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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate What is the physical interpretation of eigenvalues in H?
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Graduate Double-slit experiment with photons vs electrons
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Graduate What is the impact of nonperturbative effects on time-dependent quantum theory?
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Graduate Initial condition for Schrödinger equation
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Graduate Srednicki Ch5 creation operator time dependence
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Graduate Pure to mixed and back to pure state
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Graduate I really need a resource to explain the linear potential well to me
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Graduate Can the energy flux of an EM wave be represented by a single photon?
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Graduate Critique of the quantum suicide experiment
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Graduate Do quantum fluctuations come from nothing ?
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Graduate A question on basics of statistical mechanics
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Graduate What role does quantum entanglement play in quantum computers?
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Graduate Understanding a wikipedia article on quantum coordination games
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Graduate Solving Projection Operator Questions - QM Basics
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Graduate Time Symmetric Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Time Ordering Operator: Integrals & Step Function
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Undergrad How to set up a double slit experiment?
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Graduate Why is there no help: momentum expectation value 2D particle in a box
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Undergrad Wavefunction of Two Particles: Intuitive Explanation
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Graduate Why does the wave function have to collapse upon measurement?
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Graduate Eigenstate of energy but not angular momentum?
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Graduate Creation and anihillation operators
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Graduate Do intramolecular bonds vibrate in solids ?
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Graduate What Happens to Bob's Measurement in an EPR Experiment?
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Graduate Understanding Mean Field Theory for Hamiltonians for Beginners
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Graduate Silly thermodynamics and quantum mechanics questions
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Graduate Electromagnetic radiation and perturbation
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Graduate Radial Probability Distribution Curve for Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate Photon Size: Uncertainty Principle & QM Explained
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Graduate Does Time Slow Down at the Quantum Level as We Get Smaller?
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Graduate Understanding Probability Amplitude, State Operators and Galilei Group
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Graduate Can someone explain the behavior of particles in the double slit experiment?
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Undergrad What does the definition the energy is not continuous mean?
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Graduate Converting Information to Energy: Japanese Physicists Show It Can Be Done
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Graduate Beam Splitter - Commutation relations
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement vs Space Time
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Graduate Are quantum no-go theorems overrated/potentially counterproductive?
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Graduate Understanding Mass and Vectors in Quantum Mechanics: The Role of the Higgs Field
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Graduate Probability density and acceleration
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Undergrad What is the dimensional formula for Planck's constant?
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Undergrad Emission spectrum wavelengths.
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Graduate Simultaneous measurement of noncommuting observables
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator: Let a+,a- be the Ladder Operators
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Graduate What is the v(p) polynomial in radial wave function
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Graduate Quantum field theory basic concepts
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Graduate Is Phi^3 Theory in Five Dimensions Supposed to Be Finite?
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Undergrad If i have a=exp x, and i know that my uncertainty in a is 3% ( at all
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Graduate Quantum Causality: Investigating Uncaused Events
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Graduate Questions about the Double Slit Experiment
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Undergrad Why are photons released when electron jump states?
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Graduate Operators with commutator ihbar
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Graduate Self-dual and Anti Self-dual antisymmetric tensor
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Graduate Ball throwing model and some questions about QED
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Graduate Is True Randomness a Fundamental Aspect of the Universe?
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Graduate Fourier Transform, and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Is the Connection Between Energy and Time Overlooked in Physics?
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Graduate Did the Goudsmit-Uhlenbeck analysis of spin consider relativity?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Multiple Scattering in Double Well Systems
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Graduate The angular momentum operator acting on a wave function
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Graduate How Can A.K. Ramanujan's Mathematics Enhance Understanding of Modern Physics?
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Graduate What is Schwinger terms and what is the origin?
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Graduate Do Hamiltonians Fully Represent All Observables in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty and vacuum fluctuations
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Graduate Second Quantization: Single Particle Basis States
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Graduate Can you explain the fugacity of boson gas in Bose-Einstein Condensation?
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Graduate Proof that a Dirac particle has spin 1/2?
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Graduate Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Unknown Expression
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Graduate Representing Operators as Matrices and Differential Operators
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Graduate Particle Number Operator (Hermitian?)
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Graduate Quantum measurement: first kind vs non-demolition
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Graduate Preservation of Poisson Bracket Structure upon quantization?
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Graduate Where Can I Find Resources on Bogoliubov Transformations for Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate C Modulated Slit: Can Light Pass Through?
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Graduate Trying to calcualte the uncertainty
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Graduate Which axis does flux pinngin work on?
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Graduate Quantum Universe everything that can happen does happen
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Graduate Angular momentum of identical particles
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Graduate Gauge invariance and conserved current in SU(N)
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Graduate Is the wave function real or abstract statistics?
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty - ΔλΔx
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Graduate Uncertainity and Mass teleporting
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Graduate New article about after life and Quantum physics
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Graduate Questions about Muonic Hydrogen: Binding Energy, Rydberg Formulas & Momentum
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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillator, creation & annihilation operators?
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Graduate Feynman Hellman Theorem: dependence of E on [itex]\ell[/itex] Hydrogen
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Graduate How do I express p1 |v1> + p2 |v2> for a mixture, not a pure state?
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Graduate DLCZ protocol - what does the beamsplitter do?
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Graduate How can an electron in a steady-state have a non-zero speed?
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Graduate Isolating Quarks - Understanding the Logic
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Graduate Why does Planck's Law have different peaks?
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Graduate Bound state of finite square well, why do we make this statement?
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Graduate Does Potential in Quantum Mechanics Only Refer to Electrical Potentials?
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Graduate Could someone clear up the paper on casimir effect
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Graduate What Happens to Spin in 2+1 Dimensions and Beyond?
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Graduate Eigen value of total angular momentum
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Top 10 physicists in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate How did the variable change in the Dirac-Delta function property equation?
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Graduate Planck's Constant/Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Explicit form of scalar propagator
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Graduate 1/2 spin particle in a norm-constant magnetic field
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