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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Alternative model for counterfactual definiteness in Bohm-like EPR
Spin parity and attractive/repulsive forces
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Determine if System State is Pure or Mixed?
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Normalization of ground state "1/2hw"
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Light speed and uncertanty principle
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Observing Particles: Is Consciousness the Factor?
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Question about creation and annihilation operators?
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A good quntum mechanics book to review before grad school
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Method for deduce Schrödinger Equation
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Dirac Equation Charge Density
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Spin-Orbit interaction in nucleus' rest frame
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Simple quastion about superposition
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Loop Quantum Gravity and the Concept of the Universe as a Co
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Help with Heisenberg's "isospin" Hamiltonian
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Quantum entanglement: where is the pair?
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Experiment from Einstein Bohr debate
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Position & Momentum: Understanding Expectation Values
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Quantum Teleportation: Nucleus and Standard Model
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Delayed ChoiceQuantum Eraser: what about decision?
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How strong are fluid experiments in restoring determinism?
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Parity violation on macroscopic scale
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What is the suitable unitary operator for a rotating frame?
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Can Dumbbell-Shaped Orbitals Be Experimentally Confirmed?
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Density Matrix for Spin 1/2 particle in a magnetic field
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What is potential barrier against the photon penetration
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The Casimir Effect: Explaining Exotic Matter
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Quantum Entanglement - proven?
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Observer Effect: Predetermined Change When Observed?
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Conservation of energy and quantum weirdness
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Randomness of radioactive decay
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Why does i-epsilon prescription not cure spin 1 propagator
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Entanglement and event horizon
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Can the Displacement Operator Rotate a Photonic State in Phase Space?
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Microcanonical ensemble density matrix
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Question about the no-cloning theorem
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First order correction of wavefunction in degenerate perturbation
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"Topological" properties of photons?
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What are the problems with the Orch-Or Consciousness Theory?
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S-matrix structure of the lightest particle
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Extracting ground state in path integral
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Quick question regarding a step in a bra ket derivation
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Two slit experiment at home and interference
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How to trace over spinor indices?
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Creating a Quantum Circuit for Measuring X⊗Z, Z⊗X, & Y⊗Y Simultaneously
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Deriving Tanabe Sugano diagram
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Quantum entanglement and Einstein's theory of relativity
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Validity of perturbation theory
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A question about Matrix Mechanics
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Understanding 1PI Vertex and Self-Energy Conventions in Quantum Field Theory
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How to Calculate Wavefunction for Arbitrary Time?
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Double Slit Experiment: Pattern Variations
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A variation of the Bell experiment
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Classical Circular Polarization vs. Photon Spin Eigenstates
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Viability of particle in a box modeling
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Ket and Bra with the momentum j,m
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Polariton Vortices Created from Laser
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Double Slit Experiment: History & First Time Made by Electrons
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Expectation value of a product of hermitian operators
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Vacuum Fluctuations and a Preferred Frame
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Orbital angular momentum projection
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Long distance quantum tunneling
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Quantum Physics beginner books?
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How to get the conserved quantities of a integrable quantum system?
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Is Virtual Wave-Particle Duality a Misconception in Quantum Mechanics?
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Understanding Eigen Functions: A Beginner's Guide
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Vacuum port in optics, Casimir effect, fluctuations of vacuum or electrons.
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How Do You Calculate the Normalization Constant for Radial Wave Functions?
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Question about the best method to use for finding wavefunctions and eigenvalues
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How Do Particles Interact in Quantum Field Theory?
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Trouble with Hermitian operators?
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Zero from which the energy is measured
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Hermite and Legendre polynomials
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Vertex corrections 1-loop order Yukawa theory
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Path Integral From Heisenberg Uncertainty?
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The relationship of orbital hybridization between quantum mechanics
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Wave Particle Duality & Uncertainty Principle: Which Came First?
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Derivation of Planck Radiation Formula
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Pauli exclusion and superposition states
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Does Quantum Physics Suggest the Universe Requires a Mind?
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The Uncertainty Principle Uncertainty
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Particle deflection in a Stern-Gerlach experiment
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Quantum wave destruction question
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Deriving Boltzmann's Distribution
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Lattice QED, most likely path of fields --> no interactions?
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Single particle Density Matrix meaning
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Help to clarify chemcial potential
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What Does It Mean Particles Only Have Location if Measured?
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Casimir effect excludes photon modes*, same for two slit interferometer?
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Calculating a matrix element & first order shift
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Does quantum field theory supersede quantum mechanics?
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Quantizing the conjugate operator to adjoint operator
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Legitimacy in visualizing the orbital overlap
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How does entanglement play a crucial role in quantum computing?
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Expecting the possible event of zero probability
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Light & Electron Energy: Comparing Quantized Energies
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Fraction of electrons excited above fermi level
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Can the naked eye change the outcome of the double slit experiment?
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Pointless in talking about atomic term for a certain micro-state?
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Must ensembles be homogeneous?
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What is a particle in quantum mechanics?
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Superposition in the density matrix formalism
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