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.

Threads

Graduate Variations of double slit experiment

  • igorcov
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

High School Finding free access to classic physics papers by Einstein and Hawking

  • Rhydo
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Can Pauli's Exclusion Principle be Explained? A Decade Later

  • esmeralda4
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Why in scattering processes q^2 is negative?

  • Mesmerized
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Question; double-slit and wavefunction relationship

  • James S Saint
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18

Graduate Virtual particles inside black holes

  • Daddo0711
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Langevin to Fokker-planck? Uh oh

  • JVanUW
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Ginsparg Applied Conformal Field Theory

  • physicus
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Hello my first post more of a philosophical question if anything

  • zackness123
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Why Are Wave Functions Additive in Quantum Mechanics?

  • freddyfish
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Can someone explain to me the wave theory and quantum theory.

  • zackness123
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

High School Where did the sun's absorbed radiation come from as a black body?

  • ehabmozart
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Useage of the term field in QFT

  • kith
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Undergrad Me not falling through the ground and Pauli's Exclusion Principle

  • Swimmingly!
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Quantum Physics from Classical Physics with an epistemic restriction

  • yoda jedi
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate How Do I Find the Energy of a Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with Bosonic Operators?

  • ozlemathph
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Is vacuum having any temperature.?

  • aditya23456
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Proving linear combinations of Schrödinger solutions are also solutions

  • freddyfish
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Hermitian operators = values of variables

  • arlesterc
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Energy transfer from photon to an electron - Compton vs Photoelectric

  • kapitan90
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Deutsch and Hayden on locality

  • martinbn
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate Complex numbers from unitarity from information conservation?

  • friend
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate What are the eigenstates of quantum fields?

  • Lapidus
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16

Graduate I have never seen a Grassmann Number

  • the_pulp
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Can We Accurately Describe the Universe with One Giant Wave Function?

  • PSarkar
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Graduate Energy/particle number uncertainty in a laser beam

  • Sonderval
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Is probability a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics?

  • juzzy
  • · Replies 76 ·
3
Replies
76

Graduate Some basic misunderstanding in Quantum Mechanics

  • junhui.liao
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Gluon Scattering - Colored Feynman Rules for Yang Mills Theory

  • maverick280857
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Can a electron be stationary.?

  • aditya23456
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Why can information not be transmitted via phase velocity?

  • San K
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Probability density versus radial distribution function

  • ishchayill
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Superconductivity by quantum tunneling?

  • Stanley514
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Sign Convention For Momentum Operators

  • Septim
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Will this anology for zero-point energy work?

  • Ger
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate What's the color of Hawking radiation?

  • Warp
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Why is the center of mass energy linked to the parameter \mu?

  • physicus
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Double slit experiment at home

  • shantanu_l
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Mathematical Foundations of the Relativistic Theory of Quantum Gravity

  • AlexKid
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Question: Early history of QM

  • patrickd
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Does Hamilton's principle follow from the Feynman formulation of QM?

  • Jano L.
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Phase operator in quantum optics

  • kith
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate How would this universe be if there's NO UNCERTAINITY PRINCIPLE

  • aditya23456
  • · Replies 29 ·
Replies
29

Graduate A followup to my previous question

  • Fiziqs
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Do subatomic particles have a defined size?

  • alvarogz
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Double Slit Experiment and Quantum Eraser

  • DylanLou
  • · Replies 55 ·
2
Replies
55

Graduate Hiesenberg uncertainty principle, h or hbar?

  • rash92
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate How to evaluate the commutator of direct product?

  • PRB147
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Net momentum of gamma rays from complex multi-stage collision chain

  • UltrusViderat
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Why are some materials transparent?

  • center o bass
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Difference between classical wave function and quantum wave function

  • Casco
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Infrared spectroscopy and symmetry

  • Chemist20
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Why is the spin in a mirror image opposite?

  • nonequilibrium
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Why doesn't the energy come out right in the Dirac Equation?

  • Xezlec
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Casimir Effect within a Circular Topography

  • chords
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Replies
2

Undergrad A free electron in a total vacuum

  • Bastian74
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Mach-Zehnder interferometer with unequal path lengths

  • naffin
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Number of photons in a mode (in a blackbody)

  • dydxforsn
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate What are the loopholes in entanglement swapping?

  • San K
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate Lorentz transform of a scalar in QM

  • geoduck
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Why does Lagrangian density depend only on first derivatives?

  • bigbigtheory
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Weak interactions: I know why they're weak, but why are they slow?

  • nonequilibrium
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Square shape wave packet spreading

  • youngurlee
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Different between L^2 and L in Hydrogen atom

  • chunhui219
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Applications of Invariant Theory to Quantum Physics

  • timb00
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Variation Method for Higher Energy States

  • aim1732
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate How does Planck's blackbody law follow from the radiation formula?

  • robertjford80
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Fine structure constant and energy scale

  • asimov42
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Cut-off distance parameter in inelastic electron tunneling current

  • Huor Earfalas
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate The electric dipole approximation

  • spaghetti3451
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Energy Emission: Electrons vs Protons

  • scientifico
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Is the number of cycles in a wave related to the uncertainty in the wavelength?

  • Infrasound
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Early annihilation of antimatter

  • Jared409
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate On the use of Hilbert Spaces to represent states

  • the_pulp
  • · Replies 55 ·
2
Replies
55

Undergrad Does a white shirt weight more

  • ahuberpsu
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Can The Free Electrons Be Polarized?

  • wantommy
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate The mechanics of calculating Reduced Density Matrices

  • QITStudent
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Entanglement in QFT: Free Particle Decay

  • LarryS
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate QED Explanation of Force Between Motionless Particles

  • jjustinn
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Transformation of observables by permutation

  • buttolo
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate How photon is force carrier of electromagnetic force in macroscopic level.?

  • aditya23456
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Why is heisenberg uncertainty not a limit of technology?

  • danphan323
  • · Replies 38 ·
2
Replies
38

Graduate Hydrogen Atom in Uniform Electric Field

  • Frank0
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Instant communication with a modified ZWM apparatus?

  • al onestone
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Graduate Redundancy of Virtual Particles Borrowing Energy

  • e2m2a
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Graduate QFT w/ Negative Mass: Spin 0 vs Spin 1/2

  • nonequilibrium
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate What branch of mathematics to study to understand Quantum Mechanics?

  • Buzzworks
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate Does the Dirac equation predict the same hydrogen spectral lines as Schrödinger?

  • foobar
  • · Replies 37 ·
2
Replies
37

Graduate A particle in a 2d circle with potential

  • Bokul
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How to find your original timeline if decisions send you to random realities

  • Raavenous
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate What types of particles have a higher probability of tunnelling?

  • idea2000
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Entanglement, Entropy and Energy

  • kirk1729
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Single Electron D-slit Interference Experiment

  • Xverse
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Rigorous Quantum Mechanics text or online

  • danjordan
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16

Graduate Converting electron volts and Boltzmann's constant to atomic units

  • brydustin
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Square of a hermitian operator in matrix form

  • Arijun
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Spin of a quickly moving electron

  • Adam Lewis
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Did Neil de Grasse Tyson contradict himself on general relativity's complexity?

  • robertjford80
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Whats potential energy of a electron left in free space outside atom.?

  • aditya23456
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7