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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
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Graduate Two slit electron diffraction / observer
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Graduate Grand Canonical Ensemble: N operator problem
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Graduate Why Does Functional F Not Yield Expected Results in Merzbacher QM Exercise 9.8?
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Graduate Advice for first time studying Quantum Mechanics ?
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Graduate Lebesgue space Q & suggested readings
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Graduate Evaluating Integrals of Exponential Functions with Dirac Delta
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Graduate Quantum Imaging with Undetected Photons arXiv:1401.4318(quant phy)
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Graduate Can there be non-trivial IR fixed points in asymptotically free theories?
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Undergrad What are Einstein's 3 postulates for Photo electric effect?
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Graduate Need help with some aspects of Bell’s theorem
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Graduate SU(2): Get RHS from LHS of Expression
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Graduate Is the Born Rule the Key to Understanding Schrodinger's Cat Experiment?
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Graduate How do you know the change in ml for a transition?
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Graduate Analytical solution for bound state energies of infinite well
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Undergrad Theoretical 100% Light Reflection Room
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Graduate Fermi's Golden Rule Density of States
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Graduate Emuberable and Demumerable sets
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Graduate Angular Momentum: P.A.M Dirac QM Principles Explained
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Graduate Efficiency of non-linear optical device
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Graduate Proving the Isomorphism Property of the Spinor Map in SL(2,C) and SO(3,1)
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Graduate The simplest derivation of position operator for momentum space
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Graduate Understanding Scattering and Bound State Solutions in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate How Should I Think About the Dirac Equation
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Graduate Experimental Support of Shrodinger Equation
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Graduate Divergence of the Stress-Energy Tensor
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Graduate RQM vs QM ( relativistic quantum mechanics vs quantum mechanics)
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Graduate What Are the Most Accurate Theories in Quantum Physics?
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Graduate Understanding Traceless Proof for Gamma Matrices
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Graduate Stationary States vs General Solution
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Graduate Can the Double Slit Experiment Reveal Information About Parallel Dimensions?
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Undergrad Characteristic Spectrum and the K-alpha line
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Graduate The Quantum Computer and beamsplitter
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Graduate Deriving speed of light from QED
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Graduate Question from a 5 year old: Bell and Black Holes
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Graduate Expectation Value vs Probability Density
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Graduate Adjoint of Schrodinger Equation
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Graduate Why Can Electrons Tunnel Through Barriers in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Hopf Algebras in Quantum Groups
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Graduate Has the double-slit experiment been conducted with multiple observers?
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Graduate Interaction between light and hydrogen atom
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Graduate What is the difference between H and E in the equation Hψ = Eψ?
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Graduate Is Haag's Theorem Relevant for Solving QFT Problems?
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Graduate Missing h-bar in showing SHO in terms of ANHIL and CREA operators is correct
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Graduate On the Wave-Particle Duality property of light
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Graduate Coordinate space matrix elements <x|H|x'>. what are these?
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Graduate Why Does the Hopping Term in the Hubbard Model Project to Zero at Half-Filling?
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Graduate Probability of finding a particle [concept behind it]
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Graduate Requirement of Separability of Hilbert Space
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Graduate Calculating Fourier Transform in Circular Wells
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Graduate Uncertainty Principle mechanics
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Graduate Solutions of schrodinger equation contradicts HUP
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Graduate Pilot wave models and "no cross" rule
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Graduate Why does tracing out help in averaging over unobserved degrees of freedom?
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Graduate Formula of Heisenberg Uncertainty
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Graduate Stimulated Emission: De-exciting Electrons with Photons
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Graduate Smoothness of potential energy and powers of momentum
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Graduate Probability of Photoelectric Effect Occuring in the Context of Medical Imaging
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Graduate Determining bound states for delta function potential
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Graduate Change of Basis For Pauli Matrix From Z Diagonal to X Diagonal Basis
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Graduate Quantum vs. Classical Mechanic graphing
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Graduate Does the wave function really collapse into a state?
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Graduate Dirac gammology - dimension of the algebra
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Graduate Determinism in Coin Tosses: Does It Mean We Have Free Will?
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Graduate Meaning of Single Photon Interference Minima
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Graduate QM questions: MO theory orbital combination
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Graduate What are the Bound States for a Sum of Two Negative Delta-Function Potentials?
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Graduate Help to understand the state notation
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Graduate Schrödinger Equation in the classical limit
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Graduate Quarkonium: General Information
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Graduate Wavelength uncertainity for particle in a box
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Graduate Can an electron stand in the same place as a proton?
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Graduate Phase of Orbital/Wavefunctions in Hydrogen 2px
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Graduate That Heisenberg Uncertainity Principle
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Graduate Quantum Measurement Problem: Nature of Matter or Nature of Probability?
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Graduate Schrødinger equation deriving diff equation
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Graduate Understanding Device Identification of Non-Orthogonal Quantum States
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Graduate Identifying Projection Operators: Is Idempotence Enough?
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Undergrad What is the physical unit of teleport?
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Graduate Commutator problem (position, momentum)
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Graduate The Wave-Particle Duality of light and the laws of reflection
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Graduate If you have three things in a bra ket what does it mean?
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Graduate High energies during wave function "collapse"?
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Graduate Why does photons of a given frequency satisfy the Boltzmann distribution?
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Graduate Operators on infinite-dimensional Hilbert space
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Graduate What Is the Minimum Volume of Phase Space?
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Graduate Wave-particle duality at Macro scale?
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Graduate QM and Determinism: Can We Predict the Future?
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Graduate Help with solving for <f |H f >
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Graduate Unit Circle and Quantum Predictions [hidden variable model agrees with QM?]
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Undergrad Double bonds and energy level
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Graduate Neumark dilation and entanglement
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Undergrad Does the intrepretation affect the measurement?
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Graduate How does QED explain charge interaction in the macro world?
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Graduate Spin difference between entangled and non-entangled
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Undergrad Is the Energy Change in a Bohr Atom Always Equal to One Photon?
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Graduate Watching Electrons: Experiments in Feynman's Lectures
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Graduate Beam splitting experiment with single photon
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Graduate Dirac delta function identities
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Graduate Seeking opinion of others on quantum systems control and estimation theory
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