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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Alternative model for counterfactual definiteness in Bohm-like EPR
What does the eigen equation in quantum mechanics mean physically?
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Does Multi Path Integral Formulation Violate Special Relativity?
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Poincare-representation of majorana spinor
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Compton effect vs photolectric effect
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What would be outcome of experiment?
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Questions on chapter 95 in Srednickis QFT book, Supersymmetry
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A pair of 2D harmonic oscillators at a point and Dirac eq.
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Gauge invariance of superpotential
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Electron Orbit: Exploring Kenneth W. Ford's Quantum World
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Relation between decay rate (lifetime) and spectral width
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Quantum Mechanical analogy of Newton's third law
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Question about a harmonic oscillator integral
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Photoelectric effect and light polarization in Wikipedia
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Why fundamental quantization of energy is hv?
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KP 8 Band Model: Exploring Quantum Well Structures
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Pre-requisites for path integral formulation?
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Operator in exponential function and generating function
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Massless representations of the Poincare group
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Derivation of Uncertainty Princple
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Why do photons have no rest mass and cannot have a charge?
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Difficulties in Canonical Quantization and Tensor Relations in Elementary QFT
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What Is the Schwarz-Hora Effect and Its Implications on Quantum Mechanics?
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A mental picture of entanglement?
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Do Weyl Spinors Have Well-Defined Helicities Across Different Masses?
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Normalization of Wave-Function
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Is the principal objection to decoherence thermodynamical?
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Uncertainty principle in classical mechanics boundary
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What is the Derivation of the Schrodinger Equation for Matter?
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Quantum Kinetic Theory by M. Bonitz: Traces over Commutators
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Can BECs Show Us Decoherence in "Slow Motion"?
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Quantization of Orbits: Explained
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How Are Allowed Wave Vectors Calculated in Carbon Nanotubes?
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Weak and strong interaction are attactive or repulsive force?
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Basic question on a vector superfield
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Black hole laser or condensate?
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Super-position / Duality Physically Real?
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The Significance of Decoherence in the Quantum-to-Classical Transition
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Beta Function for QED: 20/9 or 8/3?
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Understanding Counterterms: Demystifying Srednicki's Equation 9.25
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Total angular momentum of N identical bosons
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Software to calculate simple commutator relation ?
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What are Jacobi coordinates, and why are they useful?
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Fourier Transforms, Momentum and Position
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Time evolution of an entangled state
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Does Quantum Entanglement Necessitate Faster-Than-Light Communication?
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Divergent tree level Feynman diagrams?
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What operators can we measure directly?
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Quantum Foam vs Zero Point Energy
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Force Carriers, Mass, and Speed
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Reason for Fourier transform convention in QM?
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Laser Broadening: Impact on Wavelengths
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Question about scattering and emission
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Number say about the spin of a particle?
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Status of Teleportation Research?
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Yet another question about the double slits
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Wave or Particle: Unraveling the Mystery of Electrons
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The CRT and Electron Superposition
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Lorentz Transformation and Creation Operators
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Question about properties of light?
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What Defines the Weak Field Regime in the Zeeman Effect?
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Renormalizable quantum field theories
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Is the path integral well defined
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Energy of electron and its effective mass
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Time is interconnected with mass, right?
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No Permanent Dipole Moment in Two-Level System w/External Field
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Pair Production and Annihilation
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The role of complex conjugation in QM
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Einstein's 'Spooky Physics' Gets More Entangled
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Can Matter and Energy Interchangeably?
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Any benefits of uncertaintity?
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Mermin on Spooky action at a distance
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Computing P$^{\mu}$ with Stress Energy Tensor
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Geneva University speed of entanglement results
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Convergence of vacuum state of Klein Gordon field in a box
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Probability that energy level is occupied
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Questions over Quantum Physics
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Calculating Length of Closed Orbits: Gutzwiller Formula & Hamiltonian Systems"
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Expressing the Klein Gordon Hamiltonian in terms of ladder operators
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FTL communication: might QM entanglement trump relativity?
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Colapse of the Wave Funcion and the Schroedinger Equation
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Normalized function and minimum energy
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Another question about tensor derivatives
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Alternative formalization of quantum mechanics?
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Potential Energies: Same Value, Different Minima?
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Atom Stability and harmonic oscillator
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Degenerate perturbation theory question
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Validity of Mathematical Proof of Uncertainty Principle
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When is a propagator on shell?
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Generalizing entanglement: Aren't all quantum events superluminal?
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Compton effect does the electron radiate?
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What Devices and Barriers are Used in Quantum Tunneling Experiments?
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No-communication theorem question
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Buckyball Interference, classical/quantum border?
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Solving a differential equation similar to Legendre
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Angular momentum in whole numbers
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Photoelectric efffect question
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Non-Moving Photon: Are They Detectable?
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How does the quantum model justify accelerating electrons not losing energy?
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Polynomial wavefunction - basic math qu.
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Explanation of the mass and charge of the proton
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