Quantum Physics Forum

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Undergrad "Observer Effect" referring to two different things?

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Graduate Can entanglement swapping determine the absolute velocity of an object?

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High School Collision of photon and proton

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Undergrad Double slits seen from the plane

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High School So Quantum Fluctuations don't exist?

  • Tio Barnabe
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High School Is the Momentum Explanation in Marcella's Paper Consensus Among Physicists?

  • fanieh
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Undergrad Why expectation values show N±√N fluctuations

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Graduate Interference in electron conductance through e.g. molecule?

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Undergrad Why doesn't a measurement collapse act like a preparation?

  • john t
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High School Energy absorbed by an electron

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Undergrad Is there a simplified spin-orbit coupling equation?

  • HAYAO
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Undergrad Is the Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism a Classical Analogue to Quantum Wave Functions?

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Undergrad How does total internal reflection occur in quantum mechanics?

  • Pritamstar
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High School Particle pair creation probability

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Undergrad Why the velocity operator commutes with position (Dirac equation)

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High School Avoiding unexpected observations

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Undergrad Find a calculation of Schrödinger's cat experiment?

  • Joe Cool
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Undergrad Can the PBR Theorem Prove the Reality of Quantum States?

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Undergrad How does quantum entanglement communication work?

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Undergrad What's the physics description of "existence" ?

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High School Does Heisenberg's uncertainty principle imply no free will?

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Undergrad Three-particle entanglement states and measurement outcomes

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Is momentum variance quantized in a finite universe?

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Undergrad Why do waves need to match object size for interaction?

  • Mr rabbit
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High School Gravitational radiation on transition?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Principle of superposition of states

  • Alex Cros
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Undergrad Applying the Principle of Relativity to Quantum Mechanics

  • S Steinhauer
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Undergrad Is all correlation related to quantum entanglement?

  • friend
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Undergrad QM Incompleteness: Can We Predict Uncertainty?

  • Johan0001
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High School Does QM state that Space is made of nothing?

  • mpolo
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High School Question regarding Light by Light Scattering

  • Curious13
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Undergrad Understanding Quantum Cascade Lasers

  • Karl330
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High School Does QM implicitly define an aether?

  • Nocturnals
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Graduate Charge conjugation in Peskin and Schroeder

  • diegzumillo
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Undergrad Zero-point energy vs measured zero momentum in ground state

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Energy operator and the Hamiltonian operator: Are they same?

  • arpon
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Undergrad QFT in Euclidean or Minkowski Spacetime

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Experiment: Spin Rotation Operator

  • arpon
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High School What are the potential uses of time crystals?

  • CuriousMark
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Undergrad Math of Spreading Wavefunction

  • bluecap
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High School Photon detection in the EPR experiment

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High School Is a pure state a kind of mixed states?

  • sweet springs
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High School Quantum communication satellite

  • pranj5
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High School Does electron motion blur explain why it appears smeared out?

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Undergrad Compatibility of Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity

  • Mal Cevalo
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Undergrad Quantum communication question

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High School What does a superposition of eigenstates represent physically?

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High School Matter/antimatter entanglement

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Undergrad Povm's and Von Neumann Meaurements

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Undergrad Klein-Gordon propagator derivation

  • chingel
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Undergrad What if the Hamiltonian in Dirac's equation weren't linear in momentum?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Graduate Can the wave function show turbulence?

  • sgphysics
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Graduate Several ground state calculations at once

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Undergrad Pauli Spin Operator Eigenvalues For Two Electron System

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Undergrad Mixed states vs pure states - physical POV

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Graduate What is the LSZ reduction formula and how does it relate to propagators?

  • bengeof
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Graduate Why do fermionic fields use Grassmann numbers?

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Graduate Correlation properties of quasi-thermal light

  • kvantarina
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Undergrad Understanding Hilbert Subspace for Two-Particle Entangled Systems

  • bluecap
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High School Information transfer using entanglement?

  • entropy1
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High School Why is quantum entanglement surprising if it conserves spin?

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Conservation laws during particle decay?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Why is "consciousness causes collapse" unprovable or unfalsiable?

  • Trollfaz
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Graduate Hubbard model diagonalization in 1D K-space for spinless Fermions

  • Luqman Saleem
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Undergrad Von Neumann measurement scheme

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Particles of matter as Bosons?

  • bbbl67
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High School What is the physical interpretation of n-particle correlation function in QFT?

  • bengeof
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Undergrad Relativistic Quantum Mechanics vs Quantum Field Theory

  • Tio Barnabe
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Undergrad Why the Quantum Theories are flawed

  • Mac01
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Graduate Enhancing Spontaneous emission in a vacuum standing wave

  • SchroedingersLion
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Graduate Analytical evaluation of r^l integral

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Graduate Quantum Optics - transition from pure to mixed state

  • SchroedingersLion
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Undergrad The box notation and Lagrangians in field theory

  • aqualone
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High School Why don't electrons align the same way in a magnetic field?

  • calinvass
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High School Is the electron a particle or field?

  • Pedraam
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Undergrad Atom as a harmonic oscillator of radition

  • PainterGuy
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High School Does this theorem “theoretically” falsify macrorealism?

  • Daria K
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Undergrad Quantum entanglement information

  • calinvass
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High School Physicists measure complementary properties using quantum cloning

  • .Scott
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Undergrad What is the behavior of real magnets when passed through Stern-Gerlach gates?

  • calinvass
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Undergrad Can quantum superpositions be observed

  • Trollfaz
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High School Uncertainty of a Gaussian wavepacket

  • Isaac0427
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High School Why does a the Wave Function collapse?

  • mpolo
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Undergrad Derivation of the radial equation

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High School How did Caltech's photon teleportation work?

  • satyesu
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High School What are quantum states and quantum information?

  • satyesu
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Undergrad Complex scalar field commutation relations

  • TeethWhitener
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High School "probability of finding the electron" (teaching QM)

  • Borek
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High School Is energy really probabilistic in quantum mechanics?

  • cube137
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Undergrad Wave function of electrons and the double slit experiment

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High School Does an electron orbit in a plane from its own reference frame?

  • Doomsday92
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Undergrad Schrodinger equation and Heisenberg equation of motion

  • Josh1079
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Undergrad The nature of quantum interference

  • Mentz114
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Undergrad Proposal for a peculiar double-slit experiment

  • Pelion
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Undergrad The propagator and the Lagrangian

  • redtree
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High School Can retrocausality explain the wave properties in the double slit experiment?

  • Realgent
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Graduate Anomalous field dimension in the on-shell scheme

  • aqualone
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Graduate Majorana Lagrangian and Majorana/Dirac matrices

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High School What Happens to High-Energy Particles in Cosmic Rain?

  • Suppaman
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High School "travel time" of appearing and disappearing?

  • Suppaman
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