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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Graduate What constitutes a QM observation?

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Graduate What force causes the angular momentum vector to precess around Lz?

  • meme
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Graduate Why Are Degenerate Quantum States Not Orthogonal?

  • anilrapire
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Graduate Does gravity slow down light like a drag force?

  • kernelpenguin
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Graduate Favorite books on quantum mechanics?

  • Allday
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Graduate Relativity and observer disagreement on photon impact at distance

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Undergrad The quantum computer: computer of the future

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Graduate Schrödinger's cat and wave function collapse

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High School Speed of light can be attained.

  • benzun_1999
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Undergrad Why Don't Electrons Spiral into Protons Despite Their Attraction?

  • sanjuro
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High School Explain to me what quantum physics

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Graduate If two electrons were to approach each other

  • jby
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Graduate Questions on Hawking Radiation

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Graduate Why does Schrödinger's model say electrons don't move?

  • benzun_1999
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Undergrad Energy-time uncertainty relation in Heisenberg's principle

  • jimmy p
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Graduate Magnetic Monopoles detected? Mayhaps

  • Brad_Ad23
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Undergrad Maximum photocurrent in photoelectric effect

  • J-F
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Graduate Why does the Doppler-shifted photon frequency change the observed energy loss?

  • Pandemonium
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Will I See Warp Speed in My Lifetime?

  • Ronin84790
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Graduate Announcing QM Course: Study Group for JJ Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics

  • vanesch
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Graduate QM: Is Electron Behavior Random?

  • phoenixthoth
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Graduate Is the following operator hermitian? C|Phi> = |Phi>*

  • Allday
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Graduate How does the uncertainty principle affect epistemology?

  • selfAdjoint
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Undergrad I beleive that light is absorbed by the nucleus of an atom

  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Higher dimensions, quantum inflations, multiverses, and their interactions.

  • caumaan
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Graduate Schrödinger's cat comes closer: Nature

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Feyman's sum over path hypothesis

  • sage
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Graduate I need detailed information about the ionization of atomic hydrogen

  • schwinger55
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Graduate Quantum effects in very small scale numerical modelling

  • Tyro
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What is holeum?

  • nightbat
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Graduate Quantum Information Processing

  • eNtRopY
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Graduate What is the relationship between wavelength and probability for matter waves?

  • bhthiang
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Graduate Observation: more decoherence or interference?

  • Loren Booda
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Undergraduate thesis topic suggestions for quantum physics

  • jby
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Graduate Gravitational quantum detection

  • drag
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Graduate Does Bose Einstein Condensate Defy the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

  • Hyperreality
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Graduate Is Teleportation Scientifically Feasible?

  • Whitestar
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Graduate What Are Hardy's Axioms and Their Role in Quantum Theory?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Can dark matter/energy disobey special relativity?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Is time travel possible in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics?

  • Ontoplankton
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Graduate How about: Can realistic boundary conditions cure the Casimir energy divergence?

  • selfAdjoint
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Graduate Is It Valid to Use Free Theory Expansion in Interacting Field Theory?

  • selfAdjoint
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Graduate Attn: chi meson re. explination of bose-Einstein condensation

  • anilrapire
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Graduate When is a Photon Real or Virtual?

  • Tyger
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Graduate What are the key drawbacks of quantum theory?

  • Inquiring_Mike
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Graduate How do quantum orbitals prevent radiation in atoms?

  • Rockazella
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Graduate What is quantum theory?

  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Quantum Field Computation: Beyond Quantum Computing?

  • Ontoplankton
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Graduate Is It Possible to Overcome the H.U.P.?

  • Whitestar
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Graduate Can We Overcome The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

  • Whitestar
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Graduate Quantum Gravity and Inflation -a new paper

  • marcus
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Graduate Causality, the law of cause and effect

  • heusdens
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High School Tell me what is quantum theory?

  • benzun_1999
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High School What is Compton's effect and how did Compton do the experiment?

  • benzun_1999
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Graduate Oops, I accidentally figured out quantum uncertainty.

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Q-Element: Ancient Building Block of Heavens

  • Greg Bernhardt
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High School Good books on quantum mechanics?

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Graduate What is Bell's Theorem and its implications in quantum physics?

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Graduate What are some real experiments on Bose-Einstein Condensates?

  • Tyger
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Graduate Should helium's two electrons share one wave function or each have their own?

  • MiCasilla
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Graduate Separating the time-dependent Schrödinger equation

  • MiCasilla
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Graduate Separating the time dependent Schrödinger equation

  • MiCasilla
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Graduate Can the Casimir effect be harnessed for free energy and anti-gravity?

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Graduate How does QM represent the Poynting vector?

  • Rockazella
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Graduate Why does a second Stern-Gerlach apparatus split a spin-polarized beam?

  • MiCasilla
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain Freak Ocean Waves?

  • meemoe_uk
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Graduate Is Quantum Field Theory Logically Consistent?

  • davidpbrown
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Graduate Tunneling and transmission coefficient

  • Sacroiliac
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Graduate Quantum mechanics book for conceptual learners with weak math

  • Farn
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Graduate Could Virtual Wavefunctions Revolutionize Quantum Mechanics?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Physics today rely on an observer

  • sophia
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Graduate Is Quantum Physics Practical for Engineering Applications?

  • Farn
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Graduate Algorithm of the numerical decision of stochastic Shrodinger equation.

  • Alexey
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Graduate Topological quantum field theories

  • meteor
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Graduate Stochastic Shrodinger equations.

  • Alexey
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Graduate The Effects of Distance and Mass on the Casimir Force

  • r637h
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Graduate Superfluid model of quantum gravity?

  • subtillioN
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Graduate Quantum tunneling as transportation

  • Tiberius
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Graduate The Vacuum Energy is fictitious.

  • Tyger
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Graduate Quantum phenomena on different scales

  • Zhang Xu
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Graduate Can Macroscopic Objects Exist in Eigenstates?

  • jby
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Graduate I am here but i am also over there, can this be?

  • Andy
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Graduate Understanding Wave Packets and their Role in Particle Physics

  • jby
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Graduate What is the relationship between energy and position in quantum mechanics?

  • Sacroiliac
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Graduate Canonical Quantum Gravity-some history/bibliograph

  • marcus
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Graduate Double slit experiment with a gravitational wave detector instead of EM

  • drag
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Graduate Ashtekar quantum cosmology paper new this month

  • marcus
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Graduate Quantum geometry includes matter

  • marcus
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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity: Understanding How Gravity Occurs

  • Tyger
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Graduate Is Uncertainty the Key to Understanding Activity at a Quantum Level?

  • Selnex
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Graduate Bose Einstein condensate can be made to attract

  • wolram
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Graduate For how long does a measurement collapse a wave function?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Connection formulation in loop quantum gravity

  • marcus
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Graduate Explaining Quantum Theory Math

  • wolram
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Graduate Is Bearden's quantum physics article worth reading?

  • wolram
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Graduate What is the wave function of an atom in my table?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate What are spin networks and how do they give rise to space and matter?

  • jby
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Graduate Can we teleport a Big Mac using quantum technology?

  • Singularity
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Graduate How does the Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) explain quantum weirdness?

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