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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

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How can scattering with interaction at all time be resolved using QFT?
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Is Feynman's interpretation of the double slit experiment universally accepted?
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Wrapping my head around holography
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Ground level energies (Particle in a box vs Harmonic Osc.)
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The uncertainity principle, a new take?
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Measuring the polariztion of a pair of entangled photons
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Question about the double-slit experiment.
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Can the result of an optical circuit depend on when you check it?
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Spin vs. Charge: Unraveling a Puzzling Relationship
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Momentum,discrete or continuous spectrum?
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What gives a proton it's charge?
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The generator of time translation
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Quantum tunnelling w/ macroscopic objects
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Double Slit - Multiple Observers
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Problem with changing basis in Hilbert space
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Faster than light subatomic spin
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Realism in the vein of EPR and Bell
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Some fundamental questions on light matter interactions
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Normalization of photon pulse. I'm confused
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Differential cross sections in Peskin & Schroeder
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What are the Origins and Properties of the Graviton?
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Is reality at quantum level just probablilistic?
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Wavefunction collapse - experimental proof?
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Propagator using Functional QFT
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Evaluate Wigner Weyl Transforms for xp+px/2
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A peculiarity in uncertainty principle
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Hermitian Operator Expectation Values
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Unruh effect and energy imparted to a detector
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Is a Planck length really the smallest length?
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What is the behavior of an electron in an asymmetric potential well?
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Understanding the Contradiction: Spin Rotation in Quantum Systems
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Do QM and Thermodynamics interact?
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Are Field Quanta Truly Real in Quantum Field Theory?
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What is the Weak Nuclear Force?
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Images of electron orbitals for H2, He, Li and Li2?
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Does a Detector Alter Diffraction Patterns in the Two-Slit Experiment?
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Quick Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Question
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Does QM itself prevent removal of noise without comparison
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How Does Gauge Theory Apply to Electrodynamics and Teleparallel Gravity?
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Parity Violation in Weak Decay
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Is Macroscopic Pilot-Wave Theory the Key to Understanding Quantum Mechanics?
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Neutron interferomerty with Protons?
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What is the title of the webpage?Do Electrons Really Orbit the Nucleus?
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What counts as an observation in QM?
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Reference for Axiomatic Quantum Statistical Mechanics
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Why photon wave function does not exist?
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Invariance of schroedinger equation
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Density matrix off-diagonal elements
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Can't understand the algebraic theory of spin.
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Shankar Questions About Quantum Mechanics (Schwarz Inequality)
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Spin angular momentum of electron
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What is the schrodinger equation?
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Do hidden variable theories reject superposition of states?
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What is the role of the path-integral formulation in quantum mechanics?
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Question about identical particles.
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What Books Continue Ballentine's Approach to Quantum Statistical Mechanics?
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Ground state of Phosphorus Problem
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Why do experiments violating Bell's inequality matter?
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Deriving Quantum Numbers from the Schrodinger Equation
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I don't undersrtand quantum mechanics and string theory
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Eigenstates of the momentum operator
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Effect of obstruction on Quantum Entanglement
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Changing the sign of 4-momenta in Feynman diagrams
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Uncovering Uncertainty: The Experimental Covariance Curve for Entangled Photons
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Where does the magnetic field in spin-orbit coupling come from?
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Angular momentum and coordinates
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How do Gaussian solutions manifest in Dirac diffusion?
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Using Wolfgang Pauli's Exclusion Principle for communication
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Energy vs. position eigenstates
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Entanglement and Bell's theorem. Is the non-locality real?
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Commutator Relation: What is [\hat{A}\hat{B}, \hat{C}\hat{D}] Equal to?
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Does Quantum Decoherence Imply Permanent Superposition for Humans?
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Question about the interference effect with two distinct sources.
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Wick's Rotation contour integration
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Mathematical misconception in scattering: switching from cartesian to spherical
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Not seeing the action of a free particle in the Path Integral Formulation
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty vs Virtual Particle Fluctuations
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Wigner distribution in phase space
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Any experiment to falsify quantum mechanics?
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Some questions on energy of orbitals
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Light scattering and thermal emission of a body
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Fourier transform as (continuous) change of basis
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Need a simple wave function explanation
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Lorentz Generators: (J and M) vs. S
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Interaction picture and s-matrix
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Calculating Residues and using Cauchy Integral Formula
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Degeneracy Parameter A: What is N, V, and k?
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Can someone who knows Quantum Mechanics tell me if this video is a good intro?
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Potential Function of Infinite Square Well - Help Needed!
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Conservation of energy during generation of entanglement
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Question about expanding a square root in powers of gradient
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A perturbation operator problem
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Expected values in infinite square well
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About propagator and poles in QFT
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Can any magnet achieve quantum levitation?
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Best book for Quantum mechanics
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Canonically conjugate operators
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Gauge invariance of stress-energy tensor for EM field
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Energy E in total per level, or per state in level?
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Difference between photon frequency and the light frequency?
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