Quantum Physics Forum

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Graduate Are quantum objects waves or particles or neither?

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Graduate Can QM be derived from Newton's Laws of motion

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Graduate Tunneling in mechanical waves and light refraction

  • AronH
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Graduate Solid evidence for true randomness in in the universe?

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Undergrad Nano particles and nano clusters

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Graduate Solving Plasmas and Magnetics Questions with John

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Graduate Lineshape Function: Understanding the Emission from Two-Level Systems

  • George Isaac Aziz
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Graduate How Do We Handle Sub-Events in Function Normalization?

  • manesh
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Graduate Renormalizying the non-renormalizable.

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Graduate Time development of Expectation values

  • Ed Quanta
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Graduate Why does Planck length depend on G, c, and h?

  • Ed Quanta
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Graduate Wanting to know more about quantum mechanics

  • Omar
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Graduate How is the action defined for non-differentiable paths in path integrals?

  • Inquisitive_Mind
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Undergrad Can electric charge be enclosed ?

  • tabchouri
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Graduate What are some published papers on the measurement problem in QM?

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Graduate Particle-in-a-box and the uncertainty principle

  • broegger
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Graduate Solving Kinetic Energy Level Problem with Bohr's Rules for B=10T

  • silverek
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Graduate Solving for the space-time metric in the QFT integrals

  • Mike2
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Graduate Force of Sub-Atomic Particles with Des Chamberlain

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Graduate Calculating Electron Speed in Hydrogen-like Atoms

  • eku_girl83
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Graduate Neutrinos and neutrino interactions

  • Andrew Mason
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Graduate The Significance of a Non-Constant Scalar Field in 4-Dimensional Spacetimes

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Finding optics and photonics course notes to catch up

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Graduate Looking for resources on quantum teleportation

  • Bossieman
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Graduate Hilbert Space,Dirac Notation,and some other stuff

  • Ed Quanta
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Graduate Galilean invariance transformation of the Schrödinger equation wavefunction

  • Kane O'Donnell
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: How Do I Find Expectation Values for Position and Momentum?

  • itsaakanksha
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Graduate Why is Nottale's scale relativity theory underappreciated?

  • humanino
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Graduate What Confusion Surrounds Young's Experiment on Wave-Particle Duality?

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Graduate Can a single photon take any path to a detector despite barriers?

  • primal schemer
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Graduate Is Reaching Absolute Zero Truly Impossible?

  • Matrixman13
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Graduate Can objects move towards each other in less than one Planck length?

  • Aphex_Twin
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Undergrad CNOT gate has actually been built or not?

  • lorka
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Graduate How Does SHM Relate to Probability Distributions in Quantum Mechanics?

  • Claire84
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Graduate Superposition Principle Question

  • Ed Quanta
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Graduate What's the rotator theory. I don't understand it. Why?

  • neostart
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Graduate Derivation of the Bohr Magneton

  • aeroegnr
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Graduate Decoherence, Unitary Evolution and Information: Some ideas

  • EddieZ
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Graduate Hamilton-Jacobi equation for interacting spins ?

  • lalbatros
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Graduate Inverse wavefunction incorporates lower Planck gravitational bound

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Information on photoluminescence?

  • sharp81
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Graduate Vector Potential in Schrodinger eqn

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Undergrad Can I Calculate the Maximum Energy Loss in a Photon-Electron Collision?

  • AKG
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Why did Gross, Politzer and Wilczek win the 2004 Nobel Prize?

  • marcus
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Graduate Does Bohr's Model of Hydrogen Still Hold Up Against Quantum Mechanics?

  • PeteGt
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Graduate Nuclear efficiency and the fine structure constant?

  • nightcleaner
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Undergrad Finding lens spacing and magnification in a fresnel projector design

  • sharp81
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Graduate Finding Pauli matrices WITHOUT ladder operators

  • Penguin
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Graduate Are virtual particles created spontaneously out of the vacuum?

