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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Equations for Entanglement and the Double Slit Experiment: A Layman's Guide
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Graduate Energy conservation and michelson interferometers
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Undergrad F = (1/4)(n2/n1)2[1-{(n1-n2)/(n1+n2)}2] ?
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Graduate Can Free Electrons in a Vacuum Become Entangled?
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Graduate Understanding Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Quantum observation of black hole?
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Graduate What is the mathematical function for the atomic orbital?
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Graduate Invariance of integration measure under shifts in field
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Insights Examples of Prequantum Field Theories II: Higher Gauge Fields - Comments
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Graduate Conservation of energy violation of galvanic cell electron
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Graduate Characterization of a gauge theory in terms of observables
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Insights What Does As a Sheaf of Functions on Phase Space Mean?
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Graduate Peskin and Schroeder - Derivation of equation (2.45)
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Graduate Quantum No-Deletion/No-Partial Erasure vs. Measurement
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Insights Examples of Prequantum Field Theories I: Gauge fields - Comments
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Graduate Kubo formula for thermopower (Seebeck coefficient)
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Graduate First loophole-free Bell test?
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Graduate Gauge fixing and gauge transformations
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Graduate If A is Bloch function, then <A(k,x)|dA(k',x)/dx>=δ(k,k')?
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Graduate What alternatives exist for building a qubit without material deposition?
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Graduate The boundary condition for ##\delta## function
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Graduate Is Boltzmann's Phase Cell Assumption Contradictory?
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Graduate "Reading" Schrodinger's equation
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Graduate What is the significance of the factor (2π)^3 in the completeness relation?
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Undergrad Understanding the Wave Function: Time, Distance, and Confusion Explained
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Graduate Field Theory vs Lattice: Why Do Calculations Yield Different Results?
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Graduate Ladder operators in Klein -Gordon canonical quantisation
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Graduate How do I plot this probability density over time?
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Insights What Are the Local Observables in Higher Prequantum Geometry?
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Graduate What is the purpose of introducing the spin state along H
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Graduate Eigenfunctions of the angular momentum operator
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Graduate Multiple Measurements of a single Qubit
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Graduate Comparison between quantum entanglement and a classical version
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Graduate Can Any Traceless Self-Adjoint 2x2 Matrix Be Expressed Using Pauli Matrices?
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Graduate How to Represent Eigenvectors in Column Matrix Form Using Bra-Ket Notation?
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Graduate Diffraction in a single slit setting
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Graduate Dispersion operator in quantum mechanics
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Graduate Dirac equation and structure of spacetime
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Graduate Correlation funciton of a system with translational symmetry
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Graduate Minimizing energy for external field
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Graduate Particle in Ring: Solving Standing Wave
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Graduate Superselection rules and non-observable Hermitian operators
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Graduate Higgs vs Graviton: Causes of Mass & Gravity
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Graduate How do you define the Eigenstates for the number operator?
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Graduate Test functions in wightman axioms
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Graduate How did Max Planck derive his constant H?
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Graduate Confusion about Slater Determinants
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Graduate Derivation of 1st order correction to energy degenerate spec
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Graduate Poincare group representations
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Graduate Understanding the Expression (16) in Kohn Sham Energy Expansion
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Graduate Smallest possible spinning clock?
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Graduate Time frame of entangled particles
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Graduate Conditions in Wave Function, and Integration
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Undergrad Why is Black body radiation continuous?
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Graduate About photons and it's quality
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Insights Higher Prequantum Geometry III: The global action functional - cohomologically - Comments
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Graduate Formula- first order correction to the n-th wave func
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Graduate Griffiths Quantum Question. Unit-less Schrodinger Equation.
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Undergrad Making a program to model the Double Slit Experiment?
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Graduate Understanding photon direction
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Graduate Does the ubiquitousness of EM fields explain single particle
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Graduate Representation of conjugate momentum
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Graduate Are electrons smeared objects prior to measurement?
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Undergrad Why is a leading figure of 1 so special in uncertainties?
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Graduate Was does it mean if one views the wave function as "real"?
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Graduate Time-Reversal Symmetry Explained
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Graduate Yukawa Interaction: What Is It & Why Not Part of Standard Model?
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Graduate Caculating ground state energy using GTO
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Graduate What Are the Values of Matrices β, αk, pk in the Dirac Equation?
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Graduate Question about deriving TE Schrodinger WE
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Graduate Operators implementation with operators
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Graduate Wave function description and Schrödinger's equation
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Graduate What Are the Bounds in Position Space After a Fourier Transform?
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Graduate Energy Conservation in Quantum Systems - Is it Possible?
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Graduate Can communication between two distant points be instantaneous?
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Graduate Can QFT adequately describe the elusive properties of photons?
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Graduate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum computing
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Graduate Looking for online videos on QFT using path integral method
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Graduate What if a photon interacts with a slower photon in front?
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Graduate QFT Index Notation: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Wave Packet Confusion: Questions about Particle Creation and Motion
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Graduate Are photons really particles or just a misconception?
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Insights Higher Prequantum Geometry II: the Principle of Extremal Action - Comments
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Graduate Transition dipole moment: cause or result of interaction?
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Graduate QM probability and normal distribution
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Graduate Are Quantum Mechanics and a rotating fan comparable?
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High School Why quantum physics like a math theory till a physics theory
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Undergrad Why carbon is used in nano technology?
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Graduate How do quarks determine which quarks to pair with?
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High School Tom Campbell and his outrageous claim
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Graduate The atom as a classical object
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Graduate Measurement problem and computer-like functions
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Graduate Probability of particle to exceed C?
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Graduate Quantum Tunnel Macro-Scale Structure Disassembly
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Graduate Relationships between QM and QFT Particles
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Graduate Expansion of the solution if interacting KG equation
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Undergrad An electron in atom that rotate proton, has it radiation?
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Graduate Can Quantum Phenomena Be Explained by Many Interacting Classical Worlds?
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Graduate How Does a Spin-1/2 Particle Behave in a Magnetic Field with X and Z Components?
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Graduate Understanding Wave Functions: Insights & Analysis
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