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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics
Is BI really required to validate the Hidden Variables?
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Is the differential in the momentum operator commutative?
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Can very distant particles be entangled?
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Are Electron Orbitals Always Spherical in Shape?
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Maggiore Book misunderstanding
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Relativity impacts at quantum level
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Clarifying Neumaier's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Wave or Particle?
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High School Quantum mechanics and reality of matter
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Electric Field Effect on Quantum Well
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What additional events must happen to produce entanglement
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Why do we need Quantum Mechanics so much?
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Superpositions and strong force
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Trying to understand Selection Rules in Cohen-Tannoudji
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Euclidean correlators for finite chemical potential
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Do we really mean Hermitian conjugate here?
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Stern-Gerlach experiment as a measurement
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How does the formula C-6 come about in the following image?
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Are All Solutions of the 1D Schrodinger Equation Energy Eigenstates?
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Clebsch-Gordan coefficients symmetry relation
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Converting operator matrix (Quantum Chemistry question)
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How Does Trace Relations in Fock Space Reflect on Quantum Expectations?
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Quantum Medicine - Explore Its Possibilities
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Is Matter Created continuously?
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Harmonic oscillator positive position expectation value?
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Entanglement and time dilation
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Can someone give me a hand with large root here
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Do you believe what this physics teacher says about entanglement
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Do you believe that entanglement drives the arrow of time?
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Why this macro thing having quantum behaving but other not?
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Stat. States, Orthonorm. expansion coefficients etc qn?
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Particle physics basic concept from Standford Uni help
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How Do Photons Influence Our Vision Through Quantum Wave Properties?
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What makes localized energy eigenstates, localized?
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Bending of Light in diffraction? Is it actually possible?
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Question about reversability/arrow of time
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Kinetic energy of two particles
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics is not weird, unless presented as such
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Why helicity of photon is 1 but not 3?
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What does Double slit experiment actually mean
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What's the difference between these two equations?
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Is there any reason i is left in the denominator here?
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Decoherence and apparent collapse
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Are tracks in collision experiments proof of particles?
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Spectral Gap or Gapless Undecidable
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Can All Particles of a Cat Be in Superposition Simultaneously?
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Why is Decoherence Needed in Quantum Mechanics?
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RIP Prof Rudolf Haag (5 Jan 2016)
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What's the name of the wavefxn int. showing normalizability?
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Hamiltonian and momentum operator acting on a momentum eigenstate
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Weinberg Lectures on QM (2013 ed.), Equation 3.6.18
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Why Is radiation the highest form of entropy?
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Relativistic vs. Nonrelativistic KE Operator question
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Measurement and Preparation in the Double Slit Experiment
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Spin imparting angular momentum
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Vectors, Hilbert Spaces, and Tensor Products
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Now that all loopholes are closed
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Exponential of Pauli spin matrices
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Problem in basic equalities for Huckel energy
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Why are Diagonal Elements of a Time-Dependent Perturbed Hamiltonian Often Zero?
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Advanced quantum mechanics book with solutions
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Insights Struggles With The Continuum - Part 2 - Comments
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Quantum state vector and physical state
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Existence of Space: Does it Exist at Planck Level?
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An abstract long-distance correlation experiment
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Understanding the optimal approximate qubit cloning method
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Solving for Wavelength: What Did I Do Wrong?
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Are gravitons the quanta of spacetime?
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Does measurement violate unitarity?
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Asynchronous Entangled Photon pairs
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References for tunneling decay in magnetic fields
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Few questions about photoelectricity
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What is nonlocality in relativity ?
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Quantum Entanglement: No Comm Thm & Counterfactual Def
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Did only parts of the diamond get entangled?
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Mathematical Proof that Photons have No Rest Mass
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Berry's Curvature Equation cross product calculation
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Different wave function for different observers?
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Schrodinger's Cat radioactive source
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Eigenstates of Orbital Angular Momentum
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Coulomb potential as an operator
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What does the `|' represent in an infinite product notation?
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Pathria page 2 -- total energy for mutually interacting particles
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What Happens to Entangled Particles During Collider Experiments?
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Does a polarisationfilter do a measurement?
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Reconciling Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity: Progress and Challenges
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Lagrangian invariance under infinitesimal transformations
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Energy conservation+superpositions=entanglement?
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Understanding the Measurement and Interaction of Electrons: A Beginner's Guide
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High School Limits of no-communication theorem
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Error : what is n in quantum mechanics
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Mind over matter reality or myth?
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Quantum antenna thought experiment
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Entangled states before observation.
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Possible support to Penrose's OR theory?
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Symmetry groups of molecule - Hamiltonian
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High School Are these good analogues for entanglement
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High School Is entanglement preserved on re-emission of photons
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Understanding Bell's inequality
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Are space and time really quantized?
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Angular momentum during bremsstrahlung
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