Quantum Physics Forum

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Graduate No Absolute Stillness: Questions from New Forum Member Nick

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Graduate Quantum Operators Indices Confusion

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Graduate Is the Doppler effect for atomic spectra a purely realistic effect?

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Graduate Fields other than the photon field in the Casimir effect?

  • bcrowell
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Graduate Gaussian Wave Packets - Fiction?

  • LarryS
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Graduate Dirac equation for the conjugated field

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Graduate The quantum physics of time travel

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High School What is space if matter is energy and time is changes in energy?

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Graduate Irreducible representations of translations

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Graduate Photon Interference: What Happens to the Photons?

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Graduate Emission in hydrogen atom: recoil and photon properties

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Graduate Quick complex numbers question in QM (probability amplitues)

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Undergrad What is a Qubit in Quantum Computing?

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Undergrad What Does the "\oplus" Symbol Represent?

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Graduate Are Identical Non-Interacting Particles Distinguishable?

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Graduate Modelling the shape of an atom

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Undergrad How much energy to ionize an atom for electrostatic levitation?

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Graduate Antisymmetry of final State Requiring L = 1

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Graduate Leonard Susskind improvisation on the uncomfortable notion of probability ;)

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Graduate Can total angular momentum be found from its z-component?

  • Master J
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Graduate Planck's constant, h. The limit goes to zero?

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Undergrad Why is there hybridization of orbitals?

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Graduate What is a non-orthogonal measurement?

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Graduate Relationship between Planck constant and fine structure constant

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Graduate What is the actual size of a photon?

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Graduate Classical limit of the commutator is a derivative?

  • pellman
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Graduate Self-adjointness domain of P_r^2

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Graduate What is the Density of States for Electrons in Metal?

  • KFC
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Graduate Why Would a Finite Well Fluctuate?

  • RedX
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Undergrad Does the cat's consciousness collapse the wave function in Schrödinger's cat?

  • JRodriguez
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Graduate Reformulation instead of Renormalizations

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Graduate How can Uncertainty principle be used to get speed of alpha particle

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Undergrad How light travels through glass

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics on Diatomic Molecule: Info Sources

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Graduate How to fit quantum LHO into quantum mechanics?

  • maya :D
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Graduate Why do Zeeman transitions with ΔmJ=0 not have zero frequency?

  • KFC
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Graduate Time in a Steady-State Quantum System

  • LarryS
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Graduate Hydrogen Atom Radial Wave Function (limit problem)

  • Master J
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Graduate OPEs in conformal field theory

  • nrqed
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Graduate Bell's Theorem and Counterfactual Definiteness

  • Jolb
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Graduate Why does the particle density operator resemble the wave function in second quantization?

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Graduate Double Slit/Photo Detection/Is it the SAME photon?

  • Supaiku
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Graduate Probability of finding a particle in a certain state, using projection

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Graduate Why is Time Not an Operator in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Real and imaginary parts of wave function

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Graduate Weak Measurements and Determinism

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Graduate How Do Electron Spin Effects Vary in Pairs of Electrons?

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Graduate I now know what slit the photon came out of

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Graduate Spin - any book recommendations?

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Graduate Square integrable functions blowing up at infinity

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Graduate Shooting humans through a giant double slit experiment

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle and lifetime

  • Niles
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Graduate Global symmetry of an N-component Klein-Gordon theory?

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Graduate Teaching Yourself Quantum Mechanics and Prerequisites

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Graduate Why do numerical simulations diverge in chaotic regimes?

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Undergrad Simple explaination of pertibation theory

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Graduate Why do electrons have specific spin up or down states?

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Graduate What is spin for neutral particles

  • ArielGenesis
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Graduate Why doesn't a photon's wavelength increase when it reflects off an object?

  • Neo_Anderson
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Graduate How Does Observation Influence the Reality of the Universe Before Observers?

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Graduate Coincidence counting in Bell experiment

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Graduate Is it acceptable to use plane waves?

  • RedX
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Graduate What properties does Baym use to derive the L commutation relation?

  • univox360
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Graduate Books detailing Bell's inequality derivation

  • The thinker
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Graduate Entanglement entropy vs Entropy

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Graduate How can we visualize the negative sign in electron wave functions?

  • mccoy1
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate What is the Quantum Explanation for the Law of Malus?

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Graduate Effect of Negative permittivity?

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Undergrad Does a photon travel in a straight line?

  • DavidSullivan
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Graduate Wave function of an observer, 'always collapsed'?

  • dmtr
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Graduate Ward identities in Minimal Subtraction Scheme

  • gheremond
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Graduate Quantum computing (Why is it important?)

  • Lamented_Soul
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Graduate Bells inequality be satisfied with equivalent local QM?

  • Gerenuk
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Graduate Reading the value of a qubit without changing its value

  • dmtr
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Graduate Two slit experiment - variable detector

  • tj8888
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Graduate Can the wave function be a constant?

  • dreamspy
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Graduate Electron frequency and wavelength

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Graduate Overlap integrals: What are they and how do we arrive at the formula?

  • Mazzur
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Graduate Equal Commutators: What Do They Tell Us?

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Graduate How does a magnetic feild work?

  • peron
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Graduate Pauli Matrices as generators of SU(2)

  • OSUPhysics
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Graduate What Happens to Photons During Ionization?

  • Thermodave
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Graduate Could a time particle explain mass, relativity and dark matter?

  • ryan albery
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Graduate What are the practical uses of Berry's Phase in scientific research?

  • Niles
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Graduate Feynman diagrams - neutrino interactions

  • billbray
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Graduate Quantum Physics Debate, Is It Relevant?

  • hilo1222
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Undergrad Do physical properties of metals affect threshold frequency for the photoelectric effect?

  • SmileyMan
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Graduate Two particle probability density

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Graduate Do MB statistics imply distinguishability of electrons?

  • hardphysics
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Graduate Where does the 1/X(x) term come from in 3D Schrödinger equation separation?

  • Master J
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Graduate Is the Missing Mass in the Universe Similar to Water in a Pond?

  • buckrogers
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Graduate Calculating Bethe Stopping Power Constant: 606,235 or 78,500?

  • John2
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Graduate Question regarding the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

  • zeromodz
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Graduate Why is the integral of the Dirac Delta potential related to its properties?

  • alejandrito29
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Graduate Wick's Theorm to Feynman Diagrams?

  • pudilz
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Graduate [cryptography] quantum key distribution

  • martman
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Graduate What are the latest research trends and resources on entanglement entropy?

  • wam_mi
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Undergrad Scanning tunneling microscopes, physics lab

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Graduate Some Explanation about Heisenberg,s Uncertainty Particle

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