Quantum Physics Forum

Join in expert discussion on quantum physics. Quantum physics is the mathematical description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles. Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory.

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Undergrad Can I find a particle in two states simultaneously?

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Undergrad Analytical proof of LASER production

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Undergrad New Nobel Aspect contradicts himself on action at a distance bel

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Undergrad Predetermination in quantum theory and information theory

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Undergrad In Bell's Theorem, communication

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High School Will Quantum Entanglement Lead to a 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics?

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Graduate Many-Particle Wavefunction Question

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Undergrad Energy from quantum systems in an expanding universe?

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Graduate Concept of wavefunction and particle within Quantum Field Theory

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Undergrad Postive rays in cathode ray tube experiments?

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Graduate Why is this C-G coefficient always zero?

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Undergrad Wave packet experimental detection

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Graduate Does there exist a proof for these conjectures?

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High School What’s the necessity of the strong force?

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Undergrad About normalization of periodic wave function

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High School Is there another workable interpretation of the Bell Inequality?

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Undergrad How can gravitons have anti particles?

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Undergrad Why does the QFT Lagrangian not already use operators?

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Undergrad Is Planck's Law of Black-Body Accurate?

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Undergrad What sense does it make to "weigh" a Casimir cavity?

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Undergrad Einstein summation convention in QM

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Undergrad Has the Unruh Effect ever been observed?

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Undergrad Quantum events near a black hole

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Undergrad How Do Radio Antennas Function in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Time-dependent to time-independent Schrödinger equation

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Graduate What is a "transient" value in the Ising model?

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High School About infinity and all possibilities of Multiverse/Omniverse

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Undergrad Haag's Theorem: Explain Free Field Nature

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Undergrad Understanding Planck's Quantum of Action for Beginners

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Matrices Often Used in Quantum Computing

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Undergrad The CMB has a thermal black body spectrum

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Undergrad Polarization of photons quantum mechanically

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High School Understanding Waves, Particles and Probabilities

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Undergrad Does chaos amplify inherent quantum level randomness?

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Undergrad Experimenting with Spinor Rotations & Sign Changes

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Undergrad Operators in finite dimension Hilbert space

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Graduate What are the basic mathematical objects in QFT?

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Undergrad How does one compute the Fourier-Transform of the Dirac-Hamiltonian?

  • PhysicsRock
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Different Kinds of Quantum Computing Measurement Operators

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Undergrad Understanding No Energy Degeneracy in Sakurai's Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Realizing EIT with Pulsed Laser: Intensity, Duration & Frequency

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Undergrad Where does the QM creation operator get its energy?

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Undergrad Inner product - positive or positive semidefinite?

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Undergrad The Wavefunction when Mass is Much Greater than Planck's Constant

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Undergrad Wondering why quantum entanglement occurs

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Quantum Computing: Positive Operators are Hermitian

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Undergrad Why is the SE better than the KG equation for a hydrogen atom?

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High School Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and determinism

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High School Sinusoidal wave function of t and x

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Undergrad Vector operator acting on a ket gives a ket out of the state space

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High School Positive Definite Cartan Matrices in Quantum Physics

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Undergrad Bell's circuit beginner's question: Sampling alters, - what's normal?

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Undergrad What is so compelling in the superposition theorem?

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Undergrad Inner and Outer Product of the Wavefunctions

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Undergrad Understanding Wave Function Probabilities for a Free Particle

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Undergrad Entanglement and FTL signaling in professional scientific literature

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Undergrad How does atomic absorption spectroscopy work

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High School The relationship between the particle, the wave and the field

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Graduate Coherent quantization, the non-unitary case

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High School Is the probability of a quantum outcome ever zero such as with....

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Graduate Matrix representation of a unitary operator, change of basis

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High School QM concept of photon.... still a bit of a mystery today?

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Graduate Is there a lost information paradox for quantum physics?

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Graduate Question about stimulated Raman emission

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High School How does exchange of elementary particles result in a force?

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Undergrad Questions about Franck-Condon principle

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Undergrad When and why does an electron emit a photon?

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Graduate Probability flux integrated over all space is mean momentum?

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Undergrad Trying to Understand the 1928 article by Raman on Nature

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Undergrad Understanding Spin States in 2D Vector Spaces

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Undergrad Doubt on Morse potential and harmonic oscillator

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Undergrad With chips having 2 nm transistors, are we at the end of Moore's Law?

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Undergrad Counterfactual quantum computation on interferometer

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High School What is a non-local Hamiltonian?

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Undergrad Determining the Number of Points in the n-Space

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Graduate Can local conservation be verified experimentally?

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Undergrad Has Google Truly Achieved Quantum Supremacy?

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Undergrad Definition of functional derivative

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Graduate Quantum Properties of Quasi Static Electric Fields

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High School What sort of an experiment can refute QM or QFTs?

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Undergrad Is the Energy Expectation Value Always Real and Above a Minimum Potential?

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High School Is the concept of "potential" just a mathematical model?

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Undergrad Quantum computation and entropy

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High School Questions about the position of the particle

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High School Why do subatomic particles change what they do when observed?

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High School Shor's algorithm on a Google Sheet

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High School Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle a result of measurement inadequacies?

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Undergrad Interpreting ##A^{\mu}(x)|0\rangle## and ##\psi (x) |0\rangle##

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Graduate What are the unusual absorption features observed in the EIT signal of 85Rb gas?

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Undergrad Black hole singularity vs. quantum mechanics

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Graduate Current Status of Electromagnetic Triviality

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High School Particle Function? Particle Equation?

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Graduate In What Space Does Quantum Spin Take Place

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Undergrad Partition function for continuous spectrum

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Graduate Energy Levels and Wave Functions of Identical Particle Systems

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Graduate Symmetry & Invariance of Pions: π+, π0, π− and Other Mesons Explained

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Undergrad What happens to the other particle in an entanglement state?

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Undergrad Can entanglement occur in distant galaxies according to NRQM and QFT?

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Undergrad Majorana zero modes observed by Microsoft?

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Undergrad Photon interference and beamforming

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