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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate What happens on un-ionized electrons after ionization?
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Undergrad Sun Emission Spectrum: Redshift/Blueshift & Visible Light
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and the Second Law
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Graduate What is the radius of a superposition
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Graduate Almost uncontrollable fascination with astro/quantum physics
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Graduate Feynman diagrams and momentum conservation
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Graduate Quantum Spin vs Spin - Understand the Difference
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Graduate Steve Hawking's new take on black holes
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Graduate What Does the Term Field Signify in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate One dimensional Coulomb potential
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Graduate Question about electron slit experiments
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Graduate Assume QM is realistic but non-local: Explain superposition?
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Graduate Photon and anti-photon annihilation?
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Graduate Translating a Wavefunction: Differentiating with Respect to ##a_x##
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Graduate How does the pilot wave theory explain the double slit experiment?
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Graduate Does that classical world even exist?
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Graduate Inner Product in this step of the working
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Graduate Can't figure out how hawking radiation fixes thermodynamic problem
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Graduate How do you build a wave packet and inital conditions
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Graduate What is the pure imaginary number in Dirac's Principles of QM?
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Graduate Coarsening the reference vs. the detection?
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Graduate Ground state of harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Weak Localization: Explaining the Argument
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Graduate Step on Weinberg's QM Book (pp. 154-155)
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Graduate Generalized Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Can a universe form from a true vacuum through quantum tunneling?
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Graduate Quantum theory and the implications on human life
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Graduate Classical versus quantum interference.
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Graduate Characteristics of a Potential Well that is Proportional to -1/|x|
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Undergrad How Did the Bohr Model Account for the Atom's Spherical Appearance?
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Graduate Commutation of Vector-Potential and Field-Operator
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Graduate Understanding SU(2) Adjoint Repr of Algebra
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Graduate Fermi-Dirac distribution for metals
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Graduate Why does the classical world exist
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Graduate Gauge Fixing in Yang-Mills gauge theory
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Graduate Can a Universe with a Lone Star Survive without an Absorber?
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Graduate Derivative of Field-Operator and Vector-Potential
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Graduate As per Japanese physicist (Masahiro Hotta), energy teleporation is possible
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Graduate Path Superposition Vs Entanglement Superposition
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Graduate Can a Klyshko photon be blocked?
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Graduate What Causes the Unique Scattering Patterns in the Ramsauer–Townsend Effect?
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Graduate Normalization of the infinite square well.
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Graduate Light polarisation and photon spin
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Graduate How Would Solving Schrodinger and Dirac Equations Analytically Impact Science?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and extra dimensions?
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Graduate EPR Paradox Confusion: Understanding the Violation of Locality and Uncertainty
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Graduate Uncertainty and entanglement relationship
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Graduate Rules for transforming operators
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Graduate How to select the good basis for the special Hamiltonian?
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Graduate Unsimultaneity and quantum physics
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Graduate Why does energy propagate outwards?
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Graduate Quantum erase explained with waves
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Graduate Can heisenberg uncertainty principle be beaten by fast measurements?
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Graduate Why do we know the particle/quantum field theory is phys of symmetries
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Nucleon Bound Energies
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Graduate From noether theorem to Laplace-runge-lenz vector
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Graduate Why Do Fermion and Boson Operators Commute?
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Graduate Is scalar in adjoint representation always real
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Graduate Common Eigenstates: Definition & Meaning
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Graduate Does quantum mechanics need a conscious observer?
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Graduate Does the Dirac ground state of the H atom have an electron current?
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Graduate The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves
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Graduate Boltzmann vs. Gibbs entropy, negative energy
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Graduate I don't understand <u|A|v> notation
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Graduate How would you interpret experiments if you didn't know the theory?
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Graduate Why don't we see quantum weirdness in everyday world?
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Undergrad Gram-Schmidt Procedure: Step 2 - Calculating Inner Product
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Graduate What exactly is meant by a phase in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Where Is the Two-Loop Correction to g?
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Graduate Understanding the Degeneracy Discriminant in Classical and Quantum Regimes
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Graduate What is the significance of complex conjugates in Bra-ket notation?
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Graduate How to Measure the Mapped Phase in Ramsey Interferometry
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Graduate Question about Density of states
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Graduate Conceptual question of many particle quantum systems and state vectors
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Graduate Density of states for fermions and bosons
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Graduate Translation Invariant: Seeing it Intuitively & Mathematically
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Graduate How does particle detection affect a coherent state?
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Graduate Can Resonant Transmission happen when U > E?
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Graduate First order in time=> time cannot go backwards ?
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Graduate Some Queries about Eigenvalues and vectors
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Graduate Double-slit experiment and watching the electrons
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Graduate Proof that no non-local variable can exist ?
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Graduate Is every observable the generator of a symmetry?
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Graduate How Does Infinite Freedom Affect Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Is Uncertainty intrinsic property or a consequence of measurement ?
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Graduate How to get mean occupation numbers by Grand partition function?
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Graduate Physics behind quantum computer
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Graduate Special Entanglement: Particles Reacting to Themselves
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Graduate Phase space and phase angles in a Quantum picture.
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Graduate Determining how to find the 2-d hilbert space from fusing ising anyons
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Graduate How Does Feynman Explain Reflection in Light and Time?
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Graduate Boole vs. Bell - the latest paper of De Raedt et al
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Graduate Entanglement Swapping and FTL Communication
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Graduate Some basic derivations need improvement
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Graduate Can a Photon be Vibrationally Tuned with Sound?
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Graduate Separability of vibrational and rotational motion for diatomics
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Graduate Fermionic creation and annihilation
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Graduate Unbounded Hamiltonian leading to finite ground state
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Graduate Does Bell's Theorem Disprove Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How are One-Dimensional Numbers Useful (Coupling Constants)
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