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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Are space and time really quantized?
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Graduate Is the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb problem based on incorrect assumptions?
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Graduate Construction of Hamiltonian from Casimir operators
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Undergrad Probability and Areas Around Atomic Nuclei
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Graduate 'Quantum Magic' Without Any 'Spooky Action at a Distance'
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Graduate Can/do relativistic effects explain select quantum phenomena
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Graduate What exactly is electron spin?
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Graduate What happens when a photon meets a virtual photon of the same wavelength?
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Graduate WHY stationary things START falling: an informal 'quantum' gravity suggestion
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Graduate Proving the Pauli Matrices Solution for a Given Relation | Help Needed
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Graduate Derivation of creation and annihilation operator commutation relations
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Graduate Do photons interact with neutrons?
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Graduate State space, beginner's question
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Graduate How do you explkain the difference of labels and dynamical variable?
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Graduate No non-locality after all in QM?
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Undergrad Some simple? questions on miscellaneous things?
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Graduate What is the Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Which properties of the quantum are random?
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Graduate Coupling Using Theta as a Boundary
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Graduate Stationary States: Differential Equations Issues
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Graduate Communication systems and entanglement
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Graduate Do planck frequency photons form near black holes?
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Undergrad Quanta/s vs Einstein/s. what is the difference?
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Graduate Are the Lagrangians in Mandl & Shaw 5.1 Equivalent Without Lorentz Gauge?
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Graduate Proof: Operators with same expectation value
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Graduate Question about wave function collapse
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Graduate Understanding 1. single photon and 2. entanglement states
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Graduate Other (wave) state still there after collapse?
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Undergrad Thermal Radiation v Absorption of Light
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Graduate Single photon interference time threshold (double slit experiment)
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Graduate Observers and Measuring Devices
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Graduate The pattern is not just both slits?
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Graduate Do we have any proof of entanglement other than bells inequalities?
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Graduate On the myth that probability depends on knowledge
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Graduate Where can I find English translations of seminal quantum physics papers?
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Graduate How does Quantum Physics explain light?
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Graduate Question on shifting field gradients by an angle
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Graduate Dirac Notation and completeness relation
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Graduate Temporal Superposition and the Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Splitting a single light source into two out-of-phase sources?
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Undergrad Photons transmitted through transparent substances.
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Graduate Otimes notation and tau matrices used in definition of gamma matrices?
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Graduate Four fundamental forces. Which one is this?
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Graduate Is Faster-Than-Light Travel Possible Through Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Can We Predict the Nature of Virtual Particles Created in Quantum Events?
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Graduate Rigorous Feynman pathintegral derivation
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Graduate Collapse of the wave-function of a single photon in the general sense
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Graduate Unbounded operators in non-relativistic QM of one spin-0 particle
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Graduate DCQE - how does/can the pattern change?
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Graduate Maximal set of commuting observables
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Graduate Energy and momentum operators in QM
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Graduate The Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian
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Graduate Interference Pattern in Cascaded Experiments
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Graduate Quantum Tunnelling Technologies
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Graduate Relativistic Momentum Operator
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Graduate Understanding Hadamard Gates on Quantum Circuits
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Graduate Derivation of Rayleigh–Jeans law
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Graduate Is entanglement effected by space-time?
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Graduate Wigner-Eckart Theorem: Rigorous Math Treatment
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Graduate Does Space Possess Mass Through Virtual Particles?
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Graduate How to explain the smallness of mass while the mass parameter diverge rapidly in ?
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Undergrad Difference between Compton effect and Photoelectric effect
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Graduate Photons and Bose Einstein statistics
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation in momentum space? ?
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Graduate Do weak measurement prove randomness is not inherent?
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Graduate Double-Slit Question: Electron Observation & Wavefunction Collapse
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Graduate Is coherence restored after erasure of which-way info?
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Graduate Explaining DCQE - via coherence in layman terms
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Graduate Angular momentum theory problem probably wrong sign
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Graduate Understanding which-way patterns in DCQE
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Graduate Amateur question about QED and the modern understanding of light
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Graduate FTL via entanglement- paper discussing similar
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Graduate Fourier transform of scattering hamiltonian
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Graduate What Are the Common Misconceptions About Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Why must A2 be zero in Schaum's Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How to Prove Momentum Operator is Hermite Operator?
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Graduate Delayed choice quantum eraser – Yoon Vs Walborn experiment/paper
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Graduate Is FTL Communication Possible Through Quantum Entanglement?
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Graduate Is Qualia Intrinsically Linked to Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate What Happens When Two Up-Up Fermions Collide?
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Graduate Degenerate perturbation theory help
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High School Charge & Mass: The Connection of Electrons, Protons & Neutrons
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Graduate Renormalisation group transformation- Peskin
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Graduate Four vector made of Pauli matrices commute?
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Graduate How is observer defined in context to quantum physics?does it have
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Graduate Proving that an operator is not Hermitian
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Graduate Yet another double slit thread.
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Graduate Pictures of electron etc orbits
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Graduate EPR Experiments in QFT: Entangled Fermions & Time's Absoluteness
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Graduate No-cloning theorem and time travel
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Graduate Are quantum field only calculation tools?
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Graduate Uncertainty principle and Einstein's thought experiments
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Graduate And yet another double slit question thread.
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Graduate Ghost Imaging - FLT, what is missing here?
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Graduate What are the matter wave polarization parameters?
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Graduate Remote-Sensing Quantum Hyperspace by Entangled Photon Interferometry
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Graduate Could Black Holes Actually Be Wormholes Into Other Universes?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement - properties
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Graduate Possible cause of the Uncertainty effect on leptons
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Graduate QED: Force of a Vacuum Explained
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