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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light?
Graduate Sum of spin for chiral particles?
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Graduate What is the significance of spinor technology in quantum field theory?
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Graduate Wavefunction real physical object?
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Graduate 1000 Basis functions limitation - Gaussian 09?
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Graduate Question on John Bell's Original Paper
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Graduate Use of Trotter Theorem in Path Integral Molecular Dynamics
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Graduate Dependence of operators on the wave function
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Graduate Advanced mathematics in theoretical physics
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Undergrad The triangle inequality in CHSH, where is the triangle?
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Graduate Help please, need advice on what to study to understand
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Graduate Photon entanglement: why three angles?
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Graduate Bell's Inequality Explanation for Intelligent Non-Scientist
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Graduate Squared operators and sums of operators in practice
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Graduate PBS Interferometer: Testing Polarization of Photons
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Graduate Is the Current Density Operator Related to Classical Magnetic Moment?
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Graduate Matrix for a Stern-Gerlach apparatus
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Graduate What is QED Theory and How Does It Explain Electric Charge Interactions?
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Graduate Lorentz transformation, quantum field theory
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Graduate How do virtual particles mediate?
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Graduate Question about Lorentz Invariance and Gamma Matrices
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Graduate Calculation of the Natural Linewidth
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Graduate Local hidden variables for double slit
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Graduate Unaccounted Electrons in Quantum Tunnelling Composites: What Happens to Them?
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Graduate Quantum computer revived by the influence of Google ?
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Graduate How would you explain Planck units to layman?
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Graduate Which of these Quantum mechanics video lectures(ocw) is good?
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Graduate Is this an example of a gauge theory? How?
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Undergrad Normalizing a wavefunction and probability help
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Graduate Dirac's Argument and Charge Quantization in Composite Particles
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Graduate Blackbody radiation over whole frequency spectrum
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Graduate What is the significance of a Quantum Top in Chaichian & Demichev's work?
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Graduate Two-point correlation function in path integral formulation
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Graduate Little group and photon polarizations
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High School Where would the highest concentration of electrons be located?
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Undergrad Why Doesn't an Electron Collapse into a Proton Despite Opposite Charges?
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Graduate If <p> = 0 how can we know the energy of the system
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Graduate Orthonormal Basis: Show A is Self-Adjoint
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Graduate What is the mathematical basis for understanding the wave property of particles?
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Graduate Caculating SAB overlap of two Kohn-Sham determinants
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Graduate Does Busch's Theorem Offer a Simplified Proof of Gleason's Theorem?
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Graduate How do polarisers let a photon through
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Graduate Double-Slit Experiment Variations List
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Graduate Particle Spin - how to cause change to direction
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Graduate Why Quantization? Elucidating Wave Nature of Particles
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Undergrad Are atomic orbitals electron standing waves?
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Undergrad Relation of radiation wavelength and photosynthetic photon flux?
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Undergrad Electron Orbitals: Determining Energy Differences Between Orbitals
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Graduate Qubits and angular momentum-like operators
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Graduate Under what circumstances does the wave function collapse?
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Undergrad Confusion about electron energy levels
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Graduate Quantum Fluctuations: Origins Explored
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Graduate What does a spin 1/2 wave function actually look like
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Graduate (help) physician wants to focus on quantum biology
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation: QFT-Book Analysis
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Graduate Quantum imaging with undetected photons
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Graduate Renormalization and scale dependence
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Graduate Is psi-function really a cloud of probability?
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Graduate How is total angular momentum conserved in particle physics?
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Graduate Distance between equilibrium and nonequilibrium states
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Graduate Dynamical Variables As Operators
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Quantum physics doesen't say that our thoughts manifest in reality
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Graduate How Did Paul Dirac's E=mc² Lead to the Discovery of Antimatter?
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Graduate Are composite particles, like atoms, identical bosons/fermions?
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Graduate Sniping slits in double slit experiment?
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Graduate Positron to replace proton as the nucleus of an atom
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Graduate Radial polarization and optical vortex
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Graduate Comparing Gauge and Higgs Fields
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Graduate Quantum state: Reality or mere probability?
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Graduate What is the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Quantum weirdness in everyday life
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Graduate Simplifying Operator and Dirac Algebra for Kets
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Graduate Modeling CO2 Laser as a 4-Level Laser
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Graduate Are normalization constants of wave equation time dependent?
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Graduate Spin, linear momentum and orbital angular momentum
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Graduate Polarization of a photon how do we know?
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Undergrad What causes stimulated emission to occur in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What are virtual particles and why do they have large implications?
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Graduate Is there a blue-anti blue gluon?
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Undergrad Walking sinusoidal as you follow a RF Standing Wave?
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Graduate Photon Momentum varies along waveform?
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Physics Identities
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Graduate Spin/angular magnetism Bohr magneton quantum thing
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Graduate What Is Psi in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Identical particles and Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Gauge Invariance in QM: P_y - Conserved or Not?
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Graduate How an electromagnetic amplitude becomes QM probability?
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Graduate Analyzing Innsbruck Bell experiment raw data sample
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Graduate Are Particles or Fields More Fundamental in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Is |psi|^2 Really Just a Probability Density in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Why is entanglement necessary for understanding quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Wave packet with increasing time
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Graduate Understanding the Incompatibility of Discrete Space and Time with Relativity
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Graduate Need help modelling Quantum Tunnelling Composites
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Graduate Does energy level determine degeneracy in 3D systems?
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Graduate Question on angular momentum of triplet and singlet wavefunctions
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Graduate Solving Schwartz QFT Eqn 5.26 to Get Eqn 5.27
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Graduate Trying to understand quantum mechanics
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Graduate Different forms of Schrodinger equation
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Graduate FTL Neutrinos: Investigating the Failure of the OPERA Experiment
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Graduate What sub-field of quantum information should I focus on for my research?
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