Quantum Physics Forum

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Undergrad Understanding how to reduce density matrices

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Graduate Why does a photon have a defined frequency but is also somewhat localized?

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High School Are Bohr's postulates the same as the Bohr-Bury scheme?

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Undergrad Is this something like a Wick rotation?

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Undergrad What generates black-body photons?

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Undergrad Minimize grand potential functional for density matrix

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Undergrad Asking about Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

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Undergrad Is there a way to translate a particle's spin into regular motion?

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Graduate Softened potential well / potential step

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High School How does a wave collapse not violate the speed of light?

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High School Time Crystals & Spin: Engineering a New Reality?

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Graduate Is there a vibration energy term associated with mesons?

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Graduate Getting particle/antiparticle solutions from the Dirac Equation

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Undergrad Would Black Holes Be Coherent Under Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Finding the probability of making a measurement E1

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Undergrad Properties of a unitary matrix

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Graduate Is the orthocomplement lattice of Hilbert space subspaces atomistic?

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Undergrad What is the effect of a magnetic field on an atom's magnetic moment?

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Undergrad The significance of the Dirac notation

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Undergrad Energy operator in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Is quantum entanglement just like ordering Schrodinger's Slice pizza?

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Graduate Wolfram Schommers Projection theory

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Graduate Matrices from Spherical Harmonics with Eigenvalue l+1

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Undergrad What does an uncertainity of 0 mean?

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Graduate Suggested reading for quantum information applications in QFT

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Undergrad Extraction of a particular quantum state from a quantum circuit

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High School Do opposite-axis spin operators simultaneously determine eigenvalues?

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High School Wave-Particle Duality Controlled by Single-Photon Self-Entanglement

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High School Does the energy 6.626x10^-34J have any special meaning?

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Graduate Representation of Z2 acting on wavefunctions

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Undergrad Is the wave function a vector or a scalar?

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Undergrad Measurement of an entangled Particles in two Different Bases

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High School What is the pattern in a double slit experiment near the slits?

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Undergrad How to find the photon's path?

  • jk22
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High School Does an electron have kinetic energy when attached to a proton?

  • Lolicon
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High School What does the unit "Js" of the Planck constant mean?

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Graduate Heisenberg equations of Klein-Gordon Field in Space-Time

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Undergrad Does intrinsic (e.g., spin) imply elementary (irreducible)?

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High School How do photons and other particles gain or lose energy?

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High School Quantum Entanglement Communication Radio

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Undergrad What is the paradox in the EPR paradox?

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Undergrad What does uncertainty mean in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

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High School How does the electric field of an electron compare to its probability wave?

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Graduate Understanding Cartan subalgebra applied to the n-harmonic oscillator

  • JD_PM
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Graduate Discussing the mathematical formalism of generators (Lorentz Group)

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High School How to differentiate b/w two collapsed values in Bell States

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Graduate Trying to make sense of the double slit "experiment"

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Undergrad QED - ordering of Feynman diagram rules

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Undergrad Measuring Entangled Particles in two different Basis

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Undergrad A query regarding Rotational Invariance

  • Student149
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Undergrad Did anyone create an antihydrogen beam to test if antimatter reverses time?

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Undergrad Possible paradox in the uncertainty principle?

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High School Simulators for Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad A query regarding Spin Entanglement Measurement

  • Student149
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High School Can spontaneous emission be considered a thermodynamic process?

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Undergrad Stern-Gerlach w. normal distribution if magnets were more separated?

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High School When the wave function collapses, how long is it collasped?

  • wolfy
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Undergrad Is wavefunction collapse the same as zero variance of an observable?

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Undergrad Has this photon experiment ever been done?

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Undergrad Second-order perturbation theory with parity-odd Hamiltonian

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High School A few basic questions about the absorption/emission of photons

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Undergrad Two slit experiment with different sized slits

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High School When are particles in a superposition of states?

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Undergrad Maxwell's Demon and the Uncertainty Principle

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Undergrad Are photons and light waves equivalent?

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Graduate Boundary conditions of eigenfunctions with Yukawa potential

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Graduate Invariance of discrete Spectrum with respect a Darboux transformation

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Undergrad Physics from Symmetry: Highly recommended for learning QM

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Undergrad I don't understand about infinitesimal translation

  • Another
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Undergrad Does vacuum excitation violate the conservation of energy?

  • Haorong Wu
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Undergrad Entanglement of Electrons Through Experiments: What's Possible?

  • DarkMattrHole
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Undergrad What are time crystals and how do they differ from regular crystals?

  • Hsopitalist
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Undergrad Is the small world uncertain, or is that just our perception?

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Undergrad Measurement of Entangled Particles causes up or down spin?

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High School Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state

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Undergrad Superposition of large objects

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Undergrad Microscopic and macroscopic physics

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Undergrad Photon Momentum: The Impact of Light on Movement in Space

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High School Speed of electrons in a 2-slit experiment

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Undergrad Confused about the AC Stark effect

  • BillKet
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Undergrad Are Coin Flips Truly Random Like Quantum Systems?

  • Isaac0427
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Undergrad What Do Phase Space Path Integrals Compute?

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Undergrad Condtion on transformation to solve the Dirac equation

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High School Do photons, phonons and electrons have mass?

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Graduate There is a high concentration of introductory material on wave-particle duality

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High School Can a particle / wave pass through a sheet of material?

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High School Uncertainty Principle versus spin alignment

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Undergrad Quantum Eraser: do entangled photons arrive at different moments?

  • Leonardo Muzzi
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Graduate Compton Recoil and the Electron Differential Cross Section

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Graduate Quantum Ising model correlation function query

  • Danny Boy
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Undergrad Physically acceptable solutions to the Schroedinger equation?

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Undergrad How to prove that some fields are different aspects of one general field?

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Undergrad Changing the effective mass of an electron using electric potentials?

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Undergrad Conductors and weak interaction

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Undergrad Relation between spin and solar winds

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Graduate How does one make a macroscopic object?

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Undergrad The reference frame for angular momentum components

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High School Does the future affect the past in a quantum world?

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Undergrad How does molecular symmetry relate to allowed rotational quantum states?

  • JohnnyGui
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High School Why does recombining Stern-Gerlach beams restore the original spin state?

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