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Quantum Interpretations and Foundations

Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality
Graduate Concerning spherical potential wells
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Graduate Absorption of a photon by atom - where does the energy go?
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Graduate When can you apply Ehrenfest's theorem?
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Graduate Mathematical description of Hilbertspace
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Graduate The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field
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Graduate What Makes Single Photon Quantum Electrodynamics So Complex?
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Graduate TDSWE: Deriving Time Dependent Solutions from TISWE
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Graduate Green Function SHO - Reading Materials & Math Background
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Graduate Plane wave expansion of massive vector boson
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Graduate Spinors: Relativistic vs Non-Relativistic?
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Graduate Concerning spherical Bessel and Neumann functions
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Graduate Solutions for ammonia as two-state system
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Graduate Can You Solve These Commutation Integrals?
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Graduate QFT renormalization and Haag's theorem
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Graduate Quantum Vacuum Plasma Drive Potentially Confirmed by NASA
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Graduate Ground State and Excited State Wave Function - Explained
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Graduate Wave Function from ground to excited
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Graduate Infinitely large quantum number
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Graduate What is the precise mathematical claim in Haag's theorem?
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Graduate What Is the Probability Density of a Non-Wave Electron in a Box?
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Graduate Physics of Quantum Entanglement
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Graduate Derivation of the CHSH inequality
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Graduate I have difficulty understanding quantum physics
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Graduate Quantum entanglement, is it real?
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Graduate How would I transmit 1 photon?
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Graduate Wavefunction normalization vs 1/√(|x| )
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Graduate Measurement Theory - Quantum Mechanics Q&A by VVS
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Graduate Can the Schrödinger Equation be Extended to Four Dimensions?
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Graduate Negative kinetic energy value for an electron
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Graduate Can 3 photons bunch, Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect?
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Graduate Creation of matter and energy out of nothing.
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Graduate How Does the Big Bang Contribute to Matter Creation?
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Undergrad How did Paul Dirac find the equation for antimatter?
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Graduate What's the problem with bremsstrahlung?
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Graduate Axiomatization of quantum mechanics and physics in general ?
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Graduate Commuting operators and Direct product spaces
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity: Explaining the Singularity
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Graduate Is There a Connection Between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness?
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Graduate Weak measurement with post selection
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Graduate Numerically solutions with periodic boundary conditions
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Graduate Problem interpreting course notes - 3D wave equation
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Graduate Is Vacuum a Dynamic Entity with Hidden Matter and Energy?
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Graduate Quantum physics without probability?
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Graduate Singularities in the harmonic oscillator propagator
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Graduate What is the Connection Between Hawking Radiation and Dark Matter?
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Graduate Proving Orthogonality by Induction in Second Quantization for Bosonic Systems
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Graduate Density matrix formalism and Poincaré invariance
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Graduate QFT Corrections to Electron's g-Factor: Implications for Spin Symmetry
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Graduate Schrodinger equation with unknown potential function
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Graduate Quantum Measurement: Sharp vs Unsharp - How to Determine?
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Graduate Describing 3-component spin 1 with a 4-Vector
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics of charge-monopole system
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Graduate Regions containing different states in a simple field or substance
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Graduate Translating cumulative rotations into Pauli operators
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Graduate Triple-slit experiment with 2 identical sources
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Graduate Principal Values & Fourier Transforms in Quantum Physics
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Graduate 3DAnisotropic oscillator in Spherical Harmonic basis-States with L_z=0
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Graduate The finite size of the nucleon
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Graduate Wavefunction of quantzed field states
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Graduate Understanding Peskin Eq 3.50-3.53 and Dirac Spinor
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Graduate Question about the solutions of the dirac equation
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Graduate Particles as the quanta of fields
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Graduate Water molecule, bucket question
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Undergrad Could a maser be used to send information
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Graduate Derivation of Schwinger function in Di Francesco
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Graduate Implication of Hardy's ontological excess baggage theorem
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Graduate Free Physics Lectures: QM Lecture Notes & Linear Algebra
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Graduate Choosing topic for reserach and presentation
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics Help: Annihilator & Creation Operators
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Graduate What Free Programs Exist for Simulating Multi-Particle Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Quantum Hall Effect: Hamiltonian & Finding Solutions
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Graduate C and h are not fundamental constants?
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Graduate What is a Condensate? An Introduction for Laymen
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Graduate Implications of an arbitrary phase for momentum operator
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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle question (again)
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Graduate Does Adding a Constant to the Hamiltonian Affect Quantum System Dynamics?
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Graduate Disconnect With Inequality Realism Assumption And Bells' Lambda
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Graduate Orbital angular momentum problem
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Graduate Why do multiparticle states present continuous in spectral function?
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Graduate Derivation of Planck's law and the shape of the cavity
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Graduate Methods of keeping photons entangled for extended periods?
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Graduate What kinds of divergences for a given interaction
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Graduate Eigenvalues and operators, step the involves switching and substitutin
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Graduate Quantum Trajectories: Bubble Chamber & Detector Meaning
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Graduate Is the Order of Bras and Kets Important in Equations?
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Undergrad Electron Transition & Photon Emission in Hydrogen Atom
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Graduate Best book reference for studying quantum physics
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Undergrad Where does the electron gain its energy from to keep orbiting?
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Graduate Quantum computation and entanglement
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Graduate Taking the zero entry of the following
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Undergrad Ultraviolet Catastrophe in simple language
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Graduate The wave function and the Shrodinger equation
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Undergrad Ideas for QM undergrad research project
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Graduate As unified electromagnetism derived c, what concepts were unified to h
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Graduate Hamilton's equation from heisenberg equation of motion
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High School Understanding Covalent Bonds: Why Do They Hold Molecules Together?
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High School What Is Beta Decay?
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Graduate Reasoning in Deriving the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
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Graduate Differentiating semi-classical Kubo trans. correlation functions wrt t
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Graduate Sum of spin for chiral particles?
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