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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Undergrad Angular momentum and spin unit

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Undergrad Particle in a box, boundary co-ordinate change

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Graduate Infrared divergence from redshifting light in QED

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Undergrad Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Understanding PBR's Additional Assumption

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Undergrad Simulations that disprove the PBR theorem

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Undergrad Derivatives of a normalizable wavefunction

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Undergrad Some more questions about the PBR theorem

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Graduate Covariance of equal time commutation relations

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High School Can liquid helium conduct heat infinitely fast?

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Undergrad Is quantum mechanics formulated from 1st principles?

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Undergrad Does a Quantum Field Creation Operator Create Particles at a Given Location?

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Undergrad Detecting Interference Patterns with Large Objects: The Double Slit Experiment

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Undergrad Calculating the eigenvalue of orbital angular momentum

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Undergrad What does f(x) represent physically in expectation values?

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High School Double slit experiment w/ light shining thru one aperture only

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Undergrad Can the quantum eraser experiment produce two different interference patterns?

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Graduate Scanning Tunneling Microscope I-V curve

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Undergrad Can Quantum Suicide Be Modified to Create Quantum Insomnia?

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Undergrad Is Nature Non-Deterministic Due to Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad What are the fundamental quantum fields and which are physically real?

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Undergrad How Do Entangled Particles Communicate Information in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Does a free electron have an orbital magnetic moment?

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High School Understanding Wave-Particle Duality with Water Analogy

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Undergrad Retro-causality thought experiment

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Undergrad How Would Electron Entanglement Affect Photon Emission

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Undergrad Does spin orbit coupling cause the split in the energy level of the electron?

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High School China launches quantum-enabled satellite Micius

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Undergrad Open Source Quantum Mechanics Visualization Software

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Graduate Why does momentum generate only finite translations?

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Undergrad How can electrons have the same spin in triplet state?

  • Edge5
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Undergrad Unitary Processes and Completely Identical Quantum States

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Undergrad How Does the Wavefunction Evolve in Quantum Mechanics?

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High School Does light only behave like a particle when observed?

  • JustinB
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High School Why prefer Hubble law over stretching spacetime for cosmic expansion

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Undergrad What does spin quantum number mean?

  • Eve Litman
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Graduate Do causal principles apply to timelike entanglement and quantum superposition of orders?

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High School How to Determine Particle Probability with Constant Linear Momentum?

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Undergrad Fourier's Trick and calculation of Cn

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Undergrad Are some elementary particles too massive to obey QM?

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Undergrad In the Casimir effect, can you slide plates unopposed by force?

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High School Virtual Particles and nothingness

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Undergrad Why do photons interact with e- but not with other photons?

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Undergrad Light rays don't interfere with each other

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Graduate Why does nonrelativistic quantum theory lack PCT symmetry while QFT has it?

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Undergrad How Do You Transform Qubit States Between Different Bases on the Bloch Sphere?

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Undergrad From Indistinguishable to Completely Identical Particles

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High School Double Slit Experiment with Gamma Rays

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High School Multiverse with and without me

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Undergrad Confusion about Dirac notation

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Undergrad Probability Amplitudes and the History of Science

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Undergrad Estimate of ground state energy for the Yukawa potential

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Undergrad What is the effect of ionization at low densities?

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Undergrad Do eigenvectors of an operator form a one-dimensional representation?

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Undergrad Are there quark "shells", just as electrons have shells?

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Graduate Evaluate this paper on the derivation of the Born rule

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Undergrad ?Measuring the Strong Force: Strength vs Distance

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High School How do entangled particles exchange spin information instantaneously?

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Undergrad Role of determinate states in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Polarization vector sums in QED

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Graduate Does path integral formulation require quadratic Hamiltonian?

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Graduate Asymptotic states in gauge theories

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High School Feynman diagram with inconsistent time direction in IB Physics worksheet

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Undergrad Photons and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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High School Why would non-locality solve the time paradox in dcqe?

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Undergrad Why doesn't decoherence apply to unobserved experiments?

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High School Does QM Use n-Dimensional or Infinite Dimensional Integrals?

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Undergrad Obtain simultaneous eigenfunctions?

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Undergrad Is the Smallest Eigenvalue Always the Ground State Energy?

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High School How to determine the wavefunction of photons?

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Undergrad Can Quantum Tunneling Occur Through a Material Barrier?

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Undergrad In QFT people exchange electrons during touching?

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Undergrad Measurement OF a Beamsplitter - Destroys Quantum Interference?

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High School Navigation by detecting anomalies in Earth's magnetic field

  • Buzz Bloom
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High School Does dimensions have the same meaning in the Quantum world?

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Undergrad Trying to understand my prof's derivation of Planck's Law

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Undergrad Solving Operator Problem with Matrix Representation

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High School Entropy, irreversability, and the arrow of time

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Graduate Help Understanding a Quantum Circuit Identity

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Undergrad Generalized Momentum is a linear functional of Velocity?

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Undergrad Wavelength approaching the Planck length

  • YoungPhysicist
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High School Is the Universe Deterministic?

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Undergrad Why is the momentum operator -iℏ d/dx and position operator x?

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Undergrad Photon absorption and electron ejection in the photoelectric effect

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Undergrad Why does a BEC manifest no atom bunching?

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Undergrad Can an electron be found outside the atom it belongs to?

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High School What tells us photons were ever in a superposition in EPR

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Undergrad Want some suggestions for research papers on quantum entanglement

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Undergrad Is Quantum Electrodynamics relevant to every electromagnetic field?

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Graduate Are quantum fields real objects in space?

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High School Why expand energy and states as power series in the perturbation parameter

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Undergrad Linear Algebra and Identity Operator Generalized to 3D

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Undergrad How does a nanogenerator work in quantum field theory?

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Undergrad Value of orbital angular momentum for two particles

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Undergrad About the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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Undergrad Would this experiment prove or disprove quantum randomness?

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Undergrad Wick's theorem and Nucleon scattering

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Undergrad General Concepts About Fermi-Dirac Distribution

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Undergrad Does "Decoherence" really explain anything?

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Undergrad Are the diagonal elements of a density matrix the squared wave amplitudes?

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