Quantum Physics Forum

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Undergrad Why Does a Blackbody Emit Broadband Radiation from Monochromatic Light?

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Undergrad What is the criteria for bound states

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Undergrad What's the significance of HUP if Ψ collapses?

  • Phys12
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Undergrad Two particles Dirac type equation question

  • ftr
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High School Do Black Holes Destroy Information?

  • TheQuestionGuy14
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Undergrad Photon Directionality: Do Opposite Photons Change Direction?

  • intervoxel
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High School Is Max Born's probabilistic proposal artificial?

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Undergrad The weak force as an attractive force

  • cmcraes
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Undergrad How good is this PBS video at explaining weak hyper-charge?

  • cmcraes
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Undergrad What is the meaning of coherent states of mean photon number

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Undergrad What happens if B measures the x-axis spin in an entangled pair?

  • jeremyfiennes
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Undergrad Quantum Zeno effect to influence a particle's movement

  • Pierre Parent
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Undergrad How Does the Dirac Equation Utilize Component Functions in Its Derivation?

  • exponent137
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Undergrad Tunneling through a finite potential barrier

  • BearY
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Undergrad Is Braket Notation Causing Confusion in Quantum Mechanics?

  • DuckAmuck
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High School Quick question about Bloch's sphere

  • Joao
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Undergrad Why is radioactive decay so rare?

  • cmcraes
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Undergrad History of the Universe and measured outcomes

  • entropy1
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Graduate Vacuum in QFT: Fock space or effective potential?

  • Krudak Krudak
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Undergrad SU(3) Generators & Physical Quantity Corresp.

  • fresh_42
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Graduate Helium atom, variation method and virial theorem

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Undergrad Perturbative versus nonperturbative quantum mechanics

  • Riotto
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Graduate How Does a Particle's Energy State Change in a Non-Uniform 2D Corridor?

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Undergrad How to pick an operator onto which the wavefunction collapses

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High School The setup of "2012 entanglement between photons that (....)"

  • Joao
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Undergrad Help with Schoedinger´s equation when V(x)=0

  • DaTario
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Undergrad Find the energy from the graph of the wave function

  • HastiM
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Undergrad Determining the state from observation?

  • pellman
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Undergrad Correlation setup between past and present

  • entropy1
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High School Can we observe 2 electrons at the same time?

  • DARKSYDE
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Undergrad Does the concept of infinite parallel universes justify absurdities?

  • bland
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Undergrad What's the effect of E-field for an electron in a solid?

  • howl
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High School Library of Babel quantum state

  • Juanchotutata
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Graduate Cause and effect and quantum field theory

  • arupel
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Graduate Discrete Models for Arguments and Continuous Variables in Quantum Mechanics

  • Derek P
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Undergrad Spin Angular Momentum Dirac Equation

  • Bob Dylan
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Undergrad What does this equation for a free particle mean?

  • Rob Turrentine
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Undergrad Photon emission, power output (and black holes)

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Insights Interview with Mathematician and Physicist Arnold Neumaier - Comments

  • A. Neumaier
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Graduate Semi Classical Explanation of Stimulated Emission

  • Super Sujan
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Graduate Rigorous interacting effective QFT in d=4?

  • Gedankenspiel
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Graduate Information of system vs system, apparatus and environment

  • Danny Boy
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Undergrad Heisenberg and the wave-particle dualism

  • parton
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Undergrad Ehrenfest Theorem: Enunciate & Implications for Classical/Quantum Mechanics

  • mjda
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Undergrad Heisenberg Uncertainty vs Measurement Error

  • Derek P
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Undergrad Is the Dirac free equation actually free

  • ftr
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Graduate Equation in a paper about Dicke states

  • Danny Boy
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Graduate What does this article mean? (The holographic principle and M-cosmology)

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Two particle system, products and entanglement

  • fog37
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Graduate Is irreducibility justified as a Wightman axiom?

  • Peter Morgan
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Undergrad Epistemic view of the wave function leads to superluminal signal

  • MichPod
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Undergrad Help with a partition function calculation

  • hammer123
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Undergrad Help with partition function calculation

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Undergrad Does quantum physics predict all isotope decays

  • bland
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Graduate Decoherence of measurement outcomes

  • Johny Boy
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High School Subatomic particles and the observer

  • Kenneth Boon Faker
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Undergrad Stefan-Bolzmann law in n-dimensions, what is wrong

  • exponent137
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Undergrad Generalizing the Bell Inequality for Arbitrary Measurement Axes

  • lowea001
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High School A view of the double-slit experiment

  • Qhmu
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High School CDP: Non Classical Correlations at Spacelike Separation

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Undergrad Qualitative plots of harmonic oscillator wave function

  • eprparadox
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Undergrad Does measuring an atom collapse the wavefunction of its parts?

  • friend
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High School Quantum entanglement and special relativity

  • kochanskij
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High School The HUP in absence of observers

  • Gerinski
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High School A couple of questions about photons and superposition..

  • Karagoz
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High School What is the minimum voltage required to get characteristic spectrum

  • Samar A
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High School Electron Gun for a Grade 9 Physics Project?

  • Jake2003
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Undergrad Electrons Emitting Photons And Ambient Light

  • D English
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High School Is quantum physics "retro-deterministic"?

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Is the Born Rule Justifiable in Particle Detection?

  • Jilang
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High School Can a Particle Near a Black Hole Eliminate String Vibration?

  • James0123
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High School Semiconductor's sensistivity to light

  • Somali_Physicist
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Undergrad Measurement Problems in Quantum Mechanics: Wave/Particle Duality

  • Rob Field
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Graduate Is Mutation related to quantum jump?

  • tze liu
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Undergrad Ring or the shell in Bremsstrahlung?

  • tze liu
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Undergrad Proof of Kaku (8.18): Completing the Square and Using Spiegel's Result

  • rocdoc
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High School Why 50% of entangled photons pass through the polarizer?

  • Karagoz
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Graduate Anyone here study quantum mechanics for fun?

  • Dusty912
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Undergrad What were Newton's thoughts on non-locality?

  • Derek P
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High School What is the underlying reason for stimulated emission?

  • physics loverq
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Graduate How is the von Klitzing constant used to measure resistance?

  • Harisk
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High School What does the 'space' inside an atom consist of?

  • Kenneth Boon Faker
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Undergrad Probabilities Associated with Sudden Changes in Potential

  • CDL
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Undergrad Do these Bell inequalities rely on probability concept?

  • zonde
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Undergrad How the probability amplitude is estimated in practice

  • microsansfil
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Graduate How to relate the expansion term to Feynman diagrams

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Undergrad Superposition of particle identities

  • bsaucer
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High School Single photons and expanding spheres of light

  • Zebulin
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Undergrad Path Integrals in Quantum Theory

  • rocdoc
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Undergrad What basically is Klein tunneling ?

  • phywithAK
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High School Does Observing an Entangled Particle Affect Its Superposition?

  • Allen_Wolf
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Undergrad Measurement of the mean value of the number of photons?

  • Pattarasak
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Undergrad When Should the Bohr Atom Behave Classically?

  • Sahar ali
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High School Exactly why FTLC is impossible with entangled photons?

  • Karagoz
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Graduate Why Do Feynman Rules Successfully Model Particle Interactions?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad A computational model of Bell correlations

  • PAllen
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Undergrad QM Orthogonality: Separate & Independent Eigenvalues?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Symmetric and Antisymmetric Wavefunction

  • fog37
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Graduate Stochastic signal analysis in QM

  • Peter Morgan
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Undergrad Baryon asymmetry of the universe

  • Kajagoogooooooo
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