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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Graduate Can Outcome Counting Replace the Born Rule in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Hamiltonian in terms of ladders, question.
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Graduate Quantum Network and Quantum Imaging
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Graduate What is the operator for velocity in spherical coordinates?
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Graduate 3.)tunnel and photoelectric effects
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Graduate Quantum Computing: Large Chance of Getting Desired Output?
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Graduate Can one photon be anywhere in Universe?
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Graduate Measuring Quantum State: Solving for a Specific Value of a Unitary Function
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Does Light Have Mass? Friend Debate
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Graduate Mean lifetime of a particle (quantum)
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Graduate Abstract Schrödinger's equation in QFT
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Graduate Can vacuum be considered as excitable medium?
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Undergrad Deriving Uncertainties for m and b in Least Squares Method"
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Graduate Spectral Zeta function
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Graduate Why Are Electrons Considered Point Particles in Magnetic Moment Studies?
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Graduate Operator and Commutor Question
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Graduate What is the Bessel-Parseval relation and how does it work?
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Graduate Another photoelectric effect related question
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Graduate Difference Equation: Explained & Derived - QM1
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Undergrad Show that a wave function is correctly normalised?
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Graduate Technical question about Nikolic' Quantum Myths
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Undergrad Understanding Fourier Transform: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate QFT and Electrons: Is Instantaneous Orbital Change Possible?
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Graduate Understanding "Borrowed Energy" in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Strange definition of regularization of Operators
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Graduate Heisenbergs Uncertainty for light
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Graduate Understand Uncertainty Principle in a Week
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Graduate Argument about inteference experiments : help me win
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Graduate Beginner to Braket State Vectors
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Graduate Recognizing a product of two 3d rotations (matrices)
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle logic help
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Graduate Dopler Shift and Photon Number
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Graduate Help about the exchange energy
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Undergrad Eigenstates, Eigenblahs, and Eigenpoofs? HELP O.O
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Graduate Propagator/transition amplitude through intermediate integrations
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Graduate Can E and B Be Eigenfunctions of a Differential Operator?
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Graduate Understanding Renormalization in Quantum Mechanics: Examples and Context
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Graduate Frequency: What is it? Questions about Frequency, Doppler Effect and Mass
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Graduate Ladder Operator/hermiticity
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Graduate What are the Consequences of Varying Planck's Constant?
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Graduate Quantum Wave Function: Dependency & Increment Mystery
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Graduate How abou the hidden variable theory?
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Graduate Weak Field Tensor: Explained by Ben
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Undergrad Tunneling through a PE barrier
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Solve "And God Said" Equation on Postcard | D
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Graduate How to prove Coleman's formula for the ratio of two determinants?
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Graduate Double slit electron experiment
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Graduate What is the meaning of the lower case i in the Schrodinger equation?
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Graduate QM calculation of vacuum energy
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Graduate What Causes Quantum Foam to Form at a Sub-Planck Level?
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Undergrad Let's get it right about Electron Waves
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Graduate The magnetic field in Stern-Gerlach
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Graduate Quantum myth 4: The only reality is the measured reality
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Graduate Why did Schrodinger call his equation eigenvalue problem?
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Graduate Calculating Time Evolution of Density Matrix
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: What Happens & Why?
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Graduate Temperature and quantum physics
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The title? (one of Dirac's books)
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High School Red Light in Darkrooms: Benefits for Photographic Film
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Graduate Stern Gerlach Gradient Field Strength
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Graduate Psi^4 Theory: A Fermion with Quartic Self-Interaction
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Graduate Question on quadratic fluctuations in the path integral formalism
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Graduate FTL Communication-Best Candidate?
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Graduate Natural Eigenbasis composite 2 X Spin 1/2 system
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Graduate Understanding the Physical Meaning of Pauli Matrices and Electron Spin
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Undergrad The Power of Photon Theory: How UV & IR Light Affect Skin Cells
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Graduate Particle in Two Boxes: Impact of Dividing Barrier on Energy State
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Graduate Classical -> Quantum Generator of Translation
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Graduate What Is The Origination Of Zero Point Energy
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Graduate I need your help teaching physics
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Graduate What is the justification for the substitution p_x -> (h/i)d/dx in physics?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Fundamental Question
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Graduate How Are the Coefficients of a Qubit's Density Matrix Constrained?
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Graduate What is the Operator for Spin-3/2 Rotation in Fermion Fields?
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Graduate Virtual Particles: Explained in Layman's Terms
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Graduate A practical application of quantum mechanics
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Graduate What is the Force of Radiation Resistance?
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Graduate Time scale of photon absorption in electron
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Graduate Quantum Physics, when is spin-orbit coupling necessary?
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Graduate Effect Preceding Cause: A Quantum Physics Thought Experiment on Usenet
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Graduate Wavefunction collapse => increase in entropy?
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Graduate Hamiltonian & Degeneracy: Conditions
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Undergrad Energy levels in a potential well
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Graduate Hawking radiation - please explain
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Graduate Wave-particle duality/double slit experiment
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Graduate Can Maxwell's equations describe a single photon?
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Graduate Wave-Particle Duality: Photons, Electrons & Heisenberg's Uncertainty
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Graduate Is Angular Momentum Conserved in EPR Pair Measurements?
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Graduate Can every attractive 1D potential have at least one bound state?
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Graduate Why permeability equal to unity?
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Graduate The phase velocity of laser light
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Graduate What Defines Quantum Chaos in Experiments?
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Graduate Simple example of the collapse of the wavefunction?
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Graduate Did Exponential Expansion Trigger Early Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking?
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Graduate Can Planck Units Truly Redefine Our Understanding of the Universe?
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Graduate Written in the skies: why quantum mechanics might be wrong
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Graduate Free Particle Wavepacket Spreading: Is it True?
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Graduate Particle in an infinite potential well, showing the uncertainty in x
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