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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

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Must we add QED correction to perturbative QCD?
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Additional understanding needed on proof involving Hermitian conjugates
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Is Faster-Than-Light Motion Possible According to E=mc^2?
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Angular momentum in bracket notation
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Change of Basis: Converting Wavefunction from S_z to S_x
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Are Coherent Superposition Particles Considered Conservative Systems?
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Intuitive Expl. of Gaussian Wave Packets & $\Delta x \Delta p = \frac{\hbar}{2}$
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Electron & Neutron Absorbing Photons: Charge Explained
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Anyone familiar with Srednicki ch72?
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How is momentum conserved when a particle/antiparticle pair is created?
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Electromagnetic field( though could be any field) produced by a quantum particle
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Local superdeterministic hidden variables - in Physical Review Letters
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To find the linear momentum of a function
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Exploring Non-Local Dynamics in Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime Manifold
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Massless Particles from Massive Theory: Understanding the m->0 Limit
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Questions about rigid rotating dumbbell molecule
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How long does it take an electric dipole to emit a photon?
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Quantum Entanglement and Useful Information
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Neutrinos faster than light speed? What do you guys think?
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Born oppenheimer approximation vs adiabatic approximation
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Interference between the particles
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Dirac Delta from Continous Eigenfunctions
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Action-at-a-distance in Sideways EPR-Bell?
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Why the renormalization group flow depends only the basic symmetry,but not Lagrangian
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Energy from schrödinger equation
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Dipole approximation in acceleration form
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Can Single Photon Measurements Reveal Quantum Interference or Particle Behavior?
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WOW [Possible] Non-local neutrinos at CERN
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X-ray diffraction in the presence of electric potential
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Trying to understand Schrodinger's Equation
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Explaining Intermolecular Forces at the Quantum Level
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Charged particle and virtual photons
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Could High Energy Virtual Particles Destroy a Starship?
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Bell's Inequality: Must we ditch locality, realism or something else?
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Outer product in Hilbert space
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Don't bite my head off here right away, I'm only a high school
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Exploring the Destructive Interference of Probability Waves in Quantum Mechanics
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Understand Atoms: Get Answers to Your Questions
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How to represent operator in matrix form
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What Are the Best Conceptual Resources for Understanding Quantum Field Theory?
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Why does a photon emit discrete frequencies of light?
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Double Slit Experiment With Detectors
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Special conditions of a wavefunction?
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Understanding Ehrenfest Theorem & Its Implications in QM
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How Does a Harmonic Oscillator Behave When Traveling at Constant Velocity?
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Is there a connection between a particle's momentum and kinetic energy?
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How can the uncertainty principle and relativity coexist?
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Can Gravitons Convey Information Faster Than Light?
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Equivalent Expressions: Solve Energy Spectrum Transcendental Equation
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Entanglement Between Different Types of Particles?
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Logic gates in excitonic single quantum dot qubits
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A particular representation of gamma matrices
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The Flash quantum tunneling vibration problem.
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Virtual Particles and Hawking radiation
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How Does the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Allow Specific State Transitions?
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Why are plane waves not possible representations of states in quantum theory?
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Infinite Well Problem - Time Independent Schrodinger's Equation
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Hi Folks,I am currently reading Brian Greene's 'The Fabric of the
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Quantum mechanics and expectation values.
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Schrödinger's cat, no superposition
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Path Integral in first and second quantization
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Lie Derivative and acceleration
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When does quantum mechanics turn into Newtonian mechanics?
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Is Entanglement related to Gravitational Fields?
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What is application of nonlinear sigma model?
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What is the Meaning of Hilbert Space?
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How do I move from QM to QFT and beyond?
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Orthogonal Eigenfunctions (Landau Lifshitz)
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How Does Quantum Indeterminacy Relate to the Uncertainty Principle?
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Is there such thing as an anti-photon?
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Quantum Mecanics unifing with General Relativity in 5D
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How did Niels Bohr obtain ΔT •ΔE > h?
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Why/how does energy change when measuring position?
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What is Planck's Quantization of Energy?
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New quantum energy storage proposed
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Relative intensities of Zeeman components
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Trace of higher powers of Density Matrix
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Quantum Teleportation of 3D objects
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Adjoint of a Bra-Ket: Definition & Derivation
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Very Basic questions on bra-ket notation
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Question about momentum space fourier transform
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Is the unitary operator unique?
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Experimental Verifications of the UPs?
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Time-independent Schrodinger Equation
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Why dimensionless coupling in nonlinear sigma model corresponding to temperature?
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Dirac Gamma matrices in the (-+++) metric
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Proca Lagrangian (Math troubles with four vectors)
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Quantum Entanglement and the Big Bang
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Is the Hawking vs. Sussking debate still unresolved?
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Wave-Particle Duality: Is Matter Both?
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Quantum Transmission Coefficient
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Going from system & observable to hilbert space & operator?
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Continuous Absorption of Energy by Chlorophyl
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Quantum Entanglement - Equal Energy?
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How to Distinguish Pure and Mixed States in Quantum Mechanics?
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Does QM ever violate classical probability theory?
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Quantum Numbers for Electron Spin
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Why are some chemicals more reactive?
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Chain rule for commutator (Lie derivative)?
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Expansion of a wave fuction in energy eigenfunctions
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