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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Graduate How to understand the standard momentum introduced in Weinberg's QFT
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High School Double Slit Experiment: Home Reproduction Guide
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Graduate Why does Klein-Gordon's equation not obey quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What does Quantum entanglement tell about Causality?
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Graduate What are the units for spectral energy density according to the Planck Law?
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Graduate Does New Research Disprove Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
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Graduate QM & CTCs: Examining the Possibility of Closed Time-Like Curves
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Graduate Experimental violation of HUP in its original form
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Graduate 2 scientists think they have defeated the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Question about quantum physics and possible shortcomings
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Undergrad Question with electromagnetic radiation
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Graduate Fermion Anticommutation Relations (nightmare)
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Graduate Help Where can I start if I want to learn Quantum Spin Hall Effect?
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Graduate Rationale of the position operator?
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Graduate Time development of a Gaussian integral help
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High School Normalizing Functions: Basics & Examples
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Graduate Wave function of a flame or fire
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Graduate Wave Function Collapse: Quantum Mechanics by Griffith
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Graduate Ehrenfest Theorem - Does Classical Mechanics Need Big Particles?
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Graduate Can wave particle duality be viewed at macroscopic scale ?
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Graduate What happens when we insert detectors in a delayed choice experiment?
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Graduate Sakurai 1st edition vs. Sakurai 2nd edition?
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Graduate What is the speed of light doing in the spin half hamiltonian?
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Graduate Who is puzzled by the delayed choice?
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Graduate Lorentz invariance of [itex] E_p \delta ({\bf p}- {\bf q}) [/itex]
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Graduate Model of the universe/quantum computing
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Graduate Confusion about Wave / Particle Behaviour of X-Rays
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Graduate Quantum vacuum plasma thruster
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Graduate Question about uncertainty principle
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Graduate Radiation from a continually-accelerating electron
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Graduate Quarter Wave Plate: 45 & 135 Degree Polarization Output
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Graduate Entanglement, classical correlation, and questions about superluminal signalling
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Graduate Unitary equivalence of QM (not for energy?)
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Graduate Problem with the two-slit experiment
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Graduate Simultaneously Measuring Entangled Particles
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Graduate Can the future affect the past
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Graduate A very basic question about the the origin of quantum levels
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Undergrad Simplified spacetime and Emc2 vs Quantum Theory
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: The Spooky Connection Between Particles
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Graduate Conformal Invariance Klein Gordon Action
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Undergrad Reason a Dineutron is not bound?
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Undergrad How Big is a Photon and What are its Dimensions?
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Graduate Quantam Vacuum - Strong Electric fields.
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Graduate Distinction between real and virtual photon
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Graduate What causes a particle to change directions
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Graduate Semester Project concerning Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Proving HO Eigenvalues Using Ladder Operators
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Graduate How Long Does a Photon Retain Its Spin After Dis-Entanglement?
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Graduate Eigenvalue of position operator and delta function.
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Graduate How can we know initial state of a particle
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Graduate Spin statistic terms in absorption cross section
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Graduate What Happens When an Electron Enters an Infinite Square Well?
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Need recommendation for good popular science book on QM
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Graduate A night with the stars (Brian Cox on telly)
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Graduate Solving Complex Number Equations
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Graduate Is the unpredictability of clouds due to QM uncertainty?
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Graduate Is SPIN a calculated or physically measureable characteristic?
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Graduate Deriving the Propagator: Understanding Zee's Book and the Fourier Transform
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Graduate Why is a time-dependent Hamiltonian different in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Two-fermion system wave function
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Graduate Verifying Eigen Solutions for H2 Molecule
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Graduate A double double split experiment?
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Graduate Can double slit interference be explained by the influence of previous photons?
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Graduate Quantum eraser and super luminous communication
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Graduate Double Slit Experiment: Interference Patterns & Worldlines
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Graduate Why is coherence and entanglement complementary?
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Graduate Deriving the Total Energy from Blackbody Radiation: A Mathematical Approach
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Graduate Does Relativity Affect Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Did the particle deflect due to the change in B field to an E field in my frame?
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Graduate Calculate Casimir force between several plates
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Graduate Understanding the Composition Rule and Transformation Law in Weinberg's QFT
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Graduate How can angular momentum be quantized?
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Graduate Time Dilation in QM: Elevator Experiment
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Graduate General Question About Path Integral Formulation of QM
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Graduate Quantum Particle - Spread Throughout the Universe
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Graduate Secound Quantization: Definition, Meaning & Wavefunction ψ
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Graduate Understanding Bra-Ket Notation and the Spin-Statistics Theorem
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Graduate Is Work Done During Adiabatic Compression of a Quantum State?
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Graduate What is the Correct Value of the Square of a Momentum Operator?
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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum in field theory: imposed, or emergent?
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Graduate Double slit experiment violates triangle inequality?
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Graduate Why an atom can have nonzero toal angular momentum in the ground state?
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Graduate Quantum mechanics and indeterminism essay help
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Graduate Is this person right about particle wave duality?
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Graduate Quantum Telecommunication for dummies (me)
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Graduate How does the amplitude on a EM wave graph correspond to the number of photons?
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Graduate Where are Heisenberg's Lost Notes?
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Graduate Could Quantum Jumps Occur Through Hidden Dimensions?
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Graduate Does [H,P]=0 imply no scattering in field theory?
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Graduate What's the meaning of the commutator? Not satisfied with usual answer
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Graduate Do commutators hold in interacting theory?
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Undergrad How Schro discovered his equation
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Graduate Why does the which path information collapse the wave function?
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Graduate When Electricity Takes the Shortest Path, is that Due to Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Why Does the Green Curve Have Higher Probability at the Left of the Barrier?
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Graduate What does a Bell measurement mean in quantum teleportation?
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Undergrad L=0 State: Understanding Angular Momentum and Orbital Movement
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Graduate How does potential act as a boundary for electrons in infinite well
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Graduate Weyl spinor notation co/contravariant and un/dotted
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