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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

A Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Remark on electric charge Lorentz invariance
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Proving Wave-Particle Duality in Proton Twin Slit Experiment?
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QED Feynman (coupling number called j)
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Can We Define the Size of an Electron Theoretically or Experimentally?
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Electron indeterminism Problem
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Which is stronger? eletrical or magnetic fields?
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Can the semiclassical propagator be defined using a Hamilton-Jacobi equation?
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Recovering SE from Path integral
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Uncertainty Principle and Wave Particle Duality
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Question about Hawking paradox.
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A few questions about the Bohr model
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Unraveling the Mystery of Wave Packets: Manufacturing the Universe
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Remeasurement of a quantum system
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The Potential Well In Quantum Mechanics
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Relativistic particle in a box
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EM Spectrum Continuous or Discrete?
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Can positrons create a time-traveling chain reaction in vacuum?
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Definition of the dressed propagator
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Extracting Energy from the Casimir Effect
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For proton and electron of identical energy encounter same potential
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Quantum Mechanics Killed My Cat
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Questions in the quantum theory of radiation
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Rotating Dirac particle current
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What is the connection between Feynman's arrow and Schrödinger's psi?
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High Temperature Superconductivity: Can Two Electrons Interact?
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3D harmonic oscillator ground state
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Why can't SR explain why electrons do not crash into the nucleus?
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What is the physical meaning of the position operator in QFT?
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Questions on Entanglement and Double-Slit Experiment
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What Happens to an Electron During Quantum Tunneling?
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Photons from Electrons: Unanswered Physics Questions
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Twin slits; state preparation
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When does an accelerated electron not radiate?
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Does Spacetime Noncommutativity Extend to Macroscopic Scales?
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Electron Question: Is Electron a Superposition of Sizes?
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Is Angular Momentum Quantized Due to Non-Commutable Rotations?
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Particle in Box: Zero Probability Density at Certain Points
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What happens to a field after annihilation?
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Against Realism: Examining the Meaning of Local Realism
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Where photons will stop being themselves
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Age of a particle and related considerations
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Understanding Borel transform (sum) in QM
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Where can I find a good account of functional methods in QFT?
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Discover the Exp Operator Expansion Identity for Form-Based Operators
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Does Bohr's model of Hydrogen atom violate the uncertainty principle?
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Schrodinger's Black Hole: Can we ever know what happens inside?
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The Mystery of Particles in Two Places at Once
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Harmonic Oscillator Operators?
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Square of wave function gives us the probability density
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I in understanding the measurement process.
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Debunking HUP explanation myth
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Linearity of Schrodinger Equation
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Klein-Gordon vs Schrodinger-Fock Equation
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Interpreting the Harmonic Oscillator
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Does Wick Rotation Change the Physics in Quantum Field Theory?
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Commutator of a density matrix and a real symmetric matix
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Virtual particles and velocities greater than C
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Commutation Relations: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
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Is the vacuum of space really devoid of 'everything'?
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Hermiticity and expectation value
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The Meaning of Purity in Entanglement
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Delayed Choice Quantum Erasure Demystified
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Fundamental Process of an electron absorbing a photon
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Move over, quantum cryptography
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How Do Dipole Moments Affect Molecular Energy in Electric Fields?
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What is the explanation for the 25% probability in Bell's Gedanken Experiment?
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Why do magnets attract or repel each other?
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Books for Quantum field theory?
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Finding Schrödinger & De Broglie's 1926 Quantum Physics Papers
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Quantum Entanglement: Effects on Particle 'b
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Does the Equivalence principle holds in QM.
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Teleportation (new Danish experiment with light and cesium atoms)
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QM: Time-Varying Forces & Potential Energy
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I hear a lot about nonlocality and it's relationship to QM
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Eading in many books that the unification of quantum mechanics
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Quantum Mechanics and Determinism?
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Fundamental process of a photon elastically scattering from an electon
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Hilbert space of direct products
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How Do Force Particles Like Photons and Gluons Exert Attraction?
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About violation of Bell's inequalities
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Why do symmetry and Hamiltonian operators commute?
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Particle & Wave Nature of EM Energy: Questions Answered
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How do we know a state function will stay normalized?
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Is the Relativistic Mass of Light Affecting Quantum Experiments?
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Solution of hydrogen atom : legendre polynomials
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2-slits, 2-observers, 2-languages, 2-outcomes ?
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Reflection of a High-Energy Particle at a Potential Barrier
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Operators in a three level system
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Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects
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Protons + Neutrons + Electrons =?
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Is it true that unitary transform in QM corresponds to canonical transform
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What is the phenomenon of synchronized electron orbits?
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Learning QFT from Peskin and Schroeder
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The vacuum in QFT. What is it. Why have it. Does everyone believe in it?
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Time Arrow: Entropy & Energy - QP Explored
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Double Slit: Measurement Device & Screen Combination?
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Born Conditions on Wavefunctions
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Delayed choice quantum eraser question
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Probability of zero in stationary wave state
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How can the particle fit in the well then?
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