Quantum Physics Forum

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High School Is the Evidence for Quantum Entanglement in Bacteria Strong Enough?

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Graduate Power of a Quantum Cascade laser by theory

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Undergrad Ejection of Only one electron by a Photon in the Photoelectric effect

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Undergrad Self-interference in double-slit experiments

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Graduate Canonical Quantization: Steps to Find iħ

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Insights The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Popescu-Rohrlich Correlations - Comments

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Undergrad How was the spdf orbital designation derived?

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Undergrad How to prove SO(1,3)=SU(2)+SU(2)

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High School Any quotes from verified physicists about superposition?

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High School Does a photon's wave function collapse if it never interacts with mass?

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High School Does a photon's probability get affected by a medium it doesn't enter?

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Undergrad Why time intervals are calculable from measurements despite not being observables

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Graduate Novel entangled photon source with heralding

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Undergrad Stimulated emission when photon energy doesn't match the energy level difference

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Undergrad Computing inner products of spherical harmonics

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Undergrad Understanding Electron Behavior in Quantum Tunneling through Dielectrics

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Undergrad Summing Divergent Series and Borel Summation

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Undergrad Probability current density

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Undergrad Represenation of a state vector in a different basis

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Undergrad What is the relationship between Maxwell's equations and quantum field theory?

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High School Does the EPR experiment imply QM is incomplete?

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Undergrad Problem with section in Schwartz's QFT text

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High School Computer-simulated quantum physics?

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Undergrad Is the ground state energy of a quantum field actually zero?

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Undergrad Particle creation, energy density and the Compton wavelength

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High School Superposition - is the theory valid?

  • Svenns
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High School How to think of molecular orbitals quantum mechanically

  • Sophrosyne
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Graduate Information and successive measurments

  • Higgsono
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Undergrad Why is separation constant l(l+1) instead of +-l^2?

  • Rupul Chandna
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High School How Can a Hydrogen Atom Emit Multiple Colors Simultaneously?

  • Bassel AbdulSabour
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Undergrad Arguments against instantaneous collapse

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Undergrad Gauge transformation preserves what?

  • kiki_danc
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Graduate Quantum synchronization description used in a paper

  • Danny Boy
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Undergrad Is Simultaneity still alive in QM?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Is Chronology Protection Still Relevant in Modern Physics?

  • ErikZorkin
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Undergrad Lorentz invariance and equation of motion for a scalar field

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High School How does observation collapse the wave function in double slit experiments?

  • JaredMessenger
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Graduate Young's double slit experiment with excited atoms

  • PaleMoon
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Undergrad Does decoherence preserve information in the environment?

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad Quantum effects and black hole singularities in loop quantum gravity

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High School Pilot-wave is No More, Pilot-wave cracked by Bohr

  • jedishrfu
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Undergrad Can the Born rule be derived from many-worlds interpretation?

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Graduate Study Chern-Simons Invariant: Understanding 3-Manifold Measurement

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Undergrad Causality and quantum physics

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High School Is entanglement severed after the first interaction?

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High School Change of variables in quantum harmonic oscillator equation

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Undergrad Does the Casimir effect violate Lorentz invariance?

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Undergrad Validity of a paper on the standard conclusions from Bell, etc

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Undergrad Difference between integrals in mathematics and quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Rigorous definition of particles being far apart in QFT

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High School Does simulation theory explain quantum tunneling and measurement?

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Graduate The half harmonic oscillator's ground state wave function

  • Apashanka
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Undergrad Why can't we extract λ from φφ→φφ scattering in Schwartz QFT 15.4.1?

  • HomogenousCow
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Undergrad Checking my understanding about how massive particle states transform

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High School What really is the charge of the electron?

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Undergrad The total derivative of a wavefunction

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Graduate Independence of Operator expectation values

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Undergrad Time-dependence in probability amplitudes

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Undergrad Weinberg gives relations of SO(3)

  • kent davidge
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Undergrad How Does the Rotation Operator Affect Spin in Quantum Mechanics?

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High School Energy of an electron = energy of photon emitted(?)

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High School Can repeated measurements circumvent Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

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Undergrad Does the uncertainty principle apply to particles at a black hole singularity?

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High School Quantum Mechanics: Superposition of 2 States?

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High School Treating a galaxy as a quantum system

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Graduate Why is the partition for Fermions a sum of Boltzman factors?

  • Philip Koeck
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Undergrad Why are spinors not observables?

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Orthonormal Basis of Wavefunctions in Hilbert Space

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Undergrad How do I derive the general expression for delta p times delta x?

  • montecarlous
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Undergrad Why do physical electrons have spatial extension rather than point mass?

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Can [A,B^n] always equal 0 if [A,B] equals 0?

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Graduate Dirac's solution to the Klein-Gordon equation

  • Philip Land
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Undergrad Historical basis for: measurement <-> linear operator?

  • Stephen Tashi
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Undergrad Exploring the De Broglie Wave and Momentum in a Trapped Particle's Excited State

  • Apashanka
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Graduate Fourier transform of outgoing spherical waves

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High School Creation and annihilation operators in particle physics

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Undergrad Hermitian Operator Proof - Question

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Undergrad Polarizing filter not extinguish the wave although 90 degree polarizers

  • Felipe Lincoln
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Undergrad On Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

  • Ssnow
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High School Does anybody think that there is an underlying reality?

  • clive williams-not
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Graduate Query in Zeidler's Volume II QFT

  • Avogadro Number
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Insights Interview with astrophysicist Adam Becker

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Insights Why the quantum: a response to Wheeler's 1986 paper

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Undergrad Light Through Matter: Quantum Mechanics & Complex Vectors

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Undergrad Feynman, Hibbs Transition Amplitudes and Energy

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High School Dynamics of the double slit experiment

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Undergrad How does the Franck-Hertz experiment demonstrate energy quantization in atoms?

  • Pushoam
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Undergrad Solving SE for Particle in Box: Energy Level Relation

  • Yajee
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Graduate 2-d and 3-d model for contact resistance of M/n-Si (book?)

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High School Quantum mechanics defies causal order

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Graduate Nanotube diameter versus emitting wavelength

  • Bruce Haawkins
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Undergrad Photons in the photoelectric efect

  • Bruce Haawkins
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High School Entangled electrons in the Stern-Gerlach experiment?

  • Quarky nerd
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Graduate Measuring the spin of a moving Dirac spinor particle

  • Alhaurin
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Undergrad Double slit one source same as no slits with two sources?

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High School Is there an experiment proving observer dependency exists?

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High School Does quickly removing the detector restore the interference pattern?

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High School Meaning of Wave Function Collapse

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Android robotics, quantum physics lab

  • juzzy
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Undergrad Would this experiment prove consciousness causes collapse

  • john taylor
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