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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Mechanism behind photon absorption and photon emission
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Graduate Why Do Only Certain Equal Time Contractions in Quantum Field Theory Not Vanish?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Observables
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Graduate Why are entangled states generic?
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Graduate Wave function is a combination of eigenfunction?
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Graduate What state does a particle take on when we measure its momentum?
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Graduate Troubleshooting Mandl & Shaw QFT: Deriving eqn (9.94) on pg 192 of 2nd edition
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Monte Carlo Methods: Clearing up Doubts on Their Use
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Graduate Analyzing high temperatures using the M-B distribution and
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Graduate Conservation of momentum of single photon passing a slit
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Graduate DCQE Question on Purpose of Glan Thompson Prisms
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Graduate Can someone prove the uncertainty principle for me
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Graduate Reflectionless Potential Eigentates
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Graduate The variation of a scalar field (from Ryder's QFT book)
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Graduate We know that superposition principle is valid in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Refraction and its connection quantum gravity
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Graduate Is Conservation of Momentum Overlooked in Bells Inequality Violations
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Graduate Is Quantum World weird because we can 'see' higher dimensions?
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Graduate Is there an error in the Feynman rules for QFT in the Mandl & Shaw book?
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Graduate How Does Total Spin Quantum Number Affect Symmetry in a Two-Fermion System?
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Graduate Seeking a non-technical book on the weirdness of QM
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Graduate Preferred basis in Relational Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What's fundamental for quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Lamb and The Photoelectric Effect Without Photons
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Graduate Information loss in polarization.
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Graduate Bells' Inequality Spin Violations
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Graduate What is meant by spin actually?
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Graduate Where are charge and spin in Schrodinger's equation?
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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between H^DaggerH and Dual Spaces
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Graduate Is H^DaggerH invariant under rotations and translations?
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Graduate Solving Hartree Fock Iteration for Closed Shell Atoms with GTO Basis
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Graduate Do quantum fields vanish at infinity?
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Graduate I don't see what's weird about the double slit experiment
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Graduate How can I find the S_{x} operator using spin base transformation?
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Graduate Hamiltonian matrix and eigenvalues
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Graduate What Are the Selection Rules for the Hydrogen Atom in LS Coupling?
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Graduate Why is this invariant under U(1) X SU(2) ?
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Graduate The end all be all of the planck scale
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Graduate Do Bell and PBR together point toward nonlocal reality?
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Graduate Higgs potential and fluctuations about the vacuum
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Graduate Can quantum mechanics predict the likelihood of chemical reactions in mixtures?
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Graduate Schrödinger cat´s from Rovelli Relational Quantum Mechanics viewpoint
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Graduate Wave-particle duality in the Standard Model
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Undergrad Particle-Wave Duality of Elementary Particles
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Graduate Quantum Communication, ion traps of thermoluminescent materials
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Graduate Can small changes in fundamental constants affect the properties of water?
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Graduate Is Planck Time and Length the Smallest Possible Units of Measurement?
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Graduate One-particle system with phase transition?
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Graduate What Is a Quantum Jump and How Does It Work?
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Graduate The existence of point particles and an infinite universe
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Graduate May decoherence be reversible?
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Graduate The Double Slit Experiment & its Connection to Pseudoscience
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Graduate Relationship between vertex function and current
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Graduate Negative kinetic energy in Bose Hubbard mode?
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Undergrad Why Does Light Slow Down in Glass?
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Graduate Functional or regular (partial) taylor series in Field theory
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Graduate Blackbody radiation and Planck constant questions
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Graduate Why do we call the psi function the wave' function
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Graduate What does position entangled mean?
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Graduate Radiation in photoelectric effect.
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Graduate Local Conservation Of Charge And Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate QM Inverse Problem: Finding V(x)
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Graduate Understanding QFT's Operators and Fock Space: Demystifying Quantum Superposition
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Graduate Understanding wave particle duality
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Graduate Question about Entanglement and Measurement
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Graduate Why do objects always move to a state of lower potential energy?
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Graduate What do waves represent in QM?
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Graduate How Does the Pauli-Lujanski Tensor Relate to Gauge Invariance?
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Graduate Have the planck scales been proven to be true?
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Graduate How Does Photon Spin Relate to Quantum Mechanics and Bell's Inequalities?
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High School Heisenberg uncertainty for noob
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Graduate What is the role of zeta in atomic shells and its connection to quantum physics?
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Graduate What is the significance of Planck Length in understanding the fabric of space?
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Graduate Schrodinger's Cat and looking in the box.
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Graduate Time until spontaneous emission in a QHO
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Graduate Does quantum field fills every single piece of the universe?
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Graduate Incomplete collapse of wavefunction
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Graduate Why should the quantum number m be less than equal to l.
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Graduate Physical quantities versus wave function?
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Graduate Algebra & Physics: Same Dynamical Variables & Lie Algebra?
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Graduate Bosons: What Do They Do and How Do They Act?
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Graduate Wave Particle Duality: Masses & Light Speed
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Double & Single Slit Experiments
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Graduate I am very intrigued by the theory of quantum physics
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Graduate Is Quantum Brownian Motion Linked to Virtual Particle Frequencies?
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Graduate How does quantum computing work?
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Graduate Why is (1/2,1/2) the vector representation?
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Graduate Error in perturbation series question
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Graduate Density and massive particles with 0 size
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Graduate Why is there a small variation in the spectrum of the same element?
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Graduate Where is a Photon? Understanding Light and Momentum
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Undergrad Ionization Energy QNS - Get Help Now!
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Graduate What is the frequency spectrum for a single photon?
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Graduate The meaning of double slit experiment
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Graduate QM: Clarifying Pauli Exclusion Principle, State of System
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Graduate Condition for completeness of eigen vectors of an operator
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Graduate Running Coupling: QF Theory, Asymptotic Freedom & RG Law
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Graduate Why do we need complex numbers while normalizing the wave function?
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Graduate Are There Only 4 Bell States According to Wikipedia's Definition?
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Graduate Action a distance, collapse and relativity
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