Quantum Physics Forum

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Undergrad Quantum nonlocality and entanglement

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Undergrad What does a zero-value of the Born-condition mean?

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Undergrad Noncommuting observables and indeterminacy principle

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Undergrad Is this a Stirling number of the second kind?

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Undergrad Principles of a Second Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Propagators - Comments

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Undergrad Does light exist between events?

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory -- Equations? So what?

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Symmetries - Comments

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Phase Space - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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Graduate Solving the Schrödinger equation for free electrons

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Graduate What are typical initial conditions for the Schrödinger eq?

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Undergrad What is the difference between cfd and realism?

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Undergrad Eigenvectors - eigenvalues mappings in QM

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Undergrad Measuring particles through experiments

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Undergrad What is the value of "delayed choice" experiments?

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High School Preserving local realism in the EPR experiment

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Graduate Why do space translations satisfy the Wigner's Theorem?

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Undergrad How elementary particles form matter

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Undergrad Why is a cavity radiator a perfect black body emitter?

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Undergrad Einstein's View of Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Does measurement destroy the interference pattern in the 2-slit experiment?

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Graduate Mathematical Quantum Field Theory - Gauge Fixing - Comments

  • Urs Schreiber
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Undergrad Superposition state and wavefunction collapse

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High School Is Quantum Interference Evidence of Multiple Universes?

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High School Deriving the Schrödinger equation from the Laplacian form

  • Joao
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Graduate QM: Probability of measuring momentum

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Undergrad Hilbert space and conjugate of a wave function

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Undergrad Solving Dirac Algebra Arithmetic

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Undergrad Why this system has a rotational symmetry in Dirac equation?

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High School Does Quantum Immortality really mean we are immortal?

  • TheQuestionGuy14
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Undergrad Momentum Entanglement: The Technicalities and Usage in Electron Experiments

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Undergrad Computing CHSH violation bound

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High School How and why do electron quantum numbers affect bonding?

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Undergrad Infinitely strong magnetic field

  • Hami Hashmi
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Graduate How high of atomic number to get g-block electrons?

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Undergrad Path bending in Feynman's QED reflection explanation

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Undergrad Quantum field theory and the hydrogen atom

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High School Two Confusing Entanglement Scenarios

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Undergrad Can individual photons be directly observed?

  • ftr
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Undergrad Are force-mediating particles real or just perturbative artifacts?

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Graduate Does a wavefunction in a cartesian system create a one-dimensional subspace?

  • SeM
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Undergrad Negative and Positive energy modes of KG equation

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High School Does gravity affect quantum transition amplitudes?

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Undergrad How Can Quantum Optics Model Gradually Varying Loss in Optical Media?

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Undergrad Heuristic for simple two-photon scattering problems

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Undergrad How does QFT handle particle creation and conversion?

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Undergrad How do you find the inverse of field transformations in Noether's theorem?

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High School Planck-Einstein relation and the Photoelectric Effect

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High School Does detecting which path a charged particle takes alter the field everywhere?

  • Vendicar Decarian
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Undergrad Why don't soft photons cause infrared divergences in total energy?

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Undergrad QM Assumptions Regarding Entanglement Properties

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Undergrad Partition functions for fermion gas in stat mechanics vs Dirac QFT

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Graduate Is Normalizing a 4x4 Matrix Possible Using Multiple Methods?

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Undergrad Does 'Phase Inversion' grow exponentially?

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Graduate Collision integral approximation in boltzmann equation

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Undergrad 2D LHO calculate ground state energy

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Undergrad Self education: how to proceed from QM to QFT?

  • MichPod
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Graduate Is there an alternative form of the zero point energy?

  • SeM
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High School Kim et al, 1999 experiment and causality

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Undergrad How energy of light is conserved when passing through medium

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Undergrad Why does the neutron lifetime seem surprisingly long?

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Graduate Schouten identity resembles Jacobi identity

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Could a bouncing particle theory explain quantum behavior?

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High School Correct English convention for |Psi|^2?

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Undergrad Can phase shifts δl be calculated in scattering theory?

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Undergrad Is Detailed Balance Satisfied in a Two-State System in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Derivation of the Casimir energy in flat space

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Graduate How spin projector got included in inverse of Matrix?

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Undergrad Angular momentum state of a system

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Undergrad Why is the potential derivation in Zee's QFT in a nutshell not true QFT?

  • ftr
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Insights The Vacuum Fluctuation Myth - Comments

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Undergrad How to factorize the hydrogen atom Hamiltonian?

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High School Does Human Observation Affect the Double Slit Experiment Results?

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Undergrad Commutator of p and x/r: Elegant Derivation in Position Basis

  • VKint
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High School Expanding space time and Virtual particles

  • Mcbleak
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Graduate Generalizing distinguishability of photons on HOM dip?

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High School Spontaneous increase in energy level

  • Getterdog
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Undergrad Meaning of Dirac Delta function in Quantum Mechanics

  • Ibraheem
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Undergrad Why doesn't measuring a photon's polarization violate the no-clone theorem?

  • fog37
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Graduate Fermi and Bose gas in statistical mechanics

  • Sang-Hyeon Han
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Graduate Is the Nexus Graviton a Thing?

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Undergrad Hidden dimensions and quadratic term of a free field

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Graduate Reasonable measurement of both coordinate and momentum?

  • MichPod
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Undergrad Energy of an electron with Schrodinger's equation

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Undergrad Operation on complex conjugate

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Graduate Osterwalder-Schrader theorem and non-relativistic QM

  • king vitamin
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Undergrad Concepts to understand Quantum Tunneling

  • SameerTahir
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Undergrad Wave Function Collapse: Quantifying Quickness

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High School Quantum Teleportation Question from a Curious 10 year old

  • Jacques Marrot
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High School Why doesn't this FTL communication scheme work?

  • Christofer Br
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Graduate Implications of violation of the Leggett–Garg inequality

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High School Quantum state of the Universe?

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Undergrad Squaring a Sum of Ket-Bra Operators

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Graduate Superluminal Signalling proposal in peer-reviewed journal

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High School Bose–Einstein condensate and Hadron Collider

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Undergrad Fermi gas at the absolute zero T

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Undergrad Concept underlying recent Serra-Lutz cold-to-hot experiment

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Undergrad Why does heat flow from cold to warm carbon and hydrogen in a correlated quantum system?

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