Quantum Physics Forum

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Graduate Ranking of Quantum Mechanics interpretations?

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Graduate Continuous and discreet parts of an electromagnetic wave

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Graduate Quantum measurement and prediction

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Graduate Counting Possible Configurations for n Bosons Restricted to kth Excitation

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Graduate Is Hilbert space an isomorphism with the field of n-dimensional complex numbers?

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Graduate Quantum gauge general relativity

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Graduate Exact Perturbation Theory: Solving H0 and Obtaining Precise Energies

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Graduate Experimental/theoretical quantum optics?

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Graduate Shooting photons 1 per second?

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High School Beginner quantum physics books for high school students

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Graduate If Planck's constant were smaller, would quantum effects be more obvious?

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Graduate Nobelprize for quantum optics

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Graduate What are the current pressing questions in Einstein's field of study?

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Graduate What is the propagation amplitude of a particle in QFT?

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Graduate Concept of Field: Canonical Formalism in QFT

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Undergrad What Determines the Number of Electrons in Orbital Shells?

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Graduate Can quantum entanglement be used to send information faster than classical signals?

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Graduate How does <x|p> become exp(ipx/ℏ) in wavefunction derivation?

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Graduate Photon Wave Collapse Experiment (Yeah sure; AJP Sep 2004, Thorn )

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics the same?

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Graduate Why is the concept of potentials incompatible with relativity?

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Graduate Propogation Amplitude of Free Particles from \vec{x}_0 to \vec{x}

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Graduate Quantization over quantization

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Graduate Can the Energy for Non-Integer Values be Modeled in a Quantum System?

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Graduate Are state vectors and wavefunctions the same?

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Graduate Can All Operators Be Expressed as Scaled Products of Projectors?

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Graduate Can You Commute Matrix Elements in Quantum Operators?

  • cire
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Graduate Curious statement about operators in my QM book?

  • *melinda*
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Graduate Why does Planck's formula give energy in terms of frequency, not amplitude?

  • positron
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Graduate Electromagnetic wave in quantum physics?

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Graduate At what point does determinism become untenable?

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Graduate Are hydrogen atoms conservative systems in Schrödinger's equation?

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Graduate Knowledge of the superposition of states

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Graduate General-Audience Essays on Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate What are Quantum Entangled Photons and how are they produced?

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Graduate How to quantize a system in cubic well

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Original Data from Bell's Experiment

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Graduate How Do Momentum and Kinetic Energy Relate in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Tensor Operators: Wigner-Eckart Thm Explained

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Graduate New advances in zero-point physics

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Graduate Majority Opinion on Interpreting Bell's Theorem

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Graduate Nick Herbert's Bell proof graphs in Quantum Reality

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High School Atomic Structure Determines Element Properties

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Graduate Interested in Quantum Mechanics? Check out 'The Quantum Challenge'!

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Graduate Loopholes in optical Bell tests

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Graduate Hartree-Fock exchange operator

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Graduate Union of Classical and Quantum

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Graduate How do group multiplication laws work in group theory and physics?

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Graduate What additional role |p> play here?

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Graduate Complex phases in Stern-Gerlach filters.

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John Stewart Bell Lecture Papers: 1989 ICTP

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Graduate Perturbation theory using Cohen-Tannoudji

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Graduate Can Helium-3 and Antimatter Deuterons Achieve Quantum Superposition?

  • Rade
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Graduate Electrostatic force and virtual photon exchange

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Graduate Entanglement and the Mach principle

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Graduate Required Math for Quantum Mechanics: Analysis vs Numerics

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Undergrad Why is the wave formula zero when x equals plus or minus infinity?

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Undergrad Understanding Quantum Leaps: Dispelling Misconceptions

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Graduate SE equation with a strong potential

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High School Quantum Computing Research: Find Info for School Report

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Graduate Do virtual photons cause static electricity?

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Graduate Finding expectation value using Heisenberg picture

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Graduate Energy of Electon and Energy of the Field

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Graduate About bare and physical mass, Juan R

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Graduate Existence of solutions for the Schrödinger equation with arbitrary potentials

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Graduate Is Quantum Uncertainty Related to Dynamic Instability?

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Graduate Does the nonlinear WKB equation always have eigenfunctions?

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Undergrad Is the Quantum Vacuum Truly Empty Space?

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Undergrad What is Hidden Variable Theory?

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Graduate Can Quantum Processors Revolutionize Computing and Validate Quantum Physics?

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Undergrad Double-slit interference patterns for 4x5 camera with natural light

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Graduate Critical mass formula: The Los Alamos Primer and Rudolf Peierls paper from 1939

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Graduate Scientists teleported a laser beam

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Graduate Question on double slit experiment

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Graduate Particle Momentum and Position Calculation in Heisenberg Picture

  • eljose
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Graduate Conservation of momentum and HUP in PET

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Graduate Double slit in time experiment = evidence for quantized spacetime

  • XenZ
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Graduate Gents how do I write Bra and Ket vectors here

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Graduate What is the Significance of Sturm Liouville Theory in Quantum Mechanics?

  • QMrocks
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Graduate Help with quantum mechanics proofs

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Graduate Vacuum fluctuations of a free field and closed diagrams

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Graduate Cartoon picture of Hawking Radiation-is it accurate?

  • fliptomato
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Graduate The dimensionality of an operator?

  • broegger
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Graduate How can you describe the observing system mathematically?

  • Gurde
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Graduate What are equations 5.1.10 and 5.1.11 in Shankar page 153?

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Graduate What Is an Element of Reality?

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Graduate Can Quaternion and Pauli Matrix algebra be linked in EM course?

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Graduate How are Planck units derived and what are their values?

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Graduate Where can I found explanation on Bell's Inequality ?

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Graduate Linear superposition of single-particle states

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Undergrad If matter = Energy, and matter can be turned into energy

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Graduate How do particles become entangled and does information transfer instantly?

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Undergrad Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality

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Graduate Solving Photon Problems: Energy Conservation Questions

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics be seen as pure geometry ?

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Graduate Can virtual particles exist if they cannot be observed?

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Graduate Can Hydrogen Fusion and Helium Fission Provide an Endless Energy Source?

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Graduate Is the WKB Approach Valid for High Mass Particles in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Can two photons interfere with each other

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High School What is the basis of photon polarization?

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