Quantum Physics Forum

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High School Can probability waves be "focused"?

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Undergrad How can we observe and measure interacting vacuum?

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Undergrad How should we interpret the Möbius-strip image of spinors?

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Undergrad Why ##S_z|+\rangle=\frac{\hbar}{2}|+\rangle##

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Undergrad Frequency of EM waves in classical and quantum physics

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High School What proof do we have of wave functions?

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Undergrad Bell's inequality and locality constraints in probability theory

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Graduate Combining quantum Zeno effect and delayed choice eraser in beryllium trap

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High School Unitarity in GR+QFT: Obeying Full QG Model?

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High School Wave-Particle Duality -- When is it a wave and when is it a particle?

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Undergrad What is the difference between charge and force carriers?

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Undergrad X-ray fluorescence photons question

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Graduate Measurements at the LHC and field collapse in quantum field theory

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High School Can entangled particle measurements transmit information faster than light?

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Graduate Counting on a computing system

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Undergrad Where do these time derivatives of Pauli matrices come from?

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Undergrad What Is the Diameter of a Photon?

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Graduate Feynman propagator for a simple harmonic oscillator

  • Glenn Rowe
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Undergrad CQED understanding superconducting qbits circuits

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Undergrad Setting up a double-slit experiment with which-way detection

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High School Are there any empirical tests for the GRW extension of quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Entropic effects of the Uncertainty Principle?

  • oknow
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Undergrad Young's Double Slit Experiment: Is it Possible?

  • Heidi
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Graduate What Are the Dimensions of Hilbert Space Elements in Quantum Mechanics?

  • Ravi Mohan
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Undergrad What is the spin-boson model for decoherence in a Penning trap?

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Quantization of the electromagnetic field

  • Konte
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Graduate Perturbative Renormalization in Phi 4 Theory

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Undergrad Angular momentum of an atom within a rigid body in motion

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High School Peculiar View of Density Matrices: Is There a Problem?

  • Heidi
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Graduate Loop Quantum gravity or String theory?

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Undergrad Frontiers in Physics had 2 papers quest. Bell's theorem, any othrs?

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Undergrad Does entanglement interfere with causality?

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Undergrad Physical interpretation of this coherent state

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Undergrad How should I think about decoherence?

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Continuous Spectrum and Energy levels of Electrons (Energy Bands)

  • ktmsud
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High School Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled

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Graduate Renormalization with hard cutoff of a loop diagram with single vertex

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High School Quantum Decoherence: What Happens to Other Outcomes?

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Undergrad Matrix elements of scalars under parity inversion

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Graduate Why is gauge invariance important in quantum mechanics?

  • Heidi
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Graduate Degenerate Perturbation Theory: Correction to the eigenstates

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Graduate In QFT, what is the momentum of a created particle?

  • Christian Thom
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Undergrad Are all (pure) states physically realizable?

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Undergrad Blue lights (LEDs) consume more power than red (and green)?

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Undergrad When does an even potential give both even and odd solutions to Schrodinger's Eqn?

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Undergrad A thought experiment concerning determinism in quantum mechanics

  • Spathi
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Insights Properties and classification of baryon particles

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Undergrad Interference of signal photons entangled with idlers

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Undergrad Virtual Photons: The Long-Distance Repulsion of Electrons

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Undergrad How are good quantum numbers related to perturbation theory?

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Undergrad A popular explanation of Bell's inequalities

  • Spathi
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Undergrad Does putting a hydrogen atom in a box mix angular momentum states?

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High School Is the weak nuclear force attractive or repulsive or both?

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Undergrad Feynman diagram for photon-photon scattering γ+γ→γ+γ

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Undergrad How do raising and lowering operators work in quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Klein paradox in the massless case

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Undergrad How does QM explain that we see electrons circulating in a magnetic field?

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Non-relativistic limit of Klein Gordon field

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Graduate Spontaneous and stimulated emission in Planck's radiation law

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High School Is matter a particular form of energy?

  • CoolMint
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Undergrad Entanglement, Mixed or Pure State?

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Undergrad Reversing a series of polarizers

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Insights The 7 Basic Rules of Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Cyclic rotation of the cross product involving derivation

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High School What is actually spinning in quantum spin?

  • Stevexyz
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Undergrad A Question on Spinors in a High school textbook

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Undergrad Does gravity exist at the quantum level if it's caused by time dilation?

  • curiouschuck
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High School Is the highest frequency possible the inverse of Planck time?

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Graduate Mixed versus Pure Quantum States for the Singlet

  • knowwhatyoudontknow
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Graduate Complete characterization of local monomials

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Undergrad Macroscopic quantum entanglement?

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Graduate Active and Passive Transformations Confusion

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High School Two questions about Black body radiation

  • vijayantv
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Undergrad Physical proof of a simulation?

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Undergrad Quantum Spin - If It’s Not Spinning, What Is It Doing?

  • BadgerBadger92
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Undergrad Notation of the approximation in quantum phase estimation algorithm

  • Peter_Newman
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High School Q - Double slit experiment, delayed slit selection observation

  • Matt711
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Graduate Orthogonality of variations in Faddev-Popov method for path integral

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Graduate Weyl Fermion in an infinite well

  • Paul159
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Undergrad Significance of double slit experiment?

  • LightningInAJar
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Graduate Does quantizing metric fields mean quantum gravity?

  • Haorong Wu
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Undergrad Derivation of Schrodinger equation (chicken and egg problem?)

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Undergrad How indistinguishable are photons?

  • Killtech
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Undergrad Can a static EM field consist of photons?

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Undergrad Interferences (with diagonal density matrix)

  • Heidi
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Undergrad How to Find the Berry Phase in Slowly Varying Systems

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Undergrad Why we know average speed of single photon equal speed of EM wave?

  • fxdung
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High School Polarization of a single photon

  • Sophrosyne
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Graduate What is the achievable accuracy of neutrino speed measurement?

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Undergrad Participatory Anthropic Principle

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High School Can particles appear from "actual" nothing including no space?

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Undergrad Is there a multicolor single photon?

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Undergrad Are All Electrons Truly Identical?

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Undergrad How does phase-sensitive detection eliminate noise?

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High School Does Quantum Entanglement Suggest a Fake Universe?

  • Sciencelad2798
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Undergrad Quantum phase estimation - Question regarding rewriting the state

  • Peter_Newman
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Graduate Transmission coefficient problem from Landau-Lifshitz chapter III

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Graduate Pauli Villars for Quadratic Divergences

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High School Quantum entanglement and communications

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Undergrad Understanding spinor transformation law

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