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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Dirac eq gamma matrices question
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Graduate Schrodinger equation for close and opens system
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Really Simple to Understand for Beginners?
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Graduate Entanglement at cosmic distances possible?
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Graduate How can bosons made of fermions occupy the same quantum state?
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Undergrad Stimulated Emission: Understanding Its Changing Rate
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Graduate QM: Potential Energy & Particle Free Fall
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Graduate Problems with a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field
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Graduate Proof of vailidity of WKB approximation Please help
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High School How can a photon move something( light moves), if it doesn't have a ma
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Graduate Fourier transform of integration measure (Peskin and Schroeder)
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Graduate Splitting up of functional integral (Peskin and Schroeder)
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Graduate Understanding Virtual Particles: An Introduction to the Concept and Properties
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Graduate Double slit questions from an observation perspective
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Graduate Z-direction. Quantisation axis
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Graduate Decoherence And What happens in reality
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Graduate What causes faraday effect quantum mechanically?
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Graduate Calculating Electric Fields for H Atom Ionization with SFA
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Undergrad What exactly happens when an electron gains energy?
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Graduate Correspondence principle for a step potential
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Graduate Corralling Electrons: Wave-Particle Duality & Probability Waves
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Graduate Can SSB Be Visually Understood? Ideas for Intuitive Explanations
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Graduate Circular Interference Patterns in Multi-Slot Experiments
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Graduate Slater Determinant & Permanent
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Graduate Equilibrium bond lengths for excited molecules
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Graduate How do you quantumly entangle particles?
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Graduate What is the physical significance of having +/- a constant multiplying
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Graduate Sakurai page 27: What is this 'delta_1'?
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Graduate Commutativity of the Born Rule
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Graduate Trouble with Wick rotation in 1+1d abelian Higgs model
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Undergrad Energy Equvalant of different masses
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Graduate Understanding Electromagnetic Transitions: |ΔI|=1, ΔIz=0
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Graduate What is so 'counter-intuitive' about the double-slit experiment?
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Graduate Interaction tetween two waves soliton
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Graduate How was the Taylor expansion for SSB in superconductors done?
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Graduate Quantum Eraser Experiment: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Hydrogen Atoms and Spectral Lines
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics saying we've already existed and will again?
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Graduate Finite Potential Well Solutions
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Graduate Can an Electron Be a Frame of Reference in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Is a wave function as complete as can be
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Graduate Transmission and reflection coefficients
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Graduate Why Does the Lone Electron in Silver Have Zero Orbital Angular Momentum?
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High School Uncertainity regarding measurement
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Graduate What's the source of EM radiation
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Graduate QHO Solutions: What is Imaginary Part?
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Graduate Shouldn't the operator be applied to both the wf anD its modulus?
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Graduate Time-energy uncertainty (question after reading FAQ)
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Graduate Does Multiple Compton Scattering Occur in Laser-Electron Interactions?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Defining Dimensions
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Graduate Interesting View Of Quantum Mechanics and The Measurement Problem
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Graduate Creation and annihilation operators
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Graduate How to understand current-density operator
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Graduate Why is the Symmetry Group of the 9j Symbol Isomorphic to S_3 x S_3 x S_2?
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Undergrad In photoelectric effect mass reduce or increase ?
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Graduate Understanding Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Doublw slit experoment and fourier transform
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Graduate Harmonic Oscillator and Total Energy
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Graduate The relation between atoms' kinetic energy and the energy levels
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Graduate Bob makes a local gauge trans., can Alice undo with some fields?
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Graduate LS coupling and calculating the total angular momentum
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Graduate Zero point energy in thermal noise spectrum?
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Graduate Callen & Welton calculation of power of absorption
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Graduate Why does the integral of the Yukawa potential converge for q/alpha >= 1?
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Graduate Easy question on conformal transformations
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Graduate Time evolution of operators as projectors - confusion
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Undergrad Is the Electromagnetic Spectrum non-continuous?
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Undergrad Understanding Optical Modes Without the Jargon
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Graduate Why can't we define a time related operator?
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Graduate What Insights Do Paul Dirac's Lost 1975 Lectures Offer on Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Math suggestions for learning QM
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Graduate Help with Quantum Eraser experiments
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Graduate Unified Field Theory - Consciousness
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Undergrad Perturbation Theory for a Hamiltonian
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Graduate About the Lie algebra of our Lorentz group
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Graduate The addition of the wave functions for a system
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Graduate Unified Field Theory - Consciousness
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Graduate Space as not empty, non-locality, conceptual implications?
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Graduate Spin-1/2 Particle in Superposition B Field: Probability and Interactions
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Graduate Full Rundown of Light as a Quantum
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High School Why do all particles have a wavelength?
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Graduate Normalization of SU(N) Group Generators
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Graduate Matter vs Antimatter: Understanding the Disproportion
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Undergrad Derving compton effect formula - SIMPLY
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Graduate Eigenvalues of the position operator
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Graduate Quantum mechanical derivation of Einstein's equations
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Graduate Curved Dirac equation, Spin connection
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Graduate What Are We Really Measuring in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Quick Matrix Element Question using Hermitian Operator
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Graduate Dirac equation continuity issue
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Graduate Does the ground state wave function in QM problems have any zeros?
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Graduate Quantum Temperature Relations?
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Graduate It would take a computer bigger than the universe to solve 11 electron
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Graduate Question about H atom orbitals
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Graduate Wave Function Units: |ψ(x,t)| - Dimensionless?
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Graduate Unifying Gravity and Quantum Mechanics: The Role of Spin-2 Fields
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Introducing V-Gauge & L-Gauge: A Brief Introduction
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Graduate Intuition for symmetry currents
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Graduate Understanding Spin: What is it & How is it Measured?
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