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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Photoelectric effect without photons
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Graduate Relabeling spin or angular momentum operators
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Graduate Why Can't Quantum Numbers Include Half Integers?
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Graduate How Can We Manipulate 8 Quantum Combinations with Qubit Computing?
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Graduate Scaling of an eigenvalue with the coupling constant
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Graduate The ground state e- is the largest negative value, but why?
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Graduate Generalized Dirac Equation for All Fermions?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle and relativity
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Graduate Hawking Radiation: The Role of Electromagnetism in Black Hole Evaporation
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Graduate Beginner to QM with some questions
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Graduate Light like interval in wave function
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Graduate Diffraction wavelength of particles in moving frames?
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Graduate What is the relation between wave function on a photon
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Graduate Direction of a photon is fixed upon creation or observation?
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Graduate Vacuum energy-fundamental particle
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Graduate Generating function for the zeta function of the Hamiltonian
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Graduate Connection between Pauli XYZ and spatial XYZ
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Graduate The original postulates of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Probability of quantum tunneling?
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Graduate What are matrix elements in QFT?
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Graduate Energy Eigenstates inside a one-dimension box
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Graduate The Mysteries of Quantum Entanglement with Delayed Choice Question
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Graduate I'm having some trouble understanding bra-ket notation?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Exam Prep for PhDs
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Graduate What does the symbol sigma represent in electromagnetic calorimetry equations?
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Graduate Hermitian conjugate of a Hermitian Conjugate
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Graduate Momentum operator in curvilinear coordinates
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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Space Φ ⊂ H ⊂ Φ'
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Graduate Why two-state system = two-dimensional Hilbert space?
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Graduate How to find the energy level if a three state system
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Graduate On the huge hypothetical atom
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Graduate Is the Quotient of Two Operators AB-1 or B-1A?
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Graduate Wave function for a potential barrier
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Graduate What makes expectation values real?
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Graduate What experiment demonstrates Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
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Graduate System of 2 particles: why is the wavefunction a product?
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Graduate Spin wavefunction for 2 electrons
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Graduate Coefficients in wave function for potential step
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Graduate How Does the Parity Operator Affect Spin States?
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Graduate Solution to Schroedinger Equation for a huge hypothetical
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Graduate Localization of states and elementary vs composite in QM
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Graduate Unitarity and locality on patgh integrals
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Graduate Schrödinger's cat explain color charge?
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Undergrad Bell's inequality for non-physicists
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Graduate Is Adding a Phase to the Wavefunction in Quantum Mechanics a Wrong Assumption?
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Graduate Is Everything Connected by Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Question regarding time independent perturbation theory
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Graduate Cooling and (or?) heating ion trap experiments
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Graduate Direct Product of Two Spin-Up Vectors: What Is It?
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Graduate Confusion About Quantum Uncertainty
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Graduate What is the polarization of a virtual photon
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Graduate How to devise an experiment that violates uncertainty principle
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Graduate Quantum Leap: Electrons and Instant Movement
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Graduate Passing a black hole from double slit experiment setup
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Graduate Large n-pt functions renormalized by small n-pt functions?
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Graduate Can Quantum Decoherence Math Explain Color Charge States of Quarks?
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Undergrad Very curious integral (overlap integral)
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Graduate Can Microwaving Chocolate Really Measure the Speed of Light?
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Undergrad Debunking Quantum Woo: A Lay Person's Guide
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Graduate Wave function with a certain wavelength
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Graduate Help to 2-point correlation function in $ \phi^{4} $-theory
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Graduate Preparing a spin state and measurements
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics in 1+1 spacetime
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Graduate Could multiple dimensions explain quantum leap?
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Graduate John Wheeler & QM: Unpacking His Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Davisson-Germer experiment and Bragg's law
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Graduate Can Different Dielectric Values Affect the Distribution of the Casimir Force?
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Graduate Nonrelativistic free particle propagators
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Undergrad Books on quantum computing, qbits
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Graduate What does it mean by wave nature of matter?
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Graduate What is the difference classical pixel and quantum pixel?
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Graduate Angular momentum operator justification
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Undergrad Calculate Complex Conjugate of Ψ(x,t) for x=4, t=9
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Graduate Non-locality versus Action-at-a-distance
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Graduate Hard Drive that uses quantum state
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Graduate Is Charge Conserved in Electromagnetic Interactions Between Particles?
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Graduate Understanding the Parity-Flipping Nature of the Momentum Operator
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Graduate Why does field Lagrangian depend on four-derivative?
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Graduate Vac fluct e+/e- field correlated because charge conservation
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Graduate Tracking states of randomness with three states
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Graduate How is Degeneracy Resolved by Building a CSCO?
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Graduate Does a particle really try every possible path?
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Undergrad Can One Object Exist in Multiple Places Simultaneously?
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Undergrad What shapes do d orbital represent?
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Graduate Dimensional analysis and coupling constant
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High School Why the orbitals can contain maximum of 2 electrons?
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Graduate How do you mathematically describe wave function overlap?
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Graduate Question with respect to a Max Planck article
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Graduate Perturbing Hamiltonian optical absorption in semiconductors
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Graduate Quick questions regarding BRA KET notation
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Graduate How Does Particle Proximity Affect Transition Probability to the Singlet State?
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Graduate What are the Complementary Parameters in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Observations one at a time is this a valid illustration?
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Graduate Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
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Graduate Matter Waves and Electromagnetic Waves
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Graduate Find the time dependent wave function
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Graduate Is anyone here familiar with the dynamical Casimir effect?
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High School The speed of light in a medium
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Graduate Light and atom interaction hamiltonian
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Graduate How can I animate quantum tunneling using Python and pseudocode?
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