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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Calculating Casimir-Force: Zero Point Oscillation vs Virtual Particles
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Graduate Why electron circulating in an orbit must spiral inwards?
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Graduate Sakurai's treatment of Feynman's Path Integral
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Graduate Complex Scalar Field in Terms of Two Independent Real Fields
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Graduate Virtual Photon Lifetime: Proton in Atom Nucleus
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Graduate The speed of light and Heisenburg
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Graduate Casimir-Effect: Beyond Virtual Particles & Photons?
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Graduate Does Bell's Theorem apply to non-local HV theories?
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Graduate EPR statements to agree/disagree with or to comment on:
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Undergrad Does Negative Time Really Exist in Physics?
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Graduate Griffiths Afterword and Superluminal Shadows
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Graduate If we all locked ourselves in rooms
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Graduate Thought experiment / paradox question
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Graduate Uncertain about uncertainty principle
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Graduate Energy-time Uncertainty and mass est. of exchange particles
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Graduate Measure the speed of electron wave
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Graduate Guidance in solving Scalar Field with BC's
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Graduate The Uncertainty Principle and Quantized Time
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Graduate Van der Waals vs. Casimir Force: Explained
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Graduate He Atom Cooper Pair Vacuum Superconductor
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Graduate Recommended Books for Feynman's Path Integrals in QM | Bibliography Suggestions
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Graduate My gratiude/thankfulness for PF
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Graduate Maxwell equations from spin-1 transformations under boosts
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Graduate Vacuum to Vacuum Amplitudes and Functional Integrals
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Graduate Can Quantum Computers Revolutionize Computing with 32 States per Electron?
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Graduate Ranking of Quantum Mechanics interpretations?
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Graduate Continuous and discreet parts of an electromagnetic wave
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Graduate Quantum measurement and prediction
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Graduate Counting Possible Configurations for n Bosons Restricted to kth Excitation
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Graduate Is Hilbert space an isomorphism with the field of n-dimensional complex numbers?
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Graduate Quantum gauge general relativity
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Graduate Exact Perturbation Theory: Solving H0 and Obtaining Precise Energies
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Graduate Experimental/theoretical quantum optics?
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Graduate Shooting photons 1 per second?
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High School Good Beginner Book for Quantum Physics for High Schoolers
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Graduate The Impact of Smaller Planck's Constant: Examining Quantum Phenomena
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Graduate Nobelprize for quantum optics
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Graduate What are the current pressing questions in Einstein's field of study?
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Graduate What is the propagation amplitude of a particle in QFT?
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Graduate Concept of Field: Canonical Formalism in QFT
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Undergrad What Determines the Number of Electrons in Orbital Shells?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement and Communication
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Graduate Help: question about wavefunction
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Graduate Photon Wave Collapse Experiment (Yeah sure; AJP Sep 2004, Thorn )
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics the same?
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Graduate Is the Concept of Potentials Incompatible with Relativity?
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Graduate Propogation Amplitude of Free Particles from \vec{x}_0 to \vec{x}
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Graduate Quantization over quantization
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Graduate Can the Energy for Non-Integer Values be Modeled in a Quantum System?
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Graduate Are state vectors and wavefunctions the same?
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Graduate Can All Operators Be Expressed as Scaled Products of Projectors?
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Graduate Can You Commute Matrix Elements in Quantum Operators?
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Graduate Curious statement about operators in my QM book?
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Graduate Question about the meaning of planck's formula
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Graduate Electromagnetic wave in quantum physics?
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Graduate At what point does determinism become untenable?
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Graduate Conservative Systems: Hydrogen Atom & E in Schrodinger's Equation
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Graduate Knowledge of the superposition of states
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Graduate General-Audience Essays on Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate What are Quantum Entangled Photons and how are they produced?
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Graduate How to quantize a system in cubic well
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Original Data from Bell's Experiment
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Graduate How Do Momentum and Kinetic Energy Relate in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Tensor Operators: Wigner-Eckart Thm Explained
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Graduate Zero-Point Physics: Latest Advances
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Graduate Majority Opinion on Interpreting Bell's Theorem
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Graduate Question about Nick Herbert's Bell proof
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High School Atomic Structure Determines Element Properties
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Graduate Interested in Quantum Mechanics? Check out 'The Quantum Challenge'!
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Graduate Loopholes in optical Bell tests
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Graduate Hartree-Fock exchange operator
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Graduate Union of Classical and Quantum
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Graduate How do group multiplication laws work in group theory and physics?
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Graduate What additional role |p> play here?
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Graduate Complex phases in Stern-Gerlach filters.
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John Stewart Bell Lecture Papers: 1989 ICTP
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Graduate Perturbation theory using Cohen-Tannoudji
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Graduate Can Helium-3 and Antimatter Deuterons Achieve Quantum Superposition?
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Graduate Electrostatic force and virtual photon exchange
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Graduate Entanglement and the Mach principle
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Graduate Required Math for Quantum Mechanics: Analysis vs Numerics
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Undergrad Why is the Wave Formula Zero at x=±∞? Explained
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Undergrad Understanding Quantum Leaps: Dispelling Misconceptions
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Graduate SE equation with a strong potential
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High School Quantum Computing Research: Find Info for School Report
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Graduate QED & Static Electricity: Is There a Connection?
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Graduate Finding expectation value using Heisenberg picture
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Graduate Energy of Electon and Energy of the Field
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Graduate About bare and physical mass, Juan R
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Graduate Do QM Axioms Guarantee Solutions for Any Potential in 1D Wave Functions?
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Graduate Is Quantum Uncertainty Related to Dynamic Instability?
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Graduate Non-Linear Schrodinger Equation and the Existence of Eigenfunctions
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Undergrad Is the Quantum Vacuum Truly Empty Space?
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Undergrad What is Hidden Variable Theory?
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Graduate Can Quantum Processors Revolutionize Computing and Validate Quantum Physics?
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Undergrad Double-Slit Question - PLEASE HELP
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Graduate Critical mass formula: The Los Alamos Primer and Rudolf Peierls paper from 1939
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Graduate Scientists teleported a laser beam
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Graduate Question on double slit experiment
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Graduate Particle Momentum and Position Calculation in Heisenberg Picture
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