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 Covariance Matrices and Standard form

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Undergrad Problem with classical electrostatic potential energy

  • zonde
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Undergrad Do identical particles really exist?

  • LarryS
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High School How do we maintain a system in a non-dertministic state?

  • Grinkle
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Undergrad Finding de Broglie's Original Paper on Matter Waves

  • Sandeep T S
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Graduate Scalar-scalar scattering Feynman diagram

  • Glenn Rowe
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Graduate (How) Does TQFT actually describe a physical theory?

  • NathanaelNolk
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Undergrad The energy-time uncertainty principle

  • eprparadox
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High School Do fractional spins like 4/5 exist?

  • jk22
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Graduate Evolution operator in QFT - why Schrodinger?

  • Glenn Rowe
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High School How long does it take to detect entanglement?

  • platosuniverse
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Undergrad Entanglement correlations vs. timelike measurement events?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Quantum Field Energy: What Happens When it Tends to Zero?

  • James Slater
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Undergrad Alternative formula for the Hamiltonian

  • grzz
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High School Is String Theory Built On Funny Math?

  • bhobba
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Undergrad Why do photons lose energy due to the emitter's velocity?

  • gmalcolm77
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High School In parallel universes, everything that can happen happens, but why?

  • empleat
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Undergrad How the wavelength of a photon is measured experimentally?

  • Sandeep T S
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Graduate Quantum Mechanic Symposium London

  • QuantPhy
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Undergrad Particle Physics and Quantum Mechanics

  • crastinus
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High School Ways to understand the delayed entanglement swapping

  • Joao
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Undergrad Lorentz Invarience and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

  • Hot stuff
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High School Is the electron of Phosphorus entangled with its nucleus?

  • Laith1
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Graduate Quantum electrodynamics and the brain

  • Anne Ross
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Undergrad Total spin in multiparticle system

  • hideelo
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Undergrad Derivation of the partition function

  • Mentz114
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Undergrad Eigenkets belonging to a range of eigenvalues

  • Spin One
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Undergrad Can field energy transfer between fields during interactions in QFT?

  • asimov42
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Graduate TD perturbation - state initially in continuous part

  • Nemanja989
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High School Does Locality in Quantum Mechanics Exclude Retrocausality?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Prove that TDSE is invariant under Galilean Transformation.

  • Viraj Daniel Dsouza
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High School Why position and momentum cannot be simultaneously specified in quantum theory

  • PGaccount
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Graduate Violating conservation of momentum and its resolution

  • jfizzix
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Undergrad How Long Does a Particle Stay in a Quantum Potential Well?

  • andrewtz98
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Graduate A paradox for bosons with non-degenerate states?

  • Philip Koeck
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High School Transfering spin onto a macroscopic object

  • SlowThinker
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Undergrad Can you hermitianly conjugate both sides of a bra-ket equation?

  • Somali_Physicist
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High School How to shorten this speech about BH?

  • avischiffman
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High School What is quantum entanglement and how it effects the space-time

  • Dhruv007
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Undergrad What is a Gaussian Wave Packet?

  • William Estlick
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Undergrad Energy measurement on superposition of states

  • eprparadox
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Graduate What is the significance of the variable lambda in Bell's locality assumption?

  • martinbn
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Graduate Deriving equation 11 from the Keldysh rotation

  • Christian_K_K
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Graduate Is there an Expression for Entropy of Fermions or Bosons?

  • Philip Koeck
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Undergrad Understanding particle/wave duality and the Wave Function

  • Kvothecomplex
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Graduate Restricted Open Shell Hartree Fock Method

  • twist.1995
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Undergrad Interval in Quantum Mechanics?

  • kent davidge
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Undergrad What an electron in an atom will do when given more energy

  • Ahsan Khan
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High School Quantum Field Theory and Electrcity

  • arnoldcena3000
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Undergrad Quantum Field Theory -- Does electron have infinity size?

