Quantum Physics Forum

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Undergrad Who did this experiment with photons?

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Undergrad Why does quantum mechanics believe that gravity is a field?

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Undergrad What Is the Origin of Unruh Temperature and Its Implications?

  • PGaccount
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Undergrad Book on quantum field theory without heavy mathematics

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High School How Are 2D Standing Waves Extended to 3D in Quantum Mechanics?

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High School Gram-Schimidt orthonormalization for three eigenvectors

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Undergrad Why must the x² coefficient vanish in the quantum harmonic oscillator?

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Undergrad How Does a Photon Know Which Slit to Pass Through in a Double Slit Experiment?

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Undergrad Identify the charge and strangeness of particle Y

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High School Why do photons only interact with charged particles?

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Graduate Regarding Coleman's Sine-Gordon Duality

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Graduate Bosonization Formula and its Effects on Fermion Number

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Graduate Relation between spin dephasing time T2* and spin relaxation time

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Undergrad Delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment

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High School Can someone help me understand as well as validate this article

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Undergrad Heavier bosons and their function and detection

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Graduate Can decoherence be associated with heat generation?

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Undergrad Is Quantum Mechanics Truly Time-Reversal Symmetric?

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Undergrad Is the product of two hermitian matrices always hermitian?

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High School Do virtual particles travel at light speed or have virtual rest mass?

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Graduate Simultanious eigenstate of Hubbard Hamiltonian and Spin operator in tw

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Undergrad Is Time Travel Possible with Entangled Particles?

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Graduate How far can one change a model before it leaves the universality class

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Undergrad Time independent perturbation theory in atom excitation

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Undergrad Anticommutators of the spin-1 representation

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Graduate Is the Landau pole in QED an artifact of perturbative methods?

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Undergrad What is the physical meaning of <p>?

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Graduate Creation/annihilation operators and trigonometric functions

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Undergrad (In)dependence in entanglement experiments

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Undergrad Describing entanglement collapse with absolute time

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Undergrad Relationship between Planck Distribution and Quantization of Energy

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Undergrad Metal Semiconductor contact (Part 2)

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Graduate Does Fermi level change at metal-semiconductor contact?

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Graduate Find Reduced Mass for Polyatomic Molecules

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Graduate Confusion about 2016 Unruh paper - fluctuating vacuum energy density?

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Graduate Is the Berry connection metric compatible and torsion-free?

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Undergrad "Spatial Width," "Coherence Length," and the Measurement Problem

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Graduate Particle production in 1+1D QFT

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High School Beta decay and the down quark.

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Undergrad Influence on world's number and Bell's theorem

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High School Kinetic and potential energy of electrons in semiconductor band diagrams

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Undergrad What did Bohr mean by applying spacetime and energy-momentum relations twice?

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Undergrad Annihilation/creation operator question

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Undergrad Hermitian operators in QM and QFT

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High School What causes quantum uncertainty?

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High School Is information lost when a photon is absorbed?

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Undergrad How to collapse a water wave through a double slit into particle behaviour?

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Undergrad Energy levels from the propagator

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Undergrad Is an electron's spin always in some definite direction?

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Graduate Proof - gauge transformation of yang mills field strength

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Undergrad Why doesn't high-energy positron-electron annihilation produce more gamma rays?

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Graduate Can wavefunction collapse be reconciled with SR through sheaf cohomology?

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Graduate Massive gauge bosons in QFT in/out states

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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Embrace Symmetry and Causality?

  • Huang
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Undergrad How can atomic decay be random if half-life is so precise?

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Undergrad Can a free particle have a definite energy in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Transition probability density between two transmitted states

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Undergrad Doesn't the superposition in energy violate the conservation of energy

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Graduate Explicit form of annihilation and creation operators for Dirac field

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Undergrad Inadequate proof of Bloch's theorem?

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Undergrad Is an atomic electron transition a phase transition?

  • Huang
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High School Wave function collapse and relativity of simultaneity in entanglement

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Undergrad When is a system coherent or decoherent?

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Undergrad Confusion with superposition of states

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Graduate How Does Quantum Field Theory Preserve Causality?

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Undergrad Equation for levitation forces between the magnets and superconductor

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Graduate Understanding time invariant of EM

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Undergrad Do photons experience a reaction force when they interact with matter?

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Undergrad Spooky action at a distance by electrons?

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Undergrad How does the von Neumann equation relate to Schrödinger's equation?

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Undergrad Why we need completeness of eigenfuntions for QM to be internally consistent?

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High School Is Born's Rule Commutative in Quantum State Measurements?

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Undergrad Confusion about factoring in quantum computation

  • Haorong Wu
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Undergrad Preferred orientation of a nitrogen molecule in space?

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High School Does quantum mechanics treat time as absolute?

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Undergrad Photon states and interference in an Interferometer

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Undergrad Would distinguishable particles experience bonding?

  • Happiness
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Undergrad Clebsch-Gordan coefficients and their sign

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Undergrad Wave function when there is coupling between spin and position

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High School Quarks and Antiquarks in a baryon

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High School Can a Quark Tunnel Out of a Proton?

  • Tumorsito
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Undergrad How to be sure we have found all magnetic quantum numbers?

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Undergrad How to choose the way an excited electron loses energy?

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Undergrad Is the Born Rule Derivable from Other Postulates in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Can an electron in a spherically symmetric potential have non-zero spin?

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Undergrad Excited electrons' behaviour, how do they work?

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Undergrad Why does an electron orbital have a preferred z axis?

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High School Is a Universe Without Parallel Universes Possible in the Multiverse Theory?

  • Colonel Travis
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High School Might all physical quantities be quantized?

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Undergrad Double slit with quarter wave plates and polarizing detector

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Graduate How can we derive the results that we know about QM from QED?

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High School IB Physics Extended Essay - Quantum Levitation

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Undergrad How electrons absorb or emit photons

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Undergrad Does a Gaussian wave packet remain Gaussian?

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Graduate Why does perturbation theory break down in QED bound states like hydrogen?

  • Jamister
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Undergrad Electric dipole moment of the nucleus of an atom

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Undergrad Are time and space continuous or discrete?

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Undergrad Voltage between electron and proton in ground state hydrogen atom?

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High School What Are Quantum Fields and How Do They Relate to Particles?

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High School I formulating a research question for my Extended Essay

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