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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Concept and theories of Quantum Physics
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High School Wave Basics: What Is Wave, Phase & Velocity?
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Graduate Time Energy Uncertainty Question
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Graduate Variation on Quantum cross covariance and CHSH
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Graduate Did I understand the double slit experiment correctly?
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Graduate Fusion Due to Gravitation in Bosonic Atoms
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Graduate Help with deriving the Casimir Effect?
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Graduate Is Decoherence a Continuous Process?
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Graduate Hawking Radiation and Entanglement
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Graduate Hydrogen Atom orbital and quantum number
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Graduate What happens when an object approaches an event horizon?
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Graduate Black Body Molecular Absorption
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Graduate Quick question about integrating limits in QM problems
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Graduate Reality of the Quantum State: A Stronger Ψ-ontology Theorem
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Graduate Can Energy Equal Mass if c=1 in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Exchange symmetry and addition of angular momentum
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Graduate Photodissociation of Diatomic Molecules
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Graduate Sudden perturbation, particle in a box, ground state
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Graduate QM prediction violating Bell’s inequality
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Graduate Spin parity and attractive/repulsive forces
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Graduate Determine if System State is Pure or Mixed?
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Graduate Normalization of ground state "1/2hw"
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Graduate Light speed and uncertanty principle
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Graduate Observing Particles: Is Consciousness the Factor?
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Graduate Question about creation and annihilation operators?
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Graduate A good quntum mechanics book to review before grad school
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Graduate Method for deduce Schrödinger Equation
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Graduate Dirac Equation Charge Density
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Graduate Spin-Orbit interaction in nucleus' rest frame
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Graduate Simple quastion about superposition
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity and the Concept of the Universe as a Co
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Graduate Help with Heisenberg's "isospin" Hamiltonian
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Graduate Quantum entanglement: where is the pair?
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Graduate Experiment from Einstein Bohr debate
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Graduate Position & Momentum: Understanding Expectation Values
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Graduate Quantum Teleportation: Nucleus and Standard Model
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Graduate Delayed ChoiceQuantum Eraser: what about decision?
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Graduate How strong are fluid experiments in restoring determinism?
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Graduate Parity violation on macroscopic scale
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Graduate What is the suitable unitary operator for a rotating frame?
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Graduate Can Dumbbell-Shaped Orbitals Be Experimentally Confirmed?
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Graduate Density Matrix for Spin 1/2 particle in a magnetic field
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Graduate What is potential barrier against the photon penetration
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Undergrad The Casimir Effect: Explaining Exotic Matter
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement - proven?
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Graduate Observer Effect: Predetermined Change When Observed?
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Graduate Conservation of energy and quantum weirdness
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Graduate Randomness of radioactive decay
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Graduate Why does i-epsilon prescription not cure spin 1 propagator
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Graduate Entanglement and event horizon
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Graduate Can the Displacement Operator Rotate a Photonic State in Phase Space?
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Graduate Microcanonical ensemble density matrix
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Graduate Question about the no-cloning theorem
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Graduate First order correction of wavefunction in degenerate perturbation
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Graduate "Topological" properties of photons?
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Graduate What are the problems with the Orch-Or Consciousness Theory?
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Graduate S-matrix structure of the lightest particle
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Graduate Extracting ground state in path integral
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Graduate Quick question regarding a step in a bra ket derivation
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Undergrad Two slit experiment at home and interference
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Graduate How to trace over spinor indices?
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Graduate Creating a Quantum Circuit for Measuring X⊗Z, Z⊗X, & Y⊗Y Simultaneously
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Graduate Deriving Tanabe Sugano diagram
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and Einstein's theory of relativity
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Graduate Validity of perturbation theory
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Graduate A question about Matrix Mechanics
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Graduate Understanding 1PI Vertex and Self-Energy Conventions in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate How to Calculate Wavefunction for Arbitrary Time?
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment: Pattern Variations
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Graduate A variation of the Bell experiment
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Graduate Classical Circular Polarization vs. Photon Spin Eigenstates
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Graduate Viability of particle in a box modeling
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Graduate Ket and Bra with the momentum j,m
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Graduate Polariton Vortices Created from Laser
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Undergrad Double Slit Experiment: History & First Time Made by Electrons
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Graduate Expectation value of a product of hermitian operators
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Graduate Vacuum Fluctuations and a Preferred Frame
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Graduate Orbital angular momentum projection
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Graduate Long distance quantum tunneling
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Graduate Quantum Physics beginner books?
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Graduate How to get the conserved quantities of a integrable quantum system?
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Graduate Is Virtual Wave-Particle Duality a Misconception in Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Understanding Eigen Functions: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Vacuum port in optics, Casimir effect, fluctuations of vacuum or electrons.
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Normalization Constant for Radial Wave Functions?
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Graduate Question about the best method to use for finding wavefunctions and eigenvalues
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Graduate How Do Particles Interact in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Trouble with Hermitian operators?
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Graduate Zero from which the energy is measured
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Graduate Hermite and Legendre polynomials
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Graduate Vertex corrections 1-loop order Yukawa theory
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Graduate Path Integral From Heisenberg Uncertainty?
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Graduate The relationship of orbital hybridization between quantum mechanics
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Graduate Wave Particle Duality & Uncertainty Principle: Which Came First?
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Graduate Derivation of Planck Radiation Formula
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Graduate Pauli exclusion and superposition states
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Graduate Does Quantum Physics Suggest the Universe Requires a Mind?
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Graduate The Uncertainty Principle Uncertainty
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Graduate Particle deflection in a Stern-Gerlach experiment
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Graduate Quantum wave destruction question
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