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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Is it Valid to Treat a Solid as a Large Molecule in Calculating Specific Heat?
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Graduate Why do collapse functions change form in master equations?
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Graduate Potential energy term in Schrodinger's equation?
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Graduate Origin of Charge: Electrons, Protons & Photons
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Graduate Suggested topics for a beginner in QP? What got you hooked?
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Graduate Mathematical conundrum when adding complex exponentials
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Graduate What Are Incomplete Collapses and Tails in Objective Collapse Theories?
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Graduate Confused about the Pauli Exclusion Principle....
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Graduate Measuring Qubits: Basics for Quantum Computing Beginners
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Undergrad What is the difference between a vector and a vector space?
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Graduate KE operator and eigenfunctions
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Eraser Experiments
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Graduate A thought experiment of wavefunction collapse
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Graduate Current conservation beta function
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Graduate Can a pilot wave be instantaneous?
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Graduate Why does anomaly mean symmetry is broken?
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Graduate Quantum Suicide: Why is only experimenter convinced?
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Graduate Feynman rules for nonlinear sigma models
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Graduate Bound states as a solution of free particles?
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Graduate Angular momentum of a free Dirac particle
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Graduate Are there separate quantum fields for spin 1/2 particles in modern QFT?
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Graduate Software to calculate detection probability for simple cases
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Birgit Dopfer's Thesis in English, Please?
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Graduate 'Information' in Quantum Physics
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Graduate Why does xenon exhibit more spectral lines than heavier elements like mercury?
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Graduate Wavefunctions of Singlet and Triplet States
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Graduate Calculation of proton's lifetime
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Graduate Hamiltonian for a free electron in electromagnetic field
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Graduate Quantum harmonic oscillators DE wavefunction
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Graduate Interpretation of a before $\gamma^{5}$ in J$_{\alpha}$
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Graduate Equation used to find kinetic energy of proton
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Graduate Feynman rules for Yukawa theory
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Graduate Set of postulates implies postulates of Q.M.?
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Graduate Quantum Computing Explained in 10 Sentences
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Graduate Why electron doesn't fall on proton, quantum explanation
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Graduate Can Quarks Break the Strong Nuclear Force?
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Graduate Finding Wavefunction with just the Hamiltonian
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Graduate The Optical Theorem (Total cross section?)
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Graduate Understanding Recoil in Photon Emission and the Role of Quantum Electrodynamics
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Graduate What is the truth behind quantum entanglement?
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Graduate Can Szego Projectors Be Interpreted as POVM in von Neumann Density Context?
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Graduate Holographic Universe. 2D Universe = Matrix?
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Graduate Mediating particles of forces.
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Graduate New Quantum Physics Theories by 18-Year-Old: Seeking Safe Publication Help
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Graduate Wick theorem in "QFT for the Gifted Amateur"
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Graduate Descriptions of time evolution: closed vs open systems
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Graduate Interference on paper, ground glass etc. surfaces
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Graduate Energy-time uncertainty principle
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Graduate Emitting two photons in a single transition?
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Graduate Conditions for interaction in the quantum world
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Graduate Quantum Reality: Evidence for Everything Happening Simultaneously
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Graduate Kochen-Specker Theorem Assumptions
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Graduate Quantum Fourier transform
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Graduate Bose and Fermi statistics in 1+1 spacetime?
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Insights Renormalisation Made Easy - Comments
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Graduate How does vacuum polarization conserve energy?
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Graduate Is the Wave Function of a Photon the Same as a Classical Wave?
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Graduate Relation between adiabatic approximation and imaginary time
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Graduate Dual Slit: how are single electrons/photons detected?
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect: Measuring Star Diameters
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Graduate Hubbard Stratonovich transformation
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Graduate Greens functions from path integral
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Undergrad Correct results from obsolete theories: Only coincidences?
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Graduate Solution of equation for decaying real scalar field
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Graduate Fluctuation operator and partial wave
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Graduate Double slit over time, single slit in moment
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Graduate Interaction - Fundamental question
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Graduate Greens function path integral representation
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Graduate Question about quantum erasure experiment
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Graduate What does a local non-realistic theory look like?
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Graduate Density of states in 2 dimensional box
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Graduate Boundary conditions of the radial Schrodinger equation
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Graduate Question about Entanglement and SR
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Graduate Easy Question About the Number Operator
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Graduate Understanding Mach's Principle and the Existence of Objects in the Universe
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Graduate Why are all particles bosons or fermions?
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Graduate Is Gravity a Force or a Deformation of Space?
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Graduate Photon as a Mathematical Concept in Theoretical Physics
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Graduate Why Use the Dirac Equation for Graphene Instead of the Schrödinger Equation?
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Graduate Single Slit Experiment: Details & Equations
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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Evidence for a Holographic Reality?
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Graduate Bell theorem without hypotheses?
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Graduate Are photon probability amplitudes entangled in a two-filter setup?
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Graduate Photoelectric effect: V classically independent of intensity
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Graduate Do creation operators for different spins commute?
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Graduate About time symmetry in quantum physics
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Undergrad Is this credible: can the future affect the past
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Graduate Gauge transformation which counteract wave function
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Insights Visualizing the 2-D Particle in a Box - comments
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Graduate The Wick rotation in position space
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Graduate Help with Density Operators: Peter Yu Seeks Assistance
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Graduate Eigenstates in a 3-state spin 1 system
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Graduate How Does the Inverse Bell Theorem Challenge Quantum Measurement Predictions?
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Graduate Proving Coherent States are Eigenfunctions of Annihilation Operators
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Graduate Equivalence between Weyl relations and CCR
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Graduate The free particle wave function <x|p>?
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Graduate Is Multi-Particle Entanglement Possible in Quantum Systems?
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Graduate Finding the maxima or minima of band-edges?
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Graduate Photon wave function and "QED: the strange theory of light "
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Graduate How Does Unitarity Conserve Information?
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