  • arnoldcena3000
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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Spaces In Quantum Mechanics

  • bhobba
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory. Electric discharge

  • arnoldcena3000
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Undergrad What is the Difference between the lottery and QM?

  • JohnSmart
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Graduate Is Chapter 5's Approach to the Photoelectric Effect Unique in QFT Literature?

  • bolbteppa
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Undergrad Double slit experiment with one observer measuring which slit

  • GiuseppeP
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High School Why doesn't the plate interact with the particle in double slit?

  • platosuniverse
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Undergrad Physical meaning of the identity matrix as an observable in quantum mechanics

  • Marrrrrrr
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Undergrad Is information lost in wavefunction collapse?

  • MichPod
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Graduate Rigorous transition from discrete to continuous basis

  • Alex Cros
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Undergrad How to think about partially entangled states

  • zonde
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High School Photon reflection probability in quantum electrodynamics

  • Marc_72
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Undergrad Nonrelativistic limit of scalar field theory

  • stevendaryl
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Undergrad What does the Klein-Gordon equation mean for field operators in QFT?

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Expectation for the Harmonic Oscillator ( using dirac)

  • Somali_Physicist
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Undergrad How Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Relate to Statistics?

  • Erribert
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Graduate Weinberg's massless field coefficient relation in QFT Vol 1

  • hgandh
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Graduate Classical uncertainty principle

  • Jeffrey Freed
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Graduate Commutation relations for bosons and fermions

  • Higgsono
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Undergrad Spin conservation in the Dirac equation

  • chingel
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Graduate Null measurement in the which-path experiments

  • Rob Field
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Graduate Quantizing the complex Klein-Gordon field

  • Nauj Onerom
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Undergrad Wave function collapse and measurement rule

  • emdezla
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High School Does Schrödinger's cat apply only to quantum systems?

  • BernieM
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Undergrad Finite square well bound states

  • andrewtz98
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High School Conjugation , involving operators in Dirac Notation.

  • Somali_Physicist
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Undergrad Are basis states or superpositions considered qubits in a two-level system?

  • eprparadox
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Undergrad How Does Measurement Affect Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics?

  • dRic2
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Undergrad Quantum Computing and Superposition of states

  • eprparadox
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Undergrad Is consciousness necessary to collapse the wave function?

  • deathonimpact
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Undergrad Momentum/Position space wave function

  • WeiShan Ng
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Undergrad Can Quantum Entanglement Be Used to Transfer Information?

  • niko_.97
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High School Why does Pm² = Pm if |m|² · |m|² = |m|⁴?

  • Somali_Physicist
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Undergrad Detailed derivation of GHZ theorem for 3 particles

  • facenian
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Undergrad What is the physical meaning of Bogoliubov transformation?

  • patric44
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Undergrad Definition and Rules of Quantum State Observation

  • Jarvis323
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High School Photon particle independent of wave question

  • kurt101
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Graduate Atomic state that is a coherent superposition?

  • meyol99
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Undergrad Neutrino masses and oscillation

  • JMz
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Undergrad Classical vs quantum probability distribution for the harmonic oscillator

  • WeiShan Ng
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Undergrad Dynamical Casmir Effect in expanding space?

  • jcap
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Undergrad Why does spontaneous emission occur but not spontaneous absorption?

  • Silviu
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Undergrad What does a black hole look like as it evaporates near the end?

  • nolxiii
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Undergrad Commuting observables for Fermion fields?

  • maline
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Graduate Non-Computability of Hidden Variables

  • DarMM
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Undergrad Degenerate Perturbation Theory

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Quantum Scattering Differential Probability

  • CDL
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Undergrad Can Quantum Mechanics Be Both Probabilistic and Deterministic?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Uncertainty relation derivation

  • Somali_Physicist
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High School Polarization Basis: Measuring Entangled Photons in 45/135

  • StevieTNZ
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Undergrad Two-State Vector Formalism - I like it

  • .Scott
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