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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Graduate Interactions that cause entanglement
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Graduate Understanding Local Gauge Symmetry
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Graduate What if Cramer's FTL Experiment Worked?
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Graduate Is Time Elapsed During Photon Absorption a Quantum Illusion?
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Graduate I've just finished reading Einstein's Biography by Walter Isaacson.
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Graduate Is teleportation just advanced cloning?
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Graduate Is Scientific Publishing Fair in the Context of Hawking's Manuscript?
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Graduate Momentum-space detection of an Electron (EWP)
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Graduate Virtual Particles: How They Work
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics for the 'lay person'
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and Single-Slit Diffraction
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Graduate Variation on Dopfer Experiment - Why Won't This Work?
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Graduate Quantum Non-Locality Subspace Radio
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Graduate Unification 'theory' (small energy)
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Graduate Do Commuting Observables in Quantum Physics Share Common Eigenfunctions?
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Graduate Photons - Wavelength and Wavepackets
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Graduate Entanglement Explained with Epistomological Probability Theory
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory online book, 885pages
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Graduate Questions on Electron Orbitals, Wave Packets, and Coherent States
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Graduate Nine formulations of Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What is the Role of Magnetic Fields in Allowing Electron Transitions?
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Graduate Operator Rotation: Expressing in New Reference Frame
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Graduate How do bilinear covariants relate to the Dirac equation's broader implications?
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Graduate Vacuum Fluctuations: Particles & Antiparticles
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Graduate Calculating Base State for the H Atom using Inverse Fourier Transform
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Graduate Is Annihilation Really Just Positronium Ground State?
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Graduate Schrodinger equation graph help
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Graduate Entanglement + Fusion: need a visual metaphor
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Graduate Elementary particles and fermat's principle
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Graduate Probability of staying in same state after time-dep perturbation?
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Graduate Is entanglement just a mathematical construct or is it a real phenomenon?
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Graduate Where Can I Find Pauli's Original Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem?
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Graduate Superliminal Information Transfer
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Graduate Are Electrons Photons Stuck in Atom's Nucleus?
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Graduate Constructing time-independent wave function with given energies
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Graduate Understanding the Mystery of Photon Wavefunction in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Matter-antimatter annihilation
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory: Field Operators and Lorentz invariance
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Graduate Frequency of a particle? Frequency of what?
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Graduate How Does Light Diffraction Occur in Plasma?
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Graduate How Can a Linear Potential Be Created Experimentally for Electron Studies?
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Graduate Detection of magnetic monopoles
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Graduate Is the Zero Point Consistent Across the Universe?
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Graduate Help Solve Physics Problem: Where is My Mistake?
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Graduate Wigner-Eckart Thm: Calc Double Bar for Electric Dipole Op
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Graduate Difference between interaction and interference of QM systems
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Graduate Calculating Dislocation Chain Length in Solids
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Graduate Confusion about the contour green's function
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Understanding Unity: A Layman's Guide
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Graduate Clarification on Introductory QM
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Graduate Static Charge Photons: Frequency & Wavelength
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High School Kinda new to this stuff, is there anything that makes electrons more
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Graduate Is the Pauli Exclusion Principle Universally Applicable?
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Undergrad What are the angles of photoelectron emissions from a metal surface?
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Graduate What is the Information Loss Paradox and How Does Hawking Radiation Relate?
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Graduate Partial Mossbauer effect—Why not?
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Graduate Experimental verification of QFT?
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Graduate Discover the Truth About Weak Measurements in 2007 | Postbiota Discussion Thread
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Graduate Simple Quantum Information Question
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Graduate Hawking Radiation: Observational Proof, Quantum Fluctuations & More
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Graduate Adam C: Funktionalanalytische u. Geometrische Anomalie Aspekte - Hilfe gesucht
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Graduate Stimulated emission. Energy of the photon inducing the emission.
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Graduate Rabi oscillations and spin 1/2 systems.
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Graduate Deriving Jeans' Result from Magnetic Vector Potential
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Graduate Computational project in quantum physics
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Graduate Do photons collide with each other like any other massive object?
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Graduate Schroedinger Equation (The original article)
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Graduate Understanding Phase Diffusion in Bose Einstein Condensates
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Graduate Infinite Well: Ladder Operators for Simplified Expression
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Graduate Eigenstates: What would happen if you had a laser aimed at a mirror 45 degrees.
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Graduate Second Quantization and Field Operators
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Graduate Exploring the Paradoxical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment
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Graduate A solution to time dependent SE but not Time independent SE?
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Undergrad Quantum Computing: Are D-Wave's Adiabatic Quantum Computers Effective?
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Graduate Is photon emission spherical or linear?
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Graduate Really a virtual particle sea?
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Graduate QM Intro: Questions on Copenhagen, Feynmann and Many Worlds
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Graduate Understanding the Gamow Energy Equation
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Undergrad Proving Linear Theory: Key Points Needed
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Graduate Spicy Questions on Particle Physics
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Graduate Conceptual question about wavefunctions/momentum
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Graduate Momentum to Energy Representation in 3D Box
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Graduate Why are there two different values for the electron magnetic moment?
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Graduate What exactly is a particle - in particular in constrast to a wave
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Graduate When does Hawking radiation start?
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Graduate Zeros of the partition function
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Graduate Polarization, then detection: collapse when?
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Graduate Does every observable commute with the hamiltonian?
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Graduate How can you test if a bipartite system is entangled?
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Graduate Question about the notation in Quantum Physics
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Graduate Classical analouge of electron spin ?
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Graduate Unitary Operators and the Time Evolution Operator: Exploring the Connection
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Graduate Wave/particle duality: what exactly is a particle?
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Graduate The Observer Effect: Testing Double-Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Path integrals and supposed sum over paths
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Graduate Introduction to Quantum Field Theory in curved spacetime
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Graduate How is the act of observation defined in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate Dirac Delta Function Potential (One Dimension)
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Graduate Do photons bounce off of each other?
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