Quantum Physics Forum

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High School Is quantum coherence a random event?

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High School Does a black hole capture part of a photon's superposition?

  • Isambard
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Undergrad Blackbody radiation in quantum mechanics

  • Malamala
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Undergrad What are the Misconceptions Surrounding Virtual Particles?

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Decoherence and direction of causality

  • entropy1
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Graduate Simple S matrix example in Coleman's lectures on QFT

  • Glenn Rowe
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Graduate Is there still a collapse problem after decoherence?

  • Heidi
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Graduate Anharmonic oscillators with closed-form solutions

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Graduate Fidelity between initial and final states

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Undergrad Nature of Collision in Compton Scattering

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Undergrad What is the origin of translational motion?

  • Maurice Morelock
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High School Question re photons/EM waves and the double slit experiment

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Undergrad The Meaning of Basis States in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Could QM Arise From Wilson's Ideas

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Graduate Knill-Laflamme condition Shors code

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Undergrad Are density matrices part of a real vector space?

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Undergrad Momentum in electromagnetic waves

  • Ahsan Khan
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Undergrad Feynman's description of the quantum behaviour of an ammonia molecule

  • Roby002
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High School Do eigenstate probabilities change with time?

  • sgphysics
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High School Could Spontaneous symmetry breaking cause momentum change in an atom?

  • Matthew-Champion
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Undergrad Vacuum energy and Energy conservation

  • Ebi Rogha
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High School Is quantum superposition involved in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?

  • Curious Cat
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Undergrad Determining Momentum from Wavefunction

  • FermiDIrac19
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High School How does quantum superposition really work?

  • Curious Cat
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Undergrad Uncertainty principle equation for virtual particles

  • Ebi Rogha
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Undergrad What is the quantum spin of a single electron in an (atomic) orbital?

  • Curious Cat
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Graduate How to derive the Momentum and Energy Operators from first principles?

  • Svend
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Undergrad Developing Quantum Expressions using QUBO

  • rpthomps
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Undergrad Why Does Molecular Potential Energy Curve Have That Specific Shape?

  • Dario56
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Undergrad How to recalculate Berry phase dipole moments (jumps over time)?

  • bumblebee77
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Undergrad Dirac equation in the hydrogen atom

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Observables on the "3 polarizers experiment"

  • DougFisica
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High School Two double slits in series: interference pattern through cascaded apertures

  • Myslius
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Graduate Do renormalization and field regularization address the same infinities?

  • Jarek 31
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Undergrad Schrodinger Cat states in terms of Displacement Operator

  • deepalakshmi
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Graduate Time evolution of coherent state with vacuum

  • deepalakshmi
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High School Can black holes be quantum entangled with stars?

  • Antman0115
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Graduate Trace of Numerator in QED vacuum polarization

  • Elmo
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Graduate What's the meaning of mean photon number?

  • Tspirit
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Graduate Understanding how quantum annealing solves QUBO problems

  • siddjain
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Undergrad Discussion about quantum mechanics and spacetime

  • docnet
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Undergrad How Do We Model Wave Function Collapse After Measuring Particle Location?

  • Sciencemaster
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Undergrad Common features of set theory and wave functions?

  • Hallucinogen
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Undergrad Perturbation theory with two parameters?

  • Amentia
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Undergrad Commutation of Beam splitter operator with Displacement operator

  • deepalakshmi
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Undergrad What does it really mean that photons are quanta of light?

  • Ebi Rogha
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Graduate Infinities in QFT (and physics in general)

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Graduate Cat state acting on given Hamiltonian

  • deepalakshmi
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Graduate What are cat states in quantum mechanics?

  • deepalakshmi
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Graduate What is the legacy of Sidney Coleman?

  • robphy
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Undergrad Observing a double-slit experiment

  • oknow
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Undergrad How big is a photon - Interesting video

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High School Why is there now evidence of a lag time in the photoelectric effect?

  • qnt200
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Undergrad Software for optical simulation with interference

  • Erik Ayer
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Undergrad Spin spin coupling problem an electron/positron system

  • Hayam ramadan
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Graduate Derivation of recovery channel for bit flip error

  • steve1763
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Graduate Relationship between Larmor precession and energy eigenstates

  • docnet
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Graduate How Does One Calculate the Time Evolution of a Photon in a Vacuum State?

  • deepalakshmi
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Undergrad How does Ballentine's propagator definition relate to the evolution operator?

  • jbergman
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Graduate Understanding Local and Nonlocal Operators in Quantum Field Theory

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate I am looking for an example of a Fredholm module

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Differentiated Sakharov Equation for Vacuum Fluctuations

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High School Does Schrödinger's Cat Know Its Own Fate?

  • oknow
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High School Does time lose significance in quantum entanglement?

  • beans1971
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Undergrad Gauge Theory and Fiber Bundles

  • knowwhatyoudontknow
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Undergrad Can we distinguish photon intrinsic nature from measurement effects?

  • Ebi Rogha
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Undergrad Proving the Schrodinger Equation

  • thegroundhog
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Undergrad Rayleigh scattering VS Raman scattering

  • Ebi Rogha
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Undergrad Entangled particles in black hole decay?

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad [Quantum Computing] Quantum Parallelism State Calculation

  • llha
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Graduate Bootstrapping quantum Yang-Mills with concrete axioms

  • BohmianRealist
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Undergrad Output of down converted beam not proportional to input beam power?

  • Spinnor
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High School Kim and Scully delayed eraser, interference curve form

  • jeremyfiennes
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Undergrad Orbitals and selection rules in a synchrotron

  • snorkack
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Undergrad Can a single photon be reflected by a mirror?

  • Ebi Rogha
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Undergrad Quantum vs Classical multiphoton interference on double slit

  • MichPod
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Graduate QM is Feynman path ensemble - is QFT Feynman field ensemble?

  • Jarek 31
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Undergrad Does decoherence mean the loss of entanglement?

  • Haorong Wu
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Undergrad Is there a way to calculate the frequency of an electron wave?

  • Dyon
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Graduate Jaynes-Cummings Density Operator Evolution

  • stephen8686
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Undergrad Why are there no probability amplitudes in MWI?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad "Counterfactual definiteness" vs. "free will"

  • greypilgrim
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Undergrad Numerically solving Time-independent Schrödinger eqn. using Shooting algorithm

  • Wrichik Basu
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Graduate Spin-One Klein Gordon Equation

  • Jogging-Joe
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Undergrad How to explain vacuum fluctuations to high school students

  • raracon
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Graduate Fermilab's muon g-2 experiment and hints of new physics

  • physicoed
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Undergrad Uncertainty principle##\Delta H\Delta Q##, where Q is time-independent

  • Foracle
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Undergrad It seems that the eigenvalue problem rules out the possibility of E=0?

  • BHL 20
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High School Entangled protons in a uniform magnetic field?

  • docnet
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Graduate Bell's theorem: Local realism v. counterfactual determinism

  • zvi
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Undergrad Is quantum mechanics imply nature is deterministic or probabilistic?

  • Pipsqueakalchemist
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Undergrad Two Ways of Calculating the Solution to the Infinite Square Well?

  • JohnH
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Graduate Why are we allowed to use the trace cyclicity here?

  • Heidi
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Graduate What problem arises from the second time derivative in the Klein-Gordon equation?

  • koustav
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Undergrad Einstein-Bohr "photon box" debate and general relativity

  • Giulio Prisco
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Undergrad Schrodinger Equation as Flow Equation

  • lagrangman
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High School Which book is best for learning about quantum entanglement?

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Undergrad Is the Wavefunction a Contravariant Component?

  • JohnH
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Graduate Quantum superposition: Is a problem of space-time worldview?

  • sergiokapone
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Undergrad How Does Quantum Negativity Vary with Partial Transposes in Bipartite Systems?

  • Jufa
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