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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Why some photons are absorbed while propagating through glass
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Graduate Another double slit question - noob
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Graduate Does the Observer have anything to do with conscious choice
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Graduate Commutators; matrices? numbers? both?
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Graduate How Can Quantum Interference Control Stabilize a Frequency Comb's Carrier Phase?
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Graduate Does Cooling Radioactive Material Affect Quantum Condensate Radiation?
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Graduate Old Quantum Theory & Quantization of Action
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Graduate Nick Herbert's Proof: Quantum Non-Locality Explained
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Graduate How to get wavelength of the wave function?
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Graduate How to apply ladder operators?
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Graduate Can Tunneling Occur at 0 Kelvin with an Applied Bias?
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Undergrad Paul Krugman on Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Reason for wave-particle duality?
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Graduate A question about Dirac Delta Potential Well solution
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Graduate Can we rewrite Schrodinger equation using observable variable?
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Graduate How does one fermion change the energy of another fermion
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Graduate Proof of subadditivity of quantum entropy
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between EMR and Polarization
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Graduate In RBW there are no probabilities per se.
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Graduate Beam Splitter Physics: |45>,-|45> State Output
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Graduate Laplace's Demon: Quantum Mechanics & Determinism
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Effects: Proton vs Up Quark
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Graduate What is a current view on Nimtz (FTL) effect?
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High School Why isn't it possible to walk thru a wall?
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Graduate Error in Griffiths QM: completeness of stationary states
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Graduate Any loophole tactics to cheat locality with entanglement?
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Graduate Photon Shot Effect & Hanbury Brown Twiss Effect: Why No Correlation?
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Graduate Simultaneous measurement of entanglement
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Graduate Solving the Mystery of Unitary Time Operator in QM
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Undergrad Can this explain the double-slit experiment by a classical way?
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Graduate Quick question on Probability Current
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Graduate Intuition behind probability amplitude calculations?
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Graduate Potential energy in the Dirac equation
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Graduate How Do Entangled Particles Behave in a Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Understanding the Role of the Quantization Axis in Angular Momentum Measurements
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Graduate Understanding the Pauli Exclusion Principle
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Graduate Bose Einstein condensates and GR?
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Graduate Quantizing Bosons: Is Classical Wave Theory Compatible with Experiments?
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Graduate Do electrons (in a shell) have to be necessarily entangled?
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Graduate Momentum information from position space wave function
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Graduate How does two particles get entangled?
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Graduate Failure to make a Mach–Zehnder interferometer?
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Graduate Quantum entanglement - what attributes are entangled?
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Graduate Can Gravity Be Explained as a Composite of Electromagnetic and Strong Forces?
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Graduate Hidden-Variables: They may as well be deterministic
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Graduate What is the significance of the renormalization scale μ?
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Graduate Smallest Unit of Energy: Number & Meaning
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Graduate Explaining Fermionic Fields & Classical Coherent States
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Graduate Determinism, causality and field theory
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Graduate Total spin angular momentum meaning
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Graduate Determinism and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Limits and/or Properties of Entanglemen
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Graduate Do QED corrections strengthen or weaken hydrogen's binding energy?
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Graduate How does the quantum vacuum appear to different inertial observers?
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Graduate How Do Spin-0 and Spin-1 Propagators Differ in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Infinite Well and Boundary Conditions
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Undergrad Energy level transition questions
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Graduate Hardy's Paradox - Which Way Information
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Graduate Propagators for time-dependent Hamiltonians
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Graduate Questioning Bell's Assumption on All Local Hidden Variable Theories
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Undergrad An intuitive meaning to the phase constant k?
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Graduate PBR Paper, Calculation of Outcome Probabilities
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Graduate Is the Electromagnetic Field Omnipresent Throughout the Universe?
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Graduate Decoherence: What is a Robust Correlation
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Graduate Can Alice and Bob play FTL ping pong?
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Graduate Stuekelberg interpretetion of anti-particles
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Graduate Quantum Measurement: Collapse, Reduction, Decoherence, Weak & Strong Projection
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Graduate Solutions to Time-dependent Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Why is Theory of Quantum Gravity needed
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Graduate What is the entropy of the quantum state vacuum in inflationary theory
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Graduate Time evolution operator versus propagate
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Graduate Reproducibility of measurements in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Strong interaction and unified field theory
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Graduate Understanding the Connection between Dirac Four Spinor and Spin Up
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Graduate Subtraction point not physical mass
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Graduate Is v discrete in E=hv equation?
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Graduate Energy conservation in a vacuum bubble
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Graduate What is meant by two vectors transforming in the same way under SU(2)?
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Graduate Spin-1 rep of su(2) vs. vector transformations
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Graduate Selection of an interval affects the energy eigenstates - impossible
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Graduate Is Schrodinger's Cat Truly Both Alive and Dead Until Observed?
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Graduate Transitions on resonance with a cavity.
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Graduate Trying to make the connection with QM as a 1 parameter QFT
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Graduate Deriving the pauli matrices from general su(2) matrix
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Graduate Wave function of bonding orbital of Hydrogen molecule
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Graduate Quantum behavior in a classical system?
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Graduate Quantization of Energy in Quantum Mechanics - Real Examples?
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Graduate How does quantum tunneling enable nuclear fusion in the Sun?
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Graduate How can I learn about Bose-Einstein condensate's experimental aspects?
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Graduate Scattering matrix and correlation functions
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Graduate Mandl & Shaw QFT: Commutation Rules on Page 263
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Graduate Understanding Virtual Particles: Excitations of Quantum Fields
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Graduate Light as a wave, which wave is the correct wave?
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Graduate What Does the Diffused State of Electrons Around Nuclei Mean?
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Graduate Momentum of electromagnetic field
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Graduate Good Quantum Optics Books - Recommendations Needed
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Graduate Quntum tunneling in financial markets?
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Graduate Understanding Spin States of Particles with Spin-1 and Spin-1/2
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Graduate Boson statistics and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Why QM Needs Time-Reversibility & Unitarity Explained
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