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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Infinite Potential Colliding with Wave Function: Is it Correct?
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Graduate Multiple universes in cosmology and quantum mechanics
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Graduate Large N Expansion: Getting Started
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Graduate Calculating Probability Density in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate States are or aren't unit vectors?
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Graduate Is Yang-Mills scale invariant?
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Graduate Can you combine wavelengths to ionize atoms
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Graduate Do London dispersion forces play a role in biological replication?
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Graduate Quantum Zeno Effect: What is the argument? (Part II)
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Graduate Q3: How do we measure rotational degrees of freedom in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Does QM violate the causality principle?
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Graduate Is it possible to use Quantam entanglement to study event horizon
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Graduate What is the disparity in the dimensionality of angular momenta?
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Graduate Does spin have a spatial direction
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Graduate Double slit experiment with electrons - detector at one slit
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Graduate Mermin's One-Measurement Refutation of Local Hidden Variables
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Graduate Atomic Probability Densities Always Even?
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle & Ground State of Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate Some questions about spin in relation to the stern-gerlach experiment
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Graduate Non-Relativistic QED Textbook Reference - Zag
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Graduate Finite well penetration depths dependence on Well Length
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Graduate Quantum Explanation of Magnets
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Graduate C from quantum first principles?
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Graduate Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field
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Graduate Is it possible for a wave function to have a discontinuous first derivative?
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Graduate Use of component tensor product in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Storing data in quantum spaces.
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Graduate Quantum dots Need help in analysis
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Graduate Are there any decoherance experiments someone could link to me?
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Graduate What is the role of symmetry in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Another proof that local realism does not work
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Graduate Trying to understand Hermitian adjoint proof
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Undergrad Double slit experimental method
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Graduate What causes the repulsive force in diatomic molecules?
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Graduate Simultaneously diagonalize two operators
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Graduate Shifting integration variable when determing population densities
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Graduate Parition function for Boson gas with two quantum numbers
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Undergrad Closing the Free Will Loophole: What to Expect
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Graduate Optical Tweezers experiment =]
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Graduate Higgs field as the 5th fundamental force?
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Graduate A step in derivation of E-t uncertainty not clear
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Graduate Can there be multiple ground states?
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Graduate How are atoms not in superposition if the electrons are
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Graduate Commutators, mutual eigenkets, and observables
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Undergrad Less than one photon, what does it mean?
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Graduate Left hand side of the Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Why is a massless spin-2 automatically a graviton
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Graduate Transition Rates / Squared Dirac Delta
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Graduate Recommended Books for Beginners in Particle Physics
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Graduate What state do we have if we don't know if a measurement was performed?
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Graduate Matrix Elements: LHO & Dirac Notation
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Graduate Phonons: For oscillator wave function
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Graduate Klein Paradox - Dirac equation with step potentional
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Graduate Why do bound systems have less rest mass than the sum of its parts?
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Graduate Is the Stern-Gerlach experiment sufficient?
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Graduate Planck and Maxwell-boltzman distribution
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Graduate The Dirac Lagrangian Density: A Brief Overview
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Graduate Definition of a Gaussian wave packet for a Initial State
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Graduate Passing a black kole from double slit experiment setup
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Graduate The one-loop correction in Lehmann-Kallen form
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Graduate Unitary Operator Inverse Transformation: Solving for a_m
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Graduate Understanding Energy and Frequency in Rotation Spectra
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Graduate Understanding Standing Waves in Hydrogen with Animation and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Understanding Spin-Orbit Interaction's Impact on Electron Energy Levels
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Graduate The double slit experiment question?
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Graduate Collapsing the wavefuntion to an Energy Eigenfunction?
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Graduate Are Lasers Truly Examples of Quantum Coherent States?
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Graduate Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector problem
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Graduate Form of Solution to Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty or hidden variable
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Graduate Completeness of the eigenfunctions (Which vectorspace?)
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Graduate One dimensional problems. More particles.
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Graduate Perturbation theory (the math)
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Graduate What is the average value of an observable in a quantum system?
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Graduate Phase factors with eigenstates
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Undergrad Activity of photon during wavelegnth duration
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Graduate How Can Mixed States Be Prepared Beyond Decoherence?
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Graduate Is determinism truly at play in this scenario?
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Graduate Why do two people see the same experimental results?
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Graduate All eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix are real
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Graduate Fermi's Golden Rule: non-sinusoidal [itex]t\to\infty[/itex]
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Graduate Graph States for Quantum Secret Sharing
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Graduate Didn't understand what Sakurai meant by this.
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Graduate Exact S-matrix for potential scattering
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Graduate Diffraction accompanied with photoelectric effect
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Graduate C-G coefficients by matrix method
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Graduate The Relationship Between Wavelength and Amplitude of Photons and Electrons
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Graduate Mean Occupation Number of Non-interacting quantum fluids
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Graduate Name of this relation, and struggle proving it.
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Graduate What's up with the absorptive quantum eraser?
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Graduate QFT (derivative the covariant and contravariant fields)
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Graduate Spin as internal angular momentum
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Graduate Quantum Physics Science Advanced Project
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Graduate Joint distribution of position and momentum
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Graduate Understanding Spin Magnetic Field and its Direction in Relation to Charge Spin
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Graduate Can Quantum States Be Deduced from a Density Matrix?
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Graduate Definition of Pointer in Measurement
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Graduate Simultaneous measuring of two operators
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Graduate Fourier transform. Impulse representation.
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Graduate Is the Momentum Operator Hermitian in Quantum Mechanics?
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