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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate A little puzzled about superluminality
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Graduate Entanglement between particles that did not coexist (at the same time)
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Graduate Gravity as a pushing (i.e., not pulling) force?
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Graduate Questions about fundamental concepts
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Graduate Reconciling quarks and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Difference between QED & QCD Vacuum
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Graduate QFT newbie-creation of particle and anti-particle
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Graduate Simple quantum entanglement qustion
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Graduate Understanding bell's theorem: why hidden variables imply a linear relationship?
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Graduate Why are interacting states necessarily entangled?
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Graduate Why Does E/w Equal 2*L for Photons and Electrons?
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Undergrad Can we find Eigenvalues for simultaneous equation?
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Graduate Correlation function of damped harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Magnetic Resonant Imaging Mechanics
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics 100 year anniversary
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Graduate What does the word action mean in quantum physics?
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Graduate Is the Reduced Spin State of an Entangled Particle an Improper Mixture?
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Graduate Multiplication between vector and vector operator
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Graduate Need QFT Book or Online Course?
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Graduate A quantum particle which is almost at rest but whose position is rando
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Graduate Unitary spacetime translation operator
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Graduate Is tunnelling from nothing a transition?
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Graduate Field Emission from Metals: What is the Truth?
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Graduate Nature of the force between 2 protons when sharing an electron.
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Undergrad What happens to the energy of an electron after it tunnels through a barrier?
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Graduate Units of Wave Function: Joules or Vary?
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Graduate Are all divergences in quantum field theory logarithmic?
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Graduate Does a single boost change the spin orientation?
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Graduate EPR experiment with twin photons then interference experiment
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Graduate Angular momentum and orientation of electron orbit with l = 0
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Graduate Bell's Theorem with Easy Math - Stuck
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Graduate Pair Production: Clarification and Explanation
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Graduate Gross Perrywall phase transition
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Graduate Understanding QED & Probability with Feynman
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Graduate Atom when electrone is bombarded inside the nucleus
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Graduate Double-slit experiment, thought experiment
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Graduate Reverse Entanglement: Theoretical Possibilities and Energy Conservation
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Undergrad Could two past events result in the same happening?
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Graduate Is there a preferred solution among the solutions to Schrödinger's eq?
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Graduate Spherical tensor operators' commutation with lowering/raising operator
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Graduate Kraus Matrices and Unitary Matrix
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Graduate What is the difference between strong force and residual strong force?
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Graduate Which of these statements about tensor products is incorrect?
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Graduate What do we mean when we say a particle is 'observed'?
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Graduate Quantum Zeno effect for position measurement
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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator necessary DE
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Graduate Quantum Resonant Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate What can we say about Bell theorem?
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Graduate What is the Role of Fine Tuning in the Cosmological Constant Problem?
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Undergrad Energy of photons vs classical physics energy
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Graduate Creation, annihilation and motion
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Graduate Is there an analytical way to get average energy of a Fermi-Dirac gas?
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Graduate Double slit superposition vs Entanglement superposition
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Graduate Should |<A|B>|^2 always be interpreted as probability?
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Graduate Third Loophole Against Entanglement Eliminated
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Graduate Proving Completeness Relation for Box Normalization
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Graduate The difference between the packet length and the cohererence length
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Graduate What happens after Compton scattering event?
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Graduate Infinities and short distances in QFT
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Graduate Calculating Correlation of Composite Operators
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Graduate Relation between actual measurement and Mathematical observables
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Graduate Can the 'mass' of bound states show up full propagator?
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Graduate Scholarpedia article on Bell's Theorem
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Graduate Double-slit quantum eraser: measured patterns on screen
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Graduate How to determine quantum numbers for beta functions?
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Graduate Uncertainty Principal: Limit of measurement, or the nature of things
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Graduate Causation between states or only between measurements?
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Graduate Can Nature take exact random samples?
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Graduate Schroedinger's Apple: A Quantum Flux Dessert
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Graduate Entanglement swapping - any correlation between previous partners?
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Graduate Why there is parity Symmetry ?
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Graduate Understanding the Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE)
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Undergrad Why we find expectation value?
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Graduate Optoelectronics: Dark current caused by Quantum fluctuations?
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Graduate What it means the theory violates unitarity
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Graduate Does an observable have to be represented by a self-adjoint operator?
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Graduate What is meant by being driven by quantum fluctuations in QPTs
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Uncertainty Principles & Superposition
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Graduate The Schmidt Decomposition: Looking for some intuition
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Graduate Blackbody radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
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Undergrad Magnetic Quantum Number Explained: Limits and Importance in Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Explain the Fuzziness in Light Reflection?
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Graduate Product rule of derivative of expectation values
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Graduate Can the Two Slit Experiment Be Conducted Without Observer Influence?
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Graduate Question About State Collapse and Energy Measurements in Infinite Well
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Graduate Interaction of e.m radiation: from classical to quantum behavior
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Graduate Derivative of Lagrangian with respect to momentum
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Graduate Photons Impact on the Visual Process
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Graduate Heaviside Step Potential - Tunneling
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Graduate Does the Ward identity rescue a zero photon mass?
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Graduate What is ↔ mean? in commutation relation?
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Graduate Self energy logarithmic divergence due to chiral symmetry.
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Graduate Why the magnetic moment is zero for occupied levels?
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Graduate Blackbody radiation - quantum to classical
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Graduate Why is the fine structure constant what it is?
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Graduate Why does dimensional regularization respect the Ward identity?
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Graduate Spacetime displacement operator in QFT
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Graduate Creation Operators application
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Graduate Photon behavior after the polarizer
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory application ideas?
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