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 What is the highest frequency of electromagnetic radiation?

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High School Is this a "fair" description of entanglement for a student?

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Undergrad Inner products on a Hilbert space

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Undergrad Entangled Photons in Opposite-Configured Mach–Zehnder Interferometers

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Undergrad Can Schrodinger's cat apply to things other than alive/dead?

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Graduate Reproducing Quantum Experiments

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Undergrad Is the degeneracy of N2+ different from N2?

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High School Can entanglement timing correlations encode information faster than light?

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Interacting Quantum Fields - Comments

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High School Are atoms just subparticles trying to stay in existence?

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Graduate The stability of matter: is really Maxwell wrong? (part 2).

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Undergrad Green's functions in QFT for the gifted amateur

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High School Can a screen detect measurement without revealing what was measured?

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Undergrad Does 'fungibility' exist in physics?

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Undergrad Dirac equation as one equation for one function

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Undergrad HHL Algorithm for Solving Linear Equations

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Undergrad Radiofrequncy Photon Wavefunction

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Graduate Why do copper, gold and cesium have special colors?

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Undergrad Can an observed atom collapse back into a wave?

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High School Observation in the double-slit experiment

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Graduate Quantum Optics: Squeezed light generation

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Undergrad What's Known about the Wave Function and Gravity

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Undergrad FTL communication via delayed choice measurement

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Undergrad Why is the wave function associated with single photons, not collections?

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Undergrad When should I use a plus or minus sign in space and time translations?

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High School Entanglement and delayed choice measurements

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High School Is Bell's parameter really a hidden variable ?

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High School White dwarf quantum tunnelling

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Undergrad Oracle questions in Grover's Algorithm

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Undergrad Does measuring spin on any axis work for a singlet state?

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Undergrad Particle goes through a double slit + decays, what happens?

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Graduate Quantum measurement and entropy

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High School How could a Majorana fermion exist?

  • YoungPhysicist
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High School Theories of Quantum Physics, do they exist?

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High School Time emergent from entanglement

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Undergrad World selection in case of entanglement measurement

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Undergrad Is there a simple explanation for Fermi-Dirac statistics?

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Undergrad Solving the Representation of d/dq: Mistake in Reasoning?

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High School Quantum teleportation from a Curious 10 year Old

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Undergrad Standard boost, particles with mass M > 0

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High School The Nature of Measurement and Interaction in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Why are all particles of the same type identical?

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Undergrad Finding expansion coefficient of a 3-d Gaussian wave packet

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High School Is wave-particle duality a result of the relativity theory?

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High School Applying Einstein Equivalence to the Quantum Realm

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Undergrad Why is e^ikx considered a plane wave?

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High School Imaging of Light as a Particle and a Wave

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High School Does time emerge from quantum entanglement?

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Undergrad Difference between an electromagnetic field and a photon?

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Undergrad Dimensions of the double slits in comparison to the electron?

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Undergrad Finding |Ψ(x,t)|² for a free particle wave packet

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Undergrad Imaginary Part of QHO Solutions?

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Graduate First material with both topological and superconducting properties

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Graduate Vacuum in interacting QFT and physical particles

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Graduate What is quantum synchronization?

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Undergrad Heisenberg - Uncertainty principle - lifetime of a particle

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Undergrad Would Schrödinger's bomb be as uncertain as his cat?

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Undergrad Photon detectors in a double slit experiment

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Undergrad Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (QHO)

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Undergrad Can Time Measurement with Mirrors in Special Relativity Be Improved?

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High School Photon Gas in a Box w/ Heat Conductor

  • Bruce Haawkins
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High School Tendency to use entropy to explain everything

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Undergrad Understanding second quantization

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Undergrad Commuting set of operators (misunderstanding)

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Undergrad What is the Average Angle of Infrared Emission from a Flat Diamond Surface?

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Undergrad How Do Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Loop Gravity Explain the Quantum World?

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Undergrad Is a measurement a correlation?

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Undergrad Identity Operator for Multiple Particles

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Undergrad Recovering Fermion States in New Formalism?

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High School Assumption of the conservation of energy to Heat Flow

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High School Probabilities with a Bell's state

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Undergrad Probability density functions for velocity and position

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High School Carrier wave double slit experiment

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Undergrad Is There Only One True Outcome in the Many-Worlds Interpretation?

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High School Zeno Effect: Quantifying the Impact of Observation on Events

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Undergrad Why do infinite-dimensional matrices represent x and p operators?

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Graduate Why did Dirac strongly pursue mathematical beauty?

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High School Is Randomness in Quantum Mechanics Truly Non-Deterministic?

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Graduate Is energy contained in matter wave equals hv like EM waves?

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Undergrad Big Bell Test Collaboration: Challenging Local Realism with Human Choices

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Undergrad Determinism of Macroscopic World

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High School Are electrons virtual particles?

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Undergrad I can't understand this excerpt from a QM book

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Undergrad How many bits or bytes of information are present in 1 atom

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Undergrad Measuring combined spin of two particles and spin conservation in annihilation

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High School Understanding Absence of a Microscopic Arrow of Time

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Undergrad Which law/formula proves the existence of antimatter?

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Undergrad Decorrelate 2 particles initially entangled

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Undergrad Zeno effect - standard derivation?

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Graduate What is the difference between second quantization and QFT?

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High School How do quantum computers perform simple arithmetic operations?

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Graduate Do bosons follow Boltzmann statistics if imaged individually?

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Graduate Thermal Field Theory: Calculating Angular Distribution of CMB

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High School Is the kinetic energy of a particle quantized?

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High School Do Quantum Fields Move Relative to Each Other?

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Undergrad 3p->2s: Why spectral line split into three lines in m. field

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Undergrad How to increase the energy of an electron

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Undergrad Are magnetic Ising-like dipoles advanced territory? [in Portugese]

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High School Time average value of Spin operator

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