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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate The HUP, simultaneous measurements, and eigenfunctions
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Graduate Fermi Distribution Explained: Energy Levels in Metals
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Graduate Where does non-locality originate in dBB theory?
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Graduate Lightspeed and entanglement 'phone' question
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Graduate Partial trace of the density matrix
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Graduate 'Toy' universe complying with Bell experiments
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Graduate Atomic electric field an issue
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Graduate Is There an Anti-Universe and Do Antimatter Particles Effect Themselves?
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Graduate Observation time and its relation to the quantum Zeno effect
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Graduate Russian Roulette and schrodinger's cat
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Graduate Two level system Schrodinger Equation problem
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Graduate Is Inertia Explained by the Higgs Mechanism?
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Graduate Bound states in propagator
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Before Classical Mechanics: Implications and Speculations
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Graduate When does a wavefunction inherit the symmetries of the hamiltonian?
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Graduate Does first order QED matrix elements vanish?
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Graduate Normalization to delta distribution
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Graduate What Determines the Barrier Field in Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling?
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Graduate Normalisation of quantum states
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Graduate Why Does Bra-Ket Notation Assume Linearity in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Find Complex Conjugate of u_j in Adjoint of Equation
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Graduate Understanding the Derivation of E=hf and its Significance in Quantum Physics
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Graduate What is the purpose of the Schrodinger wave equation in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate The arguments against macroscopic quantum states are
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Graduate Electron and graviton degrees of freedom
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Graduate Square root of volume in fourier expansion of the vector potential
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Graduate Difference between active and passive transformations.
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Graduate Does QED reproduce classical electrodynamics? How?
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Graduate Understanding the 2012 Noble prize in QM
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High School Heisenberg's uncertainity princple
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Graduate Cyclic permutation and operators
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Graduate Number of bound states and index theorems in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Free Hamiltonian problem for relativistic mechanics
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Graduate Jost Matrix: Find the Best Book to Learn about It
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Graduate Proving Hermitian Operators: (A+B)^n Remains Hermitian | Step-by-Step Guide
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Graduate Measuring energy and then momentum
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Graduate Can Magnetic Attraction Between Electrons Overcome Electrical Repulsion?
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Graduate What are the properties of time in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate More detailed explanation of photoelectric effect ?
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Graduate Is sixfold degeneracy the maximum degeneracy an angular momentum can have?
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Graduate Is information lost if a particle is annhilated by it's antiparticle
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Graduate Understanding Spin in Quantum Mechanics: What Does Measuring Along an Axis Mean?
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Graduate Symmetries and Spin orbit interaction
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Graduate Quantum physics vs classical physics
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Graduate Black holes, universe boundaries and geometry
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Graduate What Are the Limitations and Possibilities of Measuring Time?
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Graduate Prove Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for Ground State Harmonic Oscillator
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Graduate What does the operator C^3 represent in Bra-ket notation?
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Graduate Immortality and Schrodinnger's Cat
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Graduate Lagrangian visualisation and Uncertainty Principle
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Graduate Proof of Baker-Hausdorff Lemma - Find Online for Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Correlation functions vs. Scattering Amplitude
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Graduate Is the Photon's Mass Really Zero?
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Graduate QM: measurement vs interaction
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Graduate Explanation of a failed approach to relativize Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Perturbation theory infinite well
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Graduate Is there a universal relationship between momentum and wave vector?
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Graduate 'Advantages' of Quantum Encryption
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Graduate Feynman Path Integral - All Possible Paths - Relativity Conflict?
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Graduate Help understanding position operator eigenfunction derivation
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Graduate Understanding Phase & Group Velocities in Different Contexts
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Graduate Can an even number of Fermions be a Bosonic system?
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Graduate Calculation of the Pontryagin index
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Graduate Experimental evidence for the ground state of energy
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Graduate Why is it impossible to teleport quantum states?
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Graduate Young's Double Slit Experiment with Single Photon Counters and Offset Mask
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Graduate Momentum Eigenfunctions and Definite Momentum
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Graduate Time partial derivative of a wave function
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Graduate Qualitative description of photon from faraway star
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Graduate Dirac equation for proton/neutron
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Graduate Quantum Correlations with no Causal Order
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Graduate A cat, an electron, and a metaphysician walk into a bar
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Graduate Entanglement after the photons no longer exist
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Graduate Is the Planck length relative?
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Graduate So what does a single photon do to a group of charged particles?
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Graduate Integrating the Expectation Value
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Graduate Understanding Unpolarized Spin States in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Probabilistic breakdown of quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Help me understand wave equation ?
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Graduate Parity Exchanges Right & Left-Handed Spinors: Q&A from Page 94 of Tong's QFT
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Graduate Bloch Oscillation in 1D crystal Lattice
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Graduate Proving Eigenstate Energy: Multiply ψ(x) by Hamiltonian Operator for e-ikx
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Graduate Help understanding this Lie Algebra/Group stuff
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Graduate Origin of the schroedinger's wave equation
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Graduate I must be doing something wrong ?
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Graduate Why do wavefunctions sometimes combine?
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Graduate What Are Negative Energies in System ψ?
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Graduate Is the vacuum state's energy affected by the size of the box?
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Graduate Solving the general Schodinger equation
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Graduate Expanding Higgs Field: Where Does Energy Come From?
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Graduate What Determines the Direction of a Dipole Operator in Quantum Optics?
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Graduate How does quantum mechanics explain the big bang? Infinite realities?
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Graduate On the meaning of indeterminism of Quantum Theory
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Graduate Boson Statistics: Why Does the Rule Fail?
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Graduate Unitary operator + Lorents transformations (question from Peskin)
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Graduate Michio Kaku's teleportation device
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Graduate Charge as a coefficient of the Lie algebra?
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Graduate How do I expand gamma matrices without adding a unity matrix?
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Graduate Problem understanding Green's function equality in Messiah QM II
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Graduate Quantum Tunneling Probability for a rectangular barrier
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