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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High School How does string theory fit with QFT?

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Undergrad Why not describing the radiatation of atom spectrum by TDSE

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Graduate Key problems in classical and quantum measurement

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Graduate A question about linear response and conductivity

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Undergrad Could Wormholes and Entanglement Be Connected?

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Graduate Classical intr. ang mom and quantum intr ang mom relation

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Graduate Challenges to QED from hyperfine measurements

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Undergrad Partially entangled(W), Maximally and disentangled states

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Undergrad Effect of Homog./Non-Homog. Magnetic Field in Heisenberg Spin System

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Undergrad Bose-Einstein condensates coherence

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Undergrad What Mathematical Theories Are Essential for Understanding Quantum Physics?

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High School How decoherence destroys superpositions

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Undergrad Does quantum mechanics refute materialism?

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Undergrad Do Bell experiments disprove local realism?

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Undergrad Transition state of electrons in molecules

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Undergrad Factorising expectation values

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Undergrad Smallest possible orbit and velocity of a particle?

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Undergrad Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment?

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Undergrad Why probability current = 0 at infinity? Why must wavefunction be continuous?

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Undergrad What's the significance of the phase in a coherent state?

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Undergrad Differences in photons from protons vs photons from e-?

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Undergrad Is the Phase Velocity of a Massive Particle Representing Anything Physical?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Is Bell's Theorem Valid Despite Fundamental Theoretical Loopholes?

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Undergrad Is the Fermion number operator squared equal to itself?

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Graduate Haag's Theorem & Wightman Axioms: Solving Problems in QFT?

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High School Quantum tunneling - Questions about some pop-science claims

  • Jeronimus
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High School When do we know where an object is

  • Daniel Huren
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High School Bell Non Locality, Quantum Non Locality, Weak Locality, CDP

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High School Question about a beam of light

  • Mosio
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High School How can something be "Zero Dimensional?"

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Undergrad Inequality for the time evolution of an overlap

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Undergrad Neutron Stars: Flipping Up Quarks to Down Quarks

  • WildBill
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Undergrad Particle antiparticle creation

  • Michel Raskin
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Undergrad A particle measured in a too high potential

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Undergrad Quantum "tunneling" of sorts and QFT....

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High School Double Slit Experiment: Detection around slit?

  • Andy_K
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Undergrad How to compute second-order variation of an action?

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad Electron jelly model and Hydrogen Atom

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Undergrad The Fundamental Nature of Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics

  • Jezza
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High School Electron Color & Wavelengths: Why Dependency?

  • GAURAV DADWAL
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Graduate Wigner-Eckart theorem and reduced matrix element

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Undergrad Identical Particle States in a Unidimensional Box

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Undergrad Heat energy: statistical mechanics vs atomic orbitals

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Graduate Help with proof of eq. 2.64 of Intro. to Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Can Zeta ζ(½+it) be interpreted as a Wave function?

  • Jason C
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Graduate Operators in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Life on the Edge: is it still alive?

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Undergrad Electron capture and electron transitions.

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Undergrad Arithmetic Block in Shor Algorithm

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Graduate Operation of Hamiltonian roots on wave functions

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Undergrad Adding types of angular momenta

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Undergrad Compton effect: how can it take place?

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Undergrad Laser vs photodiodes and spectra

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High School Why does waveform exp[iwt] have negative kinetic energy?

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Undergrad Change in electron energy level and photon emission....

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Undergrad Pauli spin matrices and Eigen spinors

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Undergrad Bell's theorem and Superdeterminism

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Undergrad General Questions Related to Quantum Measurement

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Undergrad What Came First the Magnet or the Field?

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Undergrad Angular momentum operator commutation relation

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High School Is Inversion Symmetry Found in Nature or Technology?

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Undergrad Orbital angular momentum of light

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Undergrad Time independent Schrodinger equation results (1D)

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Undergrad Renormalisation and the Landau pole

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Undergrad Why does SU(2) have 3 parameters/generators like the SO(3)?

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Undergrad Do the vacuum states created by soft photons have vacuum flu

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Undergrad Wave-particle duality general question

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Undergrad Time Reversal Operator: Physics Explained

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Undergrad What is the connection between classical uncertainty and quantum mechanics?

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Graduate Vacuum polarization at intermediate distances

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Undergrad Single-mode field quantization Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Maximally entangled state expression and generalization

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Undergrad Why do I get to a contradiction?

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High School How to change electron and proton charge

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Undergrad Conceptual question about spin state rotations

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Graduate Can a Point-Like Particle Defy the Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Physics Challenge by QuantumQuest #1

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Information Theory and