Quantum Physics Forum

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Graduate Photon direction as hidden variable in a double slit expt?

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Undergrad How does the 3rd electron know the spins of the first 2 electrons?

  • Silviu
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Graduate Momentum Energy tensor and Wilson Loop in Yang-Mills Theory

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Undergrad Can something be caused and be ontologically random?

  • JordanPolla
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Graduate Is there a gravitational variant of the Schwinger limit?

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Graduate Confusion about the Z factor(Renormalization factor)

  • phylz
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Undergrad Difference between Schrodinger's equation and wave function?

  • Kiley
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Undergrad Wave function in rotating reference frames

  • sweet springs
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Graduate Calculating the spontaneous emission rate for a material

  • Lior Fa
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Undergrad Relativistic hidden variable quantum mechanics?

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High School Testing spacetime collapse at absolute zero

  • Michael Johnson
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Undergrad There are no particles, only fields

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High School What, in essence, distinguishes light from matter?

  • thephystudent
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High School Feynman experiment with bullets

  • Z3kr0m
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Undergrad Why do we need the position operator?

  • Phys12
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High School F = dP/dt on subatomic particles

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

  • fog37
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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 What are weak hypercharge and weak isospin physically?

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

  • Nur Ziadah
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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 Why does the Bloch sphere show -1 values if qubits only resolve to 0 or 1?

  • 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 Do SU(3) generators correspond to physical quantities?

  • fresh_42
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Graduate Helium atom, variation method and virial theorem

  • Aleolomorfo
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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?

  • hilbert2
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Undergrad How to pick an operator onto which the wavefunction collapses

  • fluidistic
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High School Entanglement between photons that never coexisted setup

  • Joao
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Undergrad Why phase velocity differs from particle velocity in free particle solution

  • 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)

  • asimov42
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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

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Undergrad How do I state and understand Ehrenfest's theorem?

  • 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

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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 Partition function summing all states vs eigenstates for spin-1/2

  • hammer123
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Undergrad Partition function for spin-1/2 in magnetic field using all states

  • hammer123
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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

  • Point Conception
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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 Are measurement collapse and wave-particle duality the same problem?

  • 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 Proving Kaku equation 8.18 by completing the square

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

  • Karagoz
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Graduate Studying quantum mechanics outside of professional fields

  • Dusty912
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Undergrad Where did Newton express his misgivings about 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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