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.

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High School Entanglement and action at a distance -- What coordinate system?

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Undergrad Why is quantum entanglement so significant?

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Undergrad Delay in signaling between entanglement particles

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High School Is an electron beam affected by photons?

  • Herbascious J
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Undergrad Does photon self energy contribute to the speed of light?

  • Heidi
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High School How do atomic clocks work: frequency stability of caesium atoms?

  • Martian2020
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Undergrad What do strings represent in string theory?

  • planet-75
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High School Planck's equation and upper and lower bounds on the energy of a photon

  • PainterGuy
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Undergrad Are Virtual Exchange Particles a Valid Concept in Understanding Remote Forces?

  • planet-75
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High School How do we know that the measurement affects the result?

  • danHa
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Undergrad Completeness relations in a tensor product Hilbert space

  • Decimal
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High School Particle annihilation -- Is it instantaneous?

  • dsaun777
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Undergrad Article on photon wave-particle duality

  • physics pfan
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Undergrad Are electro-magnetic waves the same as the wave function?

  • Herbascious J
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High School Does retrocausality follow from logic?

  • entropy1
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Graduate How useful are quantum-classical hybrid theories?

  • andresB
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Undergrad Potential step and tunneling effect

  • Maximilian2
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Undergrad Interference in double-slit with single photons

  • Byron Forbes
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Undergrad Discreteness of bound vs unbound states

  • Mayan Fung
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Graduate What is a useful way to talk about eigenstates of the position operator

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Graduate What Does Path Mean in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory?

  • Antonio Lao
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Undergrad Can Bell's Theorem Disprove This Density Matrix Representation?

  • jk22
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Graduate Are there two different adjoint representations used in the SM?

  • victorvmotti
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High School Transverse vs longitudinal wave representation in double-slit diagrams

  • r731
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Undergrad The velocity of Pilot-wave and the Double slit experiment

  • sha1000
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Graduate Adjoint representation and spinor field valued in the Lie algebra

  • victorvmotti
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High School Destructive interference and conservation of momentum

  • Quantum of Solace
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High School Quantum eraser and time travel

  • black hole 123
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Undergrad Information content of a qubit

  • Sunny Singh
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Undergrad How do we know that the raising operator only raises the state by one step?

  • Mayan Fung
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Undergrad Separating particles in a zero point energy field

  • mrmashy
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Undergrad Double slit experiment and the Uncertainty Principle

  • Axel Togawa
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Undergrad Fermi gas in relativistic limit

  • Mayan Fung
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Graduate Geometry of matrix Dirac algebra

  • bayakiv
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Undergrad Zero-point energy of the harmonic oscillator

  • JTFreitas
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Undergrad Lyman-##\alpha## Wavelength: Hydrogen's Region in Spectrum

  • tryingtolearn1
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High School Can brain-computer interfaces reveal more about quantum mechanics?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Doesn't Schrodinger's Cat start to decay?

  • saddlestone-man
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Graduate Propagator from a space-time point to itself

  • victorvmotti
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Undergrad Quantum numbers for energy levels

  • TheCelt
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High School How Do Active and Passive Transformations Differ in Quantum Mechanics?

  • etotheipi
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Undergrad Entanglement and Regions of Space in Vacuum

  • expos4ever
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Undergrad Verifying Speed of Light Varies by Direction

  • Andy Lee
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Undergrad How can a single photon create a diffraction pattern in a microscope?

  • Axel Togawa
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Undergrad Where do wave functions come from?

  • joneall
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Graduate Scattering Amplitudes for Phi 4 Theory

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Undergrad Two photon polarizations in L&B gauge theory Lagrangian

  • joneall
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Undergrad Are quantum computers required to be cold to reduce Brownian motion?

  • iVenky
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Graduate How can we measure these Hermitian operators?

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Eigenfunctions and wave functions

  • semc
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High School Can a quantum entanglement camera receive images faster than light speed?

