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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Undergrad Hilbert Space vs Quantum Vacuum
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Graduate Hydrogen atom ground state wave function complex conjugate
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Graduate Total Internal Reflection explained with Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Can QM be described by Markov chain theory?
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Undergrad Does this type of potential have a name?
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Graduate QFT: Lorentz Trans+ Field infinitesimal variation
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Graduate Radiation reaction in the classical limit of QED?
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Graduate Minimum-uncertainty wave function -- contradiction?
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Graduate Spectrum Continuity: Quantum & Real-Life Perspectives
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Graduate Unitary evolution and environment
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Graduate How to merge beams with POVMs?
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Can someone explain me this Quantum Picture?
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Graduate Degeneracy removed when commuting observables are specified?
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Graduate Relation between dimensional regularization and high-energy modes
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Graduate Basis for electron spin in a quantum field
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Graduate What Distance Makes the Casimir Effect Negligible?
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Graduate Visualizing Decoherence in a Momentum Basis
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Graduate What issues can D wave quantum processor solve ?
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Graduate Time reversal and motion reversal
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Graduate Electrons, Muons and Pauli Exclusion
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Graduate Do virtual particles interact with each other?
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Graduate Prove the nth energy eigenfunction has n-1 zeros
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Graduate Why Is Bloch's Theorem Derived Using Complex Methods?
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Graduate Standard Model, Mass in QFT - Is There Consensus?
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Graduate Does the Higgs field truly exist if it cannot be directly measured?
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Graduate Unphysical nature of ##\phi^{3}## interaction
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Graduate Understanding Interference of Qubits with Varying Density Matrices
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Graduate Recovering QM from QFT: David Tong Notes
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Graduate Distinguishability of electrons in an atom
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Graduate Conceptual questions on unitarity and time evolution
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Graduate Pairs of observables in uncertainty principle
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Graduate What effect would one expect if the Critical Temperature is
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Undergrad Why aren't we on maverick branches?
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Graduate Can temperature affect the absorption and emission ranges of atomic spectra?
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Graduate I would like to learn about the string theory.
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Graduate Propagator of inverse harmonic oscillator
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Graduate Error in Srednicki renormalization?
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Graduate From how far away is radiated energy of photons effective?
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Graduate Wave equation indicates the probability density
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Graduate Intuition for divergences in sunset diagram
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Graduate Quantum Information Theory: Trace of Density Matrix Explained
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Graduate Prove the nth Hermite polynomial has n real zeros
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Graduate Decoherence in the long time limit of density matrix element
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Graduate Relationship between Quantum Numbers and Quantum Information
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Graduate Explaining John Bell & Anton Zeilinger's Attempt to Prove No Definite Reality
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Graduate How Do You Construct Excited States in a Two-Boson Harmonic Oscillator?
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Graduate Is there a Bell type inequality involving only three values?
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Graduate Trace Distance in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Are photons really anti-correlated off their basis vectors?
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Insights A Hand-Wavy Discussion of the Planck Length - Comments
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Graduate Realism and counterfactual definiteness in Bell's theorem
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Graduate The spectral gap and it's decidability
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Graduate Question related to a 3D finite spherical well
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Graduate Why is Quantum Mechanics Inherently Probabilistic?
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Graduate Why does gauge fixing break gauge symmetry?
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Graduate Distance between positron and electron
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Graduate What is the relationship between frequency and energy in matter waves?
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Undergrad Parallel universes and randomness
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Graduate Wave-function solution of a rectangular-well potential
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Graduate Ground-state energy of harmonic oscillator(operator method)
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Graduate Quantum effects caused by our mathematics?
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Graduate Collapse of Wave: Effects on Energy & Position Measurements
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Graduate What Experiments Can Enhance Your Understanding of Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate How can pure EM waves experience decoherence?
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Graduate Counting States of Degeneracy in 3-D Particles in a Box
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Graduate Is Fokker Planck equation equivalent to Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Is the Spectral Gap Problem in Quantum Mechanics Undecidable?
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Graduate Experiment showing energy levels of light are quantized
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Undergrad Must even functions have even number of nodes?
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Graduate Can Numerical Simulations Reveal Violations of CHSH Inequalities?
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Graduate Isn't Schrodinger's cat doomed anyways?
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Graduate Learning Feynman Diagrams: Matrices & Dirac Adjoints
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Graduate Why Do Some Particles Decay Faster Than Others?
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Undergrad What is the explanation for quantum correlations?
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Graduate Are Some Atomic Orbitals From a 4D Wave Function?
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Graduate Electromagnetic waves and the correspondence principle
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Graduate QED & Thin Films: Wave Interference or Probability?
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Graduate How does the wavefunction "know" the observables?
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Graduate Perceived contradiction in non-locality principle
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Graduate Why is the transition in resistance gradual at the Critical Temperature
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Graduate Possible explanation for a Bell experiment?
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Graduate 100% transmission through a potential barrier
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Graduate What are some coincidences in quantum mechanics that make life possible?
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Graduate What determines light-matter interaction processes?
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Graduate Is the collapse of a wave function deterministic or random?
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Graduate QED explanation of entanglement
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Graduate How to get from the wavefunction to weighted states?
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Graduate What prior experiments justified the notion of entanglement?
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Graduate Do Electrons need Energy to Excite the EM field?
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Graduate Free particle propagation: paradox?
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Graduate Debunking Misconceptions About QCD: Understanding the Behavior of Quarks
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Graduate Unitary and linear operator in quantum mechanics
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Undergrad What exactly does quantum entanglement imply?
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Graduate Must the 1st derivative of phi be undetermined at V=infinity
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Graduate Commutation relations for angular momentum operator
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Graduate What is the difference between psi(x;y) and psi(x) in 2D BO
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Graduate Can synchronization emulate non-locality ?
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Graduate Anderson localization and electron flow/diffusion?
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Graduate Eberhard assumptions and FTL communication
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