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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Introductory books on quantum mechanics
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Graduate Dirac's Coupling to an electromagnetic field and schroedingers
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Graduate Dot product of two pauli matrices
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Graduate Why Do Photons Follow a Sine Wave Pattern Instead of Other Paths?
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Graduate U(1):?:SU(3) 1D:2D:3D harmonic oscillator.
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Graduate 3-d harmonic oscillator and SU(3) - how to imagine it?
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Graduate Energy Conservation in an expanded 1D box
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Graduate Does quantum mechanical definition of momentum require movement ?
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Graduate Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Theory
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Graduate Hydrogen spectrum hyperfine structure
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Graduate Classical counterpart of the quantum |nlm> states
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Graduate What Causes the Expansion of Our Universe?
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Graduate Choice of source photon production in entanglement experiments
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Graduate Does the Hartree Approximation Ignore Electron Interactions?
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Graduate Explaining quantum coherence to a layman
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Graduate Velocity, density, ect. : air : molecules spinor field :?:?
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Graduate What exactly is an oscillator in quantum physical context?
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Graduate Has entanglement in quantum physics been experimentally validated?
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Graduate Question about spacetime quantization
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Graduate Elementary Particles with Zero Spin?
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High School Drawbacks of bohr's model of atom
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Graduate How do you transition from the QED Lagrangian to classical electrodynamics?
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Graduate Why No Decoherence in Double Slit Experiment?
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Undergrad Explaining Hydrogen Atom's Line Spectra: The Rutherford Atomic Model
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Graduate QCD \Lambda Parameter: Definition & Its Role in Non-Perturbative QCD
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High School Need Help Remembering An Equation
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Graduate Wave propagation, +z or -z
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Undergrad Quick Uncertainty in an Average Question
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Graduate EM Field strength and plane waves
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Graduate Partition Function: Energy States & Force Constants
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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty - uncertainty about its meaning
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High School What does it mean that two particles have opposite spins?
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Graduate Laser question (Confinement factor and quantum well thickness)
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Graduate Particles with Spin 1/2: Unraveling the Mystery
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Graduate Von Neumann machine for the Universe
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Graduate Uncertainty with Hesienberg’s Uncertainty
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Graduate SF-Mott insulator transition and Wigner-mermin theorem
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Graduate Where Was the Observer Detector in the Double-Slit Experiments?
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Graduate Do virtual photons Doppler-shift?
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Graduate How do I find the time evolution of a state with an operator in the Hamiltonian?
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Undergrad Why is Fourier Integral Meaningless for f(x)=A*cos(ax)?
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Graduate Observation and Gravity: The Double Slit Experiment with Electrons Explained
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Graduate Superposition/electron energy levels
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Graduate What Are the NMR Operators I_x, I_y, and I_z?
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Graduate Helium Energy Level Diagram Analysis w/ Bohr Theory
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Graduate Solving Perplexing Commutator for Simplification
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Graduate What Is a Noncommutative Integral and How Does It Impact Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Why Does the HUP Spectrum Favor Particles Over Flows?
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Graduate Matter + Antimatter Bound State Mathematics
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Graduate Why Are IR and UV Divergences the Same?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: Beginner's Guide to Distances & Discovery
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Graduate Inverse spectral problem in QM
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Graduate Switching to a Matrix Hamiltonian - Conceptual Issues
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Undergrad Fair dice and two slit experiment
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Undergrad Creating : one frame at a time
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High School How Did Galileo's Experiment Measure the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Tunneling effect by means of the instantons
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Graduate Degenerate basis, incomplete set of operators
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Graduate Could Our Universe Be Just a Brane in a Much Larger Reality?
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Graduate Can fractals help solve the mystery of the universe's unified theory?
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Graduate Let us assume Feynman was wrong.
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Graduate Understanding the Bloch Sphere Representation for Quantum States
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Graduate Planck's constant equaled 1 instead of 6.63x10^-34
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Graduate How Real Are Virtual Particles?
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Graduate Showing that wave functions are continuous
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Graduate What are CP maps in QM good for?
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Graduate Understanding Spin States: The Role of Parity and Group Representations
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Graduate Pure spin current vs. spin-polarized charge current?
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Graduate Is the Future Always Uncertain According to Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate A lttile though on multiverses.
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Graduate Just a quick question about some basic terms in QM
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High School Question about double slit experiment
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Graduate Find some clearly written books about quantum physics
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High School What happens when electrons crash into their proton
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Graduate Particles traveling backwards in time
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Graduate Emission line width and the uncertainty principle
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Graduate Finding averages of observables of Bell states
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Graduate What Does Our Brain's Quantum Potential Mean for Humanity?
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Graduate When is a hamiltonian separable and when isnt it?
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Graduate Can Infinite Universes Allow for Reincarnation?
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Graduate Question about Hydrogen Atom Solution
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Graduate Do Quantum Orbitals in the Atom Overlap at Different Energy Levels?
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Graduate Reps of lorentz group and pauli and gamma matrices
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Graduate He+ Energy Level Diagram: Interaction Effects?
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Graduate What Happens to One Electron in an Entangled Pair Affects the Other?
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Graduate Thought I had on the nature of randomness.
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Graduate Is it possible to derive HUP from SE?
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High School Triplet State Explanation for Helium Electron Transitions
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Graduate Is Consciousness the Key to Understanding the Universe?
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Graduate Is the Conservation of Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics Only Probabilistic?
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Graduate Schrodinger Equation and wavefunction collapse
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Graduate Photons and Double Slit Experiment
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Graduate Understanding Elastic Scattering in Electron-Electron Interactions
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Graduate Does entanglement violate special relativity?
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Graduate Completeness Relation in Quantum Mechanics Explained
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Graduate A question about solving the energy eigenvalue of a given Hamiltonian operator
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Graduate Was Bohr's version of quantum mechanics deeply flawed
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Graduate Massive and massless modes of the anchored string.
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Graduate Finding Maximum Dispersion of Total Number (N)
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Graduate Basic Quantum Transport Question
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