Quantum Physics Forum

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Graduate Trying to understand Quantum Entanglement, String Theory, and the BB

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Graduate Conservation of L^2 and Lz in central potential

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Graduate What is the hardest question to ask a quantum physicist?

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Graduate Do you use QM in Conjunction With QED/QCD?

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Graduate Solution to the dirac equation and the square root of a matrix?

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Undergrad Double slit and psychology? General question.

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Graduate Born rule for degenerate eigenvalue

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Graduate Mass of Electron: What is True?

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Graduate Can a Charge to Planck Mass Ratio Be Validly Calculated?

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Graduate Some questions on planck constant

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Graduate Lonely Hydrogen Atom in Space (casimir)

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Graduate I have no idea what 'Normalize'/'Normalization' means Help please?

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Graduate Standing Waves: Particles & Atomic/Molecular Orbitals

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Graduate Can Entangled Particles Be Used for Quantum Communication?

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Graduate Do virtual particle pairs interact gravitationally?

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Graduate Generator of Rotations and commutation relationships

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Graduate Building the CRT's for the Double Slit Experiment

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Graduate From unitary operator to hamiltonian

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Graduate Understanding Unitary Operator Evolution in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Reconciling DeBroglie and Dirac?

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Graduate Does the Schrodinger Equation Describe Particles Popping In/Out of Existence?

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Graduate Lande g-factor and total angular momentum conservation

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Graduate Is nothing an unstable thing that violates HUP?

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Graduate What would you consider to be the most quintessential equations of QM?

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Graduate Proving gamma matrix transposition identity

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Graduate Don't understand continuous basis

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Graduate How to Derive the Chern-Simons Contribution to the Effective Action?

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Graduate Representations of the Lorentz group

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Graduate Quantum eraser input polarization

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Graduate Building a quantum computer from living parts (FMO proteins)

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Graduate Proof of traceless gamma matrices

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Graduate Relation between quantum computer and quantum field theory?

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Graduate How many combinations are possible with the four quantum numbers?

  • San K
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Graduate Does CP Violation in Weak Interaction Suggest Perpetuum Mobile of Second Type?

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Graduate How much mathematics do I need to know to start Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Charge conjugation in second quantization

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Graduate What really is a Weak Measurement?

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Graduate Is more than 99.9% of any object is just empty space?

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Graduate A Question about Spin Induced Magnetic Moment

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Graduate Sakurai proof Wigner-Eckart theorem

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Graduate Explanation from Part of Griffith's text (Differential Equation)

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Graduate Imaginary eigenvalues of gamma matrices

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Graduate Velocity and Phase Velocity of Matter Wave

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Graduate How do we measure the position of a particle?

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Graduate Independent fields in euclidean space

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Graduate Photoelectric effect with n photons

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Graduate Detection loophole vs. Spooky action at a distance

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Graduate Higgs boson and the future of quantum phyiscs

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Graduate String Theory: Is Energy a Physical Entity?

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Graduate Just recently I discovered the world of the superfluids and I am

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Undergrad Schrodinger Equation, Potential

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Graduate Why does the Planck hypothesis give average energy kT for low frequencies?

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Graduate Is the law of noncontradiction still applicable in quantum physics?

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Graduate Adding energy to confined particles

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Graduate Exploring the Difference between KT and Ferro-Para Phase Transitions

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Graduate Exclusion principles for fermions and bosons

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Graduate Electron/Hole Effective Mass vs Solar Cell efficiency

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement at the Big Bang

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Graduate Proving the Poisson summation formula (like a physicist)

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Graduate Gauge invariance requires gauge bosons, why not for neutral fermions?

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Graduate How do photons interact in magnetism and how is the force felt

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Graduate How to understand the standard momentum introduced in Weinberg's QFT

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High School Double Slit Experiment: Home Reproduction Guide

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Graduate Why does Klein-Gordon's equation not obey quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What does Quantum entanglement tell about Causality?

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Graduate What are the units for spectral energy density according to the Planck Law?

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Graduate Does New Research Disprove Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate QM & CTCs: Examining the Possibility of Closed Time-Like Curves

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Graduate Experimental violation of HUP in its original form

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Graduate 2 scientists think they have defeated the uncertainty principle

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Graduate Question about quantum physics and possible shortcomings

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Undergrad Question with electromagnetic radiation

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Graduate Fermion Anticommutation Relations (nightmare)

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Graduate Learning path to quantum spin Hall effect after integer QHE

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Graduate Rationale of the position operator?

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Graduate Gaussian wave packet k' term in time evolution

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High School Normalizing Functions: Basics & Examples

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Graduate Wave function of a flame or fire

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Graduate Wave Function Collapse: Quantum Mechanics by Griffith

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Graduate Ehrenfest Theorem - Does Classical Mechanics Need Big Particles?

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Graduate Can wave particle duality be viewed at macroscopic scale ?

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Graduate What happens when we insert detectors in a delayed choice experiment?

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Graduate Sakurai 1st edition vs. Sakurai 2nd edition?

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Graduate What is the speed of light doing in the spin half hamiltonian?

  • center o bass
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Graduate Who is puzzled by the delayed choice?

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Graduate Lorentz invariance of [itex] E_p \delta ({\bf p}- {\bf q}) [/itex]

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Graduate Model of the universe/quantum computing

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Graduate Confusion about Wave / Particle Behaviour of X-Rays

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Graduate Quantum vacuum plasma thruster

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Graduate Should relativity affect the uncertainty principle?

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Graduate Radiation from a continually-accelerating electron

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Graduate Quarter Wave Plate: 45 & 135 Degree Polarization Output

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Graduate Entanglement, classical correlation, and questions about superluminal signalling

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Graduate Unitary equivalence of QM (not for energy?)

  • center o bass
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Graduate Problem with the two-slit experiment

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Graduate Simultaneously Measuring Entangled Particles

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Graduate Can the future affect the past

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Graduate A very basic question about the the origin of quantum levels

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Undergrad Simplified spacetime and Emc2 vs Quantum Theory

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Graduate Quantum Entanglement: The Spooky Connection Between Particles

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