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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Is the electromagnetic field more or less real than the quantum wavefunction?
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Graduate Interpreting E=hf: Particle, Wave & Planck's Constant
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Graduate Do spinors still do "funky" weird stuff in 1+1 spacetime?
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Graduate How to treat spin orbit operator directly
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Graduate Dirac spinor in 1+1d, do the 2 components represent spin?
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Graduate Radio Antenna: How Photons Help Decode FM and AM Radio Signals
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Graduate What happens to electron wave as it travles to light speed
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Graduate Effective occupation number of photon
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Graduate Gauge Fixing Term and Equations of Motion
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Graduate Phasing of spin due to a radiofrequency pulse
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Graduate Virtual particles coming into existence
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Graduate Light's orbital angular momentum
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Graduate Quantum theory of radiation
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Undergrad What is the concept of photon momentum in simple experiments?
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Graduate Cavity quantum electrodynamics
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Graduate Zero Point Energy: Is it Present in Cavity Only?
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Graduate What Defines a Local Operator in Position Space?
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Graduate How Does Measurement Affect Photon Behavior in the Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Double-slit experiment and gravity
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Graduate Possible Logical Flaw in Sakurai
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Graduate Laser Lattice: Understanding Frequency & Wave Vector Effects
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Graduate Question About Hilbert Space Convention
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Graduate Strong force and beta function
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment with Electrons
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Graduate Are these articles proof that wave function is real?
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Graduate Ways to put subatomic particles in indeterminate state
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Graduate Complete set of eigenvectors question
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Graduate Why Does xp ≠ i * hbar? | Wolfram Alpha
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Graduate Orbital Angular Momentum and Photon Energy
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Graduate Is prior information lost during/after entanglement?
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Graduate Quantized Gravity: GR, Gravitational Waves & Gravitons
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Graduate Envisioning Electron Wave Properties
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Graduate Does a bullet have a wavefront stuck in its nose in vacuum?
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Graduate Casimir Effect Force in a Collapsing Sphere
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Graduate Question about time in QM vs. special relativity?
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Graduate Is wave function a real physical thing?
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Graduate Is wave function a probability function of time?
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Graduate BBC Jim Al-Khalili Presentation -- robin bird eyes use quantum entanglement?
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Graduate Does Particle Spin Refer to Rotation?
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Graduate Help? UrgentEntanglement Stumped: Get Urgent Help Now!
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Graduate Diagonalizabilty versus spread for uncertainty (discrete)
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Graduate Group and Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Understanding Faithful Measurement in Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad How to overcome the drawback of rutherford's model?
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Graduate What is the significance of Bell's Inequality Theorem in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Double Slit Experiments with Electrons
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Graduate Question about spin operators and eigenvalues
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Graduate Physical meaning of the Feynman slash
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Graduate How Does the Momentum Operator Act in the Matrix Element <pm|p|pn>?
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Graduate Quantum Computing with Zero Spin Atoms?
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Graduate Thinking about the Schrodinger wave equation
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Graduate Qubits, 2 complex numbers, forcing one to real
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Graduate How Does the Two Slit Experiment Illustrate Quantum Duality?
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Graduate Why does photoelectric emission not depend on intensity?
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Graduate Time-dep Hamiltonian commute with time evolution?
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Graduate Modern Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory Texts for Beginners
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Graduate Meaning of Commutation Relation
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Graduate Wigner-Eckart theorem in Stark effect
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Graduate What Is the Difference Between SDD and Stuttgart Pseudopotential?
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Graduate Renormalization question in phi^4 theory
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Graduate Creating radiowave entangled photons
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Graduate Equivalence of waveparticle duality to uncertainty principle
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Graduate Polarization of an emitted photon
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Graduate Realism in QM: Existing Before Measurement?
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Graduate Mathematical Explanation of One partice in two place
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Graduate Finite and infinite unitary transformation
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Graduate Creating a Laser with Different Types of Radiance
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Graduate Counterterms in saddle point expansion
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Graduate Momentum operator eigenfunction
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Graduate ? connection between uncertainty and wave-particle duality
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Graduate Field Quantization: Raising & Lowering Operators
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Graduate How do physicists know wave function extends to infinity?
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Graduate Calculate Quantum Mechanics: The Way
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Graduate Understanding the Path Integral Formulation in Feynman's Theory
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Graduate Confusion over quantum mechanics operators
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Graduate Question re: photon interference
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Graduate Psi Epistemicism & the Reality of Particles & Atoms
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Graduate Feynman rules - where do the imaginary numbers come from?
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Graduate A festive analogy for interpreting quantum mechanics
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Graduate Coherence in density matrix formalism
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Graduate Derivations for Schrodinger's equations for potential step
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Graduate Bjorken Drell derivation - Lorentz transformation
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Undergrad How do electrons orbit the nucleus?
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Graduate Could electron scatter off vacuum fluctuations?
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Graduate Kinetic energy in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Is the wavefunction/quantum_state in electron interference experiments real?
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High School Are Physical Waves Real Objects?
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Graduate Incompleteness of Bell's Theorems
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Graduate Does anyone know what Pilot wave theory is?
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Graduate Particles that are traveling towards the past
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Graduate Quick question on notation of the Hamiltonian
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Graduate What does Weinberg–Witten theorem want to express?
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Graduate Is Kaluza-Klein Theory Relevant to Quantum Mechanics and Non-Locality?
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Graduate How do we know uncertainty principal isnt ignorance?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics documentaries
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Graduate What Inspired Planck's Quantum Breakthrough in Black-Body Radiation?
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Undergrad How does magnetic interactions happen in proximity?
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Graduate Is this EM field *due* to charged particle or external?
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Graduate What is trivial and non-trivial gate in computing?
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Undergrad Linear operator and linear vector space?
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