How Does Quantum Mechanics Influence Voltage in Rotating Magnetic Fields?
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Graduate Static field from ensemble of photons
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Graduate What is the Slater determinant of a singlet or a triplet?
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Graduate Transmission through semiconductor heterojunction
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Graduate Question regarding wave/particle duality
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Graduate Question regarding spin and magnetic field
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Graduate Philosophy of the Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Improved energy-momentum tensor changing dilation operator
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics is a set of Laws
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Graduate Proof that the set of stationary states are orthonormal?
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Undergrad Photoelectric current: why does it decrease?
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Graduate Entanglement and Bell’s inequality Question
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Graduate Does Commutativity Always Guarantee Shared Eigenkets?
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Graduate Understanding Spectral Line Width and Causes | Optical Wavelengths
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Graduate Momentum operator eigenstates/eigenvalues
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Undergrad Accuracy of Classical Mechanics
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Graduate Question about double slit and entanglement
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Undergrad What is an Extinction Spectrum? Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles
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Graduate How do you get the color singlet combination of quarks?
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Graduate Calculating measurement probabilities for the CHSH game
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High School Why Do 3D Shapes Appear as Ripples on a Pond?
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Graduate Applicability of perturbation theory
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Graduate A question on calculating entangled spin probability
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Graduate The Mathematical Structure of QM and the Stern Gerlach
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Graduate Preparing Quantum Systems: Understanding State Preparation and Its Importance
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Really Support Time Reversibility?
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Graduate Prerequisites for Quantum Field Theory (QFT)
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Graduate General form for 2 x 2 unitary matrices
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Graduate What do the color maps in spherical harmonics represent?
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Graduate Understanding Scattering Length in Atom Interaction: A Comprehensive Guide
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Graduate Expectation Value of Operator A: c or Complex Conjugate?
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Undergrad First photograph of light as both a particle and wave
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Graduate Math of environment-particle entanglement
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Graduate How to entangle nearly 3000 atoms using a single photon
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Graduate From observable to operators in QFT
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Graduate Spectrum broadening and conservation of energy?
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Graduate Classical Limit of a Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Is a Coherent Buckyball Immune to Gravity?
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Graduate Expectation for many-body system
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Graduate Ground state of hamonic oscilator
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Graduate Non-separability : basis dependent
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Graduate How Do Superposition Preparations Differ for Single vs. Entangled States?
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Graduate Non changing variables in wave function.
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Graduate Time dependence in quantum theory
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