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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Continuous set of eigenvalues in matrix representation?
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Graduate The Path Inetgral and Classical Lagrange
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Just Got Less Complicated - Really?
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Graduate Nuclear Spin and Selection Rules
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Graduate Computation of propagation amplitudes for KG field
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Graduate Understanding Stable Particles: Neutrons, Electrons, Photons, and Neutrinos
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Graduate How can a wave have a continuously changing trajectory?
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Graduate 50th anniversary of Bell's theorem
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Graduate Dual Nature of Photon (and such particles) - WHY?
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Graduate Can Bob & Alice disagree on QM description of experiment?
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Graduate Two-fold question about wave function
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Graduate Qubit Math: Partitioning Phi into BetaA and BetaB
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Graduate Why is Energy Conservation Not Guaranteed?
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Undergrad Alain Aspect's Experiment Explained: Beginner's Guide
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Undergrad Planck's law (wavelength, frequency, angle?)
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Graduate Where does the 'i' come from in QFT path integral?
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Graduate Are Uncertainty Principles Found in Classical Mechanics?
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Graduate Limited probabilities : a nonsense ?
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Graduate How can I sort photons by spin?
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Graduate What is the dimension of the state vector?
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Graduate Is it possible that Higgs is a force carrier?
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Graduate Gauge invariance/Lorentz invariance of regulator in QED
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Graduate Can a Quantum Field Be Defined by a Finite or Infinite Set of Points in 3D?
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Graduate Magnetic moment from neutral particles in QFT
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Graduate Derivation of Wiens Displacement & Distribution Laws from Thermodynamics
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Graduate Someone me understanding the quantum mechanics
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Graduate Photon Characteristics: Experiencing and Observing
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Graduate Schrödinger's time-dependent equation (general)
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Graduate Why the space is isotropic in the vector particle's decay?
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Graduate What is the potential field of an ion near the Bohr radius?
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Graduate Dirac Equation computational complexity
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Graduate Is the Hamiltonian for Klein Gordon fields Hermitian?
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Graduate Fock State: A Picture from Physical Point of View
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Graduate How is the presence of a *single* electron determined?
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Graduate Law of the minimization of mystery
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Graduate Decoherence relationship to the measurement problem
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Graduate The basic math of quantum mechanics
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Graduate Question on peskin and schroeder
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Graduate Does the Lagrangian of a mattress in QFT make sense?
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Graduate Communication with past and future?
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Graduate How to entangle two particles?
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Graduate Is the commutator of two operators always a scalar?
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Graduate Radio waves from an antenna using the propagator?
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Graduate Orthogonality of eigenstates and hermitian statement
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Graduate Can a Massless Photon create Mass?
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Graduate QM & Speed of Light: A Random Thinking
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Graduate What Is a Bell's Inequality Experiment with Entangled Photons?
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Graduate Do E and B Commute in Magnetic Field Expressions?
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Graduate What is the purpose of the analogies and equations used in the QM TV program?
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Graduate Hawking radiation temperature -- observer dependent?
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Graduate Why don't we get thrusted(pierced) inside solid floor.
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Graduate Velocity of Phase Wave in Vacuum - Contradicting Relativity?
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Graduate Is there any learning group for QFT?
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Graduate Understanding the Bell Inequality and its Impact on Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Are these quantum states equivalent in Hilbert space representation?
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Graduate Scale invaraince of renormalisation theory
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Graduate Should we describe protons and electrons in dar Matter in a different way?
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Graduate Does Measuring Two Entangled Photons at the Same Time Break the Laws of Physics?
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Graduate Charge dependence of operators in QED renormalization
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Graduate Calculating Particle-Antiparticle Rates in Vacuum Space w/ QT
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Graduate When is an electron in a superposition?
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Graduate Conservation of Energy with non-allowed states
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Graduate Electric & magnetic field of a photon in QM
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Graduate Pauli-villars regularization in simple phi^4 case
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Undergrad Problem about application of E = hv to white light
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Graduate How measurement in the double slit experiment affects result
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Graduate History of wave/particle duality
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Graduate Transition Moments and Selection Rules
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Graduate What is the current status of quantum darwinism ?
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Graduate General Uncertainty Relation -- Why drop anticommutator?
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Graduate Please explain the Ising model in a simpler way, thank you
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Graduate Systems with more than 1 wave function
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Graduate How many Feynman diagrams do I draw?
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Graduate Quantum Pigeonhole Effect: New Implications for Correlations
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Graduate A very basic question about Heisenberg Uncertainty
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Graduate What Happens to the Original Qubit's State After Moving It?
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Graduate Longitudinal polarization in Feynman photon propagator?
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Graduate Quantization of EM field in dielectric?
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Graduate How do wavenumber and position eigenstates relate in quantum mechanics?
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Graduate What Are Dirac Electrons and Their Role in Solid-State Physics?
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Graduate Why does infinite potential well give rise to standing wave?
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Graduate Can gravitational waves exhibit quantum superpositions?
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Graduate A question about the Hamiltonian of the fission of Uranium
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Graduate The impossibility of FTL information
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Graduate Quantum teleportation in the news
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Graduate Experimental Quantum Mechanics Texts?
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Graduate Someone know Bogoliubov spectrum?
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Graduate Proving [itex][a_k^\dagger, a_q^\dagger]=0[/itex]
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Graduate New Quantum Foundations Journal
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Graduate Heisenberg Picture Formalism: Rewriting Operators in Covariance
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Graduate How do we get from quantum mechanics to statistical mechanics?
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Graduate Simple question concerning Hermitian operators
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Graduate Taking the Fourier Transform of a potential
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Graduate QFT & QM: Spinors, NRQM & Dirac Field Explained
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Undergrad How does wave particle dulity work?
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Graduate Electron in 1D Box: classical or quantum at different temps
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Graduate Are Galaxies Beyond Our Visible Universe in Quantum Superposition?
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Graduate Quantum Chaos, Level spacing distr. in integrable system
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Dirac's QM - First Edition 1930 - 2 pages needed
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Graduate Ising model, Hiblert space, Hamiltonian
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