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Graduate Calculating Electron Emission from Lithium with 100W Visible Light

  • silverek
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Graduate Faraday's Principal of induction

  • mcaxiak
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Undergrad Is the Singularity Still Present in Our Universe?

  • PIT2
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Graduate EPR type thought experiment with black hole

  • kmdavisjr
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High School Data Analysis web site for experiments ?

  • student1938
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Graduate Does Quantum Entanglement Violate Causality?

  • IvanTheTerrible
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Undergrad The wave/particle nature of light

  • SeReNiTy
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Graduate Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Imply the Necessity of Quantum Mechanics?

  • Mike2
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Graduate Quantised Photon Energy and Compton Scattering

  • timmyeatchips
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Where Can I Find Film Clips of Superfluidity Phenomenon?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Schroedinger Equation - Galilean Invariance

  • Kane O'Donnell
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Graduate Understanding Neutron Star Formation and the Missing Ingredient

  • skywolf
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Graduate Potential operator in positional space

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Graduate Questions about Franck Hertz Experiment: Energy, Mean Free Path, Interactions

  • JamesJames
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Graduate Understanding Quantum Mechanics: The Dual Nature of Particles and Waves

  • StatusX
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Graduate Prove E > V(min) in Schroedinger Equation

  • emob2p
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Graduate Electron Motion in a Quantum Leap

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Graduate Nonlocality of the quantum potential

  • hellfire
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Graduate Hermitian Operators and Imaginary Numbers

  • Ed Quanta
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Graduate What rules do quantum fields follow?

  • Enos
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Graduate Where can I find information on solving for new energies using Dirac notation?

  • theFuture
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Graduate What does mod(Psi) mean in quantum mechanics?

  • Ad Infinitum NAU
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Graduate How Does Measurement Influence the Schrödinger's Cat Paradox?

  • RAD4921
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Graduate Do particles have definite properties or is uncertainty only from measurement?

  • Alkatran
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Graduate What is superselection?

  • Imparcticle
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Graduate Does Time Exist for a Photon Traveling from Point A to Point B?

  • kernelpenguin
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Graduate Introduction to Quantum Group Theory for College Math Majors

  • Soveraign
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Graduate Knew my share of quantum phyisics

  • skywolf
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Graduate Definition and formula for the projector operator P_psi

  • Sammywu
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Graduate Objects without quantum nature, or without relativistic nature

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Why can't negative energy virtual particles escape black holes?

  • Rothiemurchus
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Graduate Virtual particles vs. speed of light

  • Jovaro
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Graduate How Does Quantum Tunneling Challenge Classical Physics Concepts?

  • Rothiemurchus
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Graduate Newbie Quantum Physics Questions

  • Wong
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Graduate Energy-time uncertainty relation

  • RedX
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Graduate QFT proof from Peskin and Schroeder

  • Norman
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Graduate Can Bound States with Exact Energies Violate the Uncertainty Principle?

  • Allday
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Graduate Is the Wave Function for a Free Particle with a Rigid Wall at x=0 Correct?

  • Ed Quanta
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Undergrad How do I use a histogram to find a combined fit for my muon lifetime experiment?

  • Emc2brain
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Graduate What Is the Meissner Effect and How Does It Relate to Superconductivity?

  • Diane_
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Graduate How do nonclassical observations influence eventual classical outcomes?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Qm probability, energy density and curvature

  • Rothiemurchus
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Graduate Electrons, the nucleus and the uncertainty principle.

  • uranium_235
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Graduate Asymptotic freedom,quantum gravity

  • Rothiemurchus
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Graduate Why quantize classical fields instead of using occupation numbers

  • nrqed
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Graduate Probablity of Walking through a Wall

  • Paul is Cool
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity: Understanding H Y = E Y and T Y = G Y

  • Rothiemurchus
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Graduate What does field value mean if energy is zero in the Higgs field?

  • aliendoom
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Graduate Relating de Broglie wavelength, wave functions, and probability in quantum mechanics

  • broegger
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Graduate Can a Massive Force Carrier Turn a Two-Body System into a Three-Body Problem?

  • Rothiemurchus
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