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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

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Z factor in renormalization disappeared?
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Need help regarding transition dipole moment
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Commutator of function of operators
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How Does Quantum Entanglement Work in Physics?
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There is only one electron in the universe
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Position Eigenstates: Measurement & Imperfect Performance
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Are shell electrons accompanied by virtual neutrinos?
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What is the solution to the shifting of the wall problem in quantum mechanics?
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Momentum and energy eigenvalues
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Scattering Within Rectangular Waveguide With A Step Obstacle
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Quantum Fluctuations and Big Bang
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What happens with non orthogonal eigenvectors
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How to Solve the Dirac Equation for a Two-Particle System?
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Momentum cutoff equivalent to discretizing space?
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The Double Slit Experiemts & Half Silver Mirror Question?
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A few conceptual questions on time evolution of quantum states
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Susskind about QM - Reversed Time - Experiment?
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Application of the Fokker-Planck equation
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Is SU(2) the key to understanding quantum numbers and symmetry?
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Eigenfunctions corresponding to a particular energy value
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Spin precession vs alignment in magnetic field
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Does Energy Determine the Spread of Matter in Space?
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Quadrupole Decay Rate E2 Angular Dependence
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Are Photons Capable of Traveling Faster Than Light?
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(A bit for fun) Putting a Human in Superposition
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Hermite representation for integrals?
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Complete positivity and quantum dynamics
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Spin-Orbit Interaction - Meaning and Some Mathematics
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Is There an Optimal Resonant Frequency for Light Oscillations?
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Entanglement and physical spacelike connection
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What is wave of photon? oscillation of something in space?
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Some questions about commutation relation
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Zeeman Effect, Angular Momentum States, Dipole vs No Dipole.
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Intro Quantum Mechanics: Neils Bohr Model Explained
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Waveform of Photons: Current Thinking & Analysis
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Atomic excitation via photon absorption
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Why Doesn't the Electromagnetic Force Boson Have a Charge?
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Relation between QED photon frequency and classical EM frequency
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Dirac on Spreading Wave Packets
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What happens to infinitesimal time in path integral
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Can We Control the Higgs Boson and Its Mechanism for Mass?
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The state of two identical bosons
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Explaining Spin-Orbit Coupling: Energy Levels & Sub-Levels
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Stern-gerlach with hydrogen atoms
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How to interpret rotational, electronic, vibrational energy levels
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Atomic Number & Orbital Energy: Explained
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Electrons in s-robital shielding outer electrons
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How Can I Write an Operator in the Coupled and Uncoupled Basis?
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Confused about wavefunctions and kets
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NASA's New Space Engine: SRF Resonating Cavities
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The physical world cannot be a single history
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Electron shells in atoms: WHY do they exist as they do?
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What is the experimental basis for Einstein's conclusion on the Helium atom?
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Is There an Error in the Third Dirac Current Equation?
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Observer vs Natural phenomenon
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Electron orbital velocity in hydrogen atom?
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Can a two-qubit state be proven to be non-entangled using contraposition?
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Any ideas on this hypothesis concerning the universe?
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Simplifying expression with gamma matrix and slashes
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Understanding the Born Rule for Continuous Particle Position Measurement"
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Which type of wave does de Broglie's theory suggest for matter?
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Question about Energy Interactions.
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Do AB and BA always exist in matrix multiplication?
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Differentiation between massless Bosons
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Stern-Gerlach Experiment (spatial consistency of the magnetic moment)
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Do wavefunctions always need to be normalised?
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Positrons are electrons traveling backward in time?
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Point in Space: Classical Math & Recent Physics
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History and origin of amplitude summation in QFT
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Quantum vacuum in proximity of matter
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Can an electron be in more than two places at once?
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Separation of the centre of mass motion
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Relation between the spinor and wave function formalisms
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No drama quantum electrodynamics? (was: Local realism ruled out?)
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What is <x_1-x_2> for two particles in a 1-D harmonic oscillator
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Correlation functions and Ward identities
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Brainfarting reading Griffiths QM (small step in solving Hydrogen atom
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Non-dimensionalization of Schrodinger equation
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Basic question about equations of Quantum field theory (QFT)
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Radioactive Decay Experiment Ideas | Shielding Variables
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How Does a Magnetic Field Influence Positronium States?
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Measurement Problem & Objectivity
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Remotely changing superconductor levitation height
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Is Dirac's Definition of the Quantum Poisson Bracket Logical?
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Best books for computational quantum mechanics?
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Exam-information math.-qm.-phys
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Eigenvectors of this Hamiltonian
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The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?
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Fourier analysis and continuous spectra
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Can I delete a thread on Lef In Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics?
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Massless Fermions: Physics & Existence
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What is a quantum harmonic oscillator
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What is the significance of matrix elements of vectors in quantum mechanics?
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What is Characteristic Length?
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Quantum Physics: Double Slit Experiment
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A Little Question On Identical Particles
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Separable Hilbert space's postulate
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What is the INNER QUANTUM number ?
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Observing Particle Annihilation: How Anti-Particles Affect Universe Formation
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Can single photons be made coherent through entanglement and manipulation?
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