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 Double slit - couple questions.

  • Shinns
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Questions about the Hartree Fock Method and Methane Molecules

  • davidfur
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Reality exists when observed, but who is the observer?

  • ExNihilo
  • · Replies 51 ·
2
Replies
51

Graduate Why does Mandl & Shaw use functional derivatives for conserved currents?

  • jmlaniel
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Is there a 'classical' equation for the strong force?

  • dylankarr.com
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Blackbodies and Maxwell's Whole Number Wavelength Theory

  • Apophilius
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Particle interchange and z component of spin

  • LostConjugate
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Limits of Macroscopic Entanglement

  • Varon
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Graduate How do mirrors work in quantum mechanics?

  • superg33k
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Does a light source near the slits destroy interference without observation?

  • AlexChandler
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate No more than two electrons in the entire universe can have the same momentum

  • LostConjugate
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate DCQE - walborn/yoon do it one way only

  • San K
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Correct way to calculate energy in Bohr Atom Model

  • Bassalisk
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Feynman's Derivation of Maxwell's Equations from Commutator Relations

  • S.Daedalus
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Graduate Clarifying the Misconception: Do Positrons Really Travel Backward in Time?

  • stevenytc
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Can grandpa understand the Bell's Theorem?

  • miosim
  • · Replies 404 ·
14
Replies
404

Graduate What's the difference between a fock state and a mixed ensemble?

  • kof9595995
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

Graduate Why do bodies absorb and radiate heat in the same proportion?

  • Bassalisk
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate BBC Researchers Break Quantum Mechanics Complementarity Rule

  • Lost in Space
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Can we attain a disire approxomation for asymptotic perturbative QTF Theo?

  • ndung200790
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Can Neutrons be Deflected in a Non-Uniform E Field Due to Spin?

  • cragar
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Do photons and electrons occupy point positions in phase space?

  • honolulu_boy
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Instant Correlation vs. Instant Communication: Exploring the Difference

  • IllyaKuryakin
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Do particles have well-defined positions at all times?

  • Fredrik
  • · Replies 64 ·
3
Replies
64

Graduate Wave propagation, resonance and collapse

  • yeshi
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Photon wavelength shift from gravitational lensing?

  • toliynyk
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Photon observed to be behaving as a particle

  • Haldhad
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate How does one observer win out over another?

  • galadriel
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18

Graduate Quantum dot, quantum wire, quantum well?

  • fisico30
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Understanding QFT and the Role of Particles in Quantum Fields

  • Varon
  • · Replies 21 ·
Replies
21

Graduate How to demonstrate the asymptotic charateristic of perturbative QTF Theo?

  • ndung200790
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Is there a direct magnetic interaction between two electrons?

  • jbb
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Graduate What is a probability amplitude?

  • Carnot
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate What is the difference between singularity and infinity in QTF theo?

  • ndung200790
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Photon radius and affected energy in double-slit experiments

  • gnarlan
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Tools of the Quantum Physicists

  • bugatti79
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Tunneling equation have all the pieces, just can't figure out the calculation

  • j2dabizo
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Simultaneous Causation and Entanglement

  • Atype*
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate A question in one dimensional Schroedinger Equation.

  • Karmerlo
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Are There Multiple Independent Spins in Higher Dimensional Spaces?

  • haael
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Eigen functions/values for many-body Hamiltonian with creation/annihilation operators

  • ranytawfik
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Pauli's Exclusion Principle - arbitrary?

  • albroun
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Why do photons come in quanta?

  • mavc
  • · Replies 29 ·
Replies
29

Graduate What if the H constant was larger?

  • Varon
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Does light exceed c in the Scharnhorst effect?

  • Dmitry67
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Could the Multiverse Explain Everyday Choices and Our Perfect Universe?

  • Lazernugget
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Graduate Transformation matrix for decoupled 2D oscillator with coupling term

  • noamriemer
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Wavefunction/eigenfunction and eigen states?

  • new_986
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Superconformal algebra, generators, and conformal killing equations

  • rubbergnome
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Should Quantum Randomness be called Supernatural?

  • wuliheron
  • · Replies 83 ·
3
Replies
83

Undergrad How do you measure momentum of a particle?

  • Negeng
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Atomic exitations, difference between photon and electron collision?

  • kof9595995
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Graduate How does Feynman Sum Over Histories make sense?

  • Astralos
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Planck instant and neurobiology. Could mind exist outside time-courses?

  • cosmographer
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Role of Observer in Double Slit Experiment

  • Astralos
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Why the Dirac Lagrangian over a derivative alternative for spin-1/2 fields

  • TriTertButoxy
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate Are entanglements the most fundamental existences in the universe?

  • AustinM
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Finding all symmetries of a given Lagrangian

  • Rocky Raccoon
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Numerical 2D Harmonic Oscillator

  • JohnSimpson
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Mathematical meaning of measurement

  • nateHI
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate Must have gone through one of the slits

  • San K
  • · Replies 32 ·
2
Replies
32

Graduate Scattering Probability and Particle Size in the Atmosphere

  • nhmllr
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Undergrad Basic question regarding the Double Slit Experiment

  • josephgerth
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate Entangled Atoms and propagation.

  • hawaiifiver
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Feynman Parameters: Solving an Induction Problem

  • Perturbation
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Covariant commutation relations and spacelike intervals in Mandl & Shaw

  • lornstone
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Grasmann Lagrangian - literature

  • Omega137
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate G-factor of electron, proton, and neutron don't cancel out

  • LostConjugate
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate In DCQE you can get which way and still get interference?

  • San K
  • · Replies 25 ·
Replies
25

Graduate Are Virtual Particles Real According to the Dynamic Casimir Effect Study?

  • dm4b
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Bell's theorem and foundations of statistics

  • hgeurdes
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate Quantum Mechanical systems considered in old QM

  • wizrdofvortex
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Can entangled particles synchronize faster than light?

  • davisbunch
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Legendre Polynomials and Complex Analysis

  • "pi"mp
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate Einstein's Delayed Choice Quantum Experiment

  • hankaaron
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Two Kraus representations: How to check if they're the same TPCPM?

  • Ameno
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate What can I use as a detector to collapse the wave function?

  • iamburitto
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Quantizating a symmetric Dirac Lagrangian

  • Rocky Raccoon
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Random particle movement (with pictures)

  • squeehunter
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Undergrad Do we live in a perfect liquid?

  • quantumirage
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Could quantum entanglement be one particle in quantum coherence?

  • hankaaron
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Entropy in isolated quantum systems

  • kith
  • · Replies 46 ·
2
Replies
46

Graduate Evolution of Matter from Quantum World: Macroscopic Scale vs Localized Particles

  • nouveau_riche
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Graduate Common sets of eigenfunctions in angular momentum

  • Turtle492
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Einstein thoughts on the quantum

  • Varon
  • · Replies 85 ·
3
Replies
85

Graduate Can DIY Photon Entanglement Be Achieved at Home?

  • Brainguy
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Electron spin entanglements - time-energy uncertainty

  • Ferrus
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Scattering Theory Books: Easy to Follow Like Sakurai's

  • rbwang1225
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate What is the Operator <m|n> in the Wave Equation for a Particle in a Box?

  • Markel
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Calculating First Order Photon Self-Energy Integral

  • lornstone
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Wave-particle duality for the electron

  • Uranium235
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Cosmological Constant Problem / Vacuum Catastrophe

  • cbd1
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Undergrad Wavelengths of Oxygen - Calculate or Lookup Info

  • pmlapl
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate What will happen when we have a Theory of Everything?

  • Varon
  • · Replies 40 ·
2
Replies
40

Graduate Isometric operators- spectrum preserving?

  • muppet
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

High School What is quantum physics used for?

  • FishmanGeertz
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Locality in QM and commutators

  • haushofer
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Does observing electrons before the slits suppress interference?

  • platonic
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Does switching off a time-traveling photon device disprove causality?

  • ANT_SB
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Graduate Blackbody Radiation of Boiling Water

  • stanli121
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3