  • James71
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein numerical integration

  • TeslaPow
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High School Cold vs hot on the atomic scale

  • Fishpig
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Undergrad Is the Heisenberg-Robertson Uncertainty Relation Always Consistent?

  • DuckAmuck
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Undergrad Is Probability in Quantum States Proportional to Energy Levels?

  • bob012345
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High School Dual slit with controlled electron trajectories

  • Buckethead
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Undergrad Zeno's paradoxes of motion in physics

  • Johnny5454
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Undergrad Information diagram for entangled particles?

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Second Matrices from Spherical Harmonics with Eigenvalue l+1

  • paklin2
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Undergrad Pros and cons of Heisenberg and Schrodinger (and Feynman) pictures?

  • AndreasC
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Undergrad Could an experiment confirm the EPR paradox's implications on uncertainty?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Graduate Using the QM Formalism To Make Predictions

  • Morbert
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Undergrad Why QFT still goes well while it lacks the notion of wave function?

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High School What happens when a photon has more energy than the level transition gap?

  • songoku
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High School Can it escape the event horizon if the wavelength is long enough?

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Graduate Upper bound for wavelength of a photon inside an infinite square well

  • Kostik
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High School 1-photon emission possible from electron-positron annihilation?

  • Puffer Fish
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Undergrad Transmission and reflection coefficients for sech² potential scattering

  • Robin04
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Graduate Would it matter which inner product I choose in quantum mechanics?

  • patric44
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Undergrad Is the measurement problem equally as vexing as entanglement?

  • bland
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Undergrad Born rule in classical Ising model: Feynman -> Boltzmann ensemble?

  • Jarek 31
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics Wave Function in 3D

  • Icycub
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Graduate Is this simple derivation of the uncertainty principle valid?

  • patric44
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Undergrad Solution Expansion of ##A^{\mu}## when ##L \rightarrow \infty##

  • JD_PM
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Undergrad Consequences when a measurement is destroyed?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Insights Causal Perturbation Theory - Comments

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Undergrad Can Dynamical Systems Explain Electron Behavior in Hydrogen Atoms?

  • thaiqi
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Undergrad Is Stern-Gerlach experiment a proper idealization of measurnment?

  • Jarek 31
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High School 2D-cross-double-slit experiments for understanding quantum world

  • davidpeng1749
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Undergrad Where does this solid angle come from?

  • Heidi
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Graduate Why does equation 35.21 have an extra minus sign?

  • sunshine9
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Undergrad Momentum operator acting to the left

  • DuckAmuck
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Graduate What should be the mathematical way out of QFT's decades stagnation?

  • Tendex
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Undergrad Why quantum wave function collapse is not consider a signal?

  • danielhaish
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High School What causes loss of quantum coherence?

  • entropy1
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Graduate Can Entropy of Two-Level Particles Predict Fringe Visibility?

  • Heidi
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Graduate Where did this term in the path integral come from?

  • PORFIRIO I
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High School Actions of subatomic particles while under observation

  • Physics4gangsters
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Undergrad Why use complex conjugate when multiplying different wave functions

  • Icycub
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Undergrad 2-photon interference question

  • Killtech
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High School Could Quantum Fluctuations exist W/out the presence of Spacetime?

  • Vanilla Gorilla
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Undergrad Q re a photon ionizing a hydrogen atom

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Quantum Measurements with Gravitational Waves

  • lightarrow
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High School Regarding the coherence of a photon pair decaying from Higgs

  • DarkMattrHole
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Graduate Spin-orbital combination and the exclusion principle

  • hokhani
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Graduate Effective Action for Scalar and Fermion Fields

  • The black vegetable
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Undergrad Understanding Matrix Mechanics in Quantum Mechanics

  • Jamister
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High School Can a Thought Experiment with Dice Challenge Bell Inequalities?

  • Johan0001
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Undergrad Why can't we interprete /x> in relativistic QFT as position eigenfunc?

  • fxdung
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High School How long before someone builds a machine to predict the future?

  • Quarinteen
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