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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Quantum interpretations and indistinguishable elementary particles
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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Graduate Where does the 1/√N factor in the Dicke model arise from?
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Graduate Derivation of momentum operator
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Graduate Roger Penrose: Objective Reduction & Nonlocal Collapse
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Graduate More questions about Lorentz representation
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Graduate Movement of a wave packet of a free particle
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Graduate Does measurement necessarily change the state?
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Graduate Is it possible to distinguish between pure and mixed states?
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Graduate Independence of Complex Fields?
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Undergrad The double slit experiment the same old
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Graduate Not quite clear in application of fourier series
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Graduate Probability integral, Expectation Value and Square of Psi
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Graduate Commutation of squared angular momentum operators
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Graduate Quantum interference and superposition
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Graduate Path integral and discontinuous paths
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Graduate Probability amplitudes & light / particle wavelengths
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Graduate Understanding the Bohr Model and Electron Decay
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Graduate Probability Postulate in Relativistic QM?
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High School Do Photons Have Mass Despite General Relativity?
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Graduate Applying Bell's Theorem to Non-Photonic Entanglement
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Graduate Boundary Conditions for Hydrogen Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate All electronic component works on quantum probability
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Graduate Slow Light: Spatially Structured Photons Travel Slower Than Speed of Light
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Graduate Understanding Pointer States and Decoherence: A Quantum Perspective
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Graduate How can the Schrodinger equation be applied to a 3D rectangular box?
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Graduate Wavefunctions that don't satisfy Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Solve 3D Dirac Equation: Simple Example
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Graduate On the relation between quantum and statistical mechanics
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Graduate Proof of "Entropy of preparation" in Von Neumann entropy
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Graduate Interaction picture equation from Heisenberg equation
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Graduate Interested in learning quantum theory
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Graduate Can entangled particles communicate through time?
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Graduate Progress on Explaining Bell's Inequality
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Graduate Density functional theory and partial charge transfer
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Graduate Entanglement, why are the spins decided on observation?
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Graduate Are observables like position emergent properties?
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Graduate Understanding virtual particles
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Graduate Momentum conservation, the double slit and Heisenberg
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Graduate Notation on energy level for atoms
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Graduate Is the concept of wave-particle duality outdated in modern quantum theory?
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Graduate How are units of measure defined in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Massless complex field+assumption(s)=massive field. Doable?
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Graduate Wave-particle duality and my non-physicist friend
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Graduate Phenomena near the band edge of photonic crystals
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Graduate Two-Level System Consideration: Electron Indistinguishability
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Graduate How to understand the physics meanings for system x--> ix?
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Graduate How Do Quantum Probability Waves Differ from Classical Waves?
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Graduate How to Determine Group from Commutation Relations?
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Graduate Quantization of EM in UV & vacuum
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Undergrad Ionization energy calculations
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Graduate Black Hole & Quantum Entanglement Experiment
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Graduate From classical statistical physics to quantum physics
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Graduate Keeping the spin constant during an experiment?
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Graduate Physical meaning of a wave packet w/ respect to HUP&duality
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Graduate Single photon, timing jitter, reduced indistinguishability?
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Graduate Is wave-particle duality a myth?
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Graduate How Can Everyday Ion Behavior Illustrate CP Violation?
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Graduate Spectral analysis and displacement law
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Graduate Photon rest mass = 0 wasn't proven experimentally?
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Graduate Wick's Theorem for free fields only
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Graduate Solving the Mystery of 1+2+3+4+... = -1/12
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Graduate Question about the Hamiltonian Operator
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Graduate Possible webpage title: The Limits of Energy Levels in the Infinite Square Well
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Graduate Momentum doesn't exist prior to measurement?
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Graduate Another double-slit question
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Graduate Local hidden variable theories
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Graduate Visually representing entangled qubits (i.e., Bell state)
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Graduate Follow-on to: Is the time-derivative Hermitian?
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Graduate Proof of the preservation of normalizability of the wavefunction
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Graduate Is the future of quantum mechanics retrocausal?
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Undergrad Why is understanding vector space essential for studying quantum physics?
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Graduate Feynman's QED lectures: quickest path and reflection
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Graduate Can Quantum Tunneling Explain the Energy Released by the Sun?
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Graduate When Quantum Mechanics is thrashed by non-physicists #1
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Graduate What happens to the Hamiltonian of the wave function after measurement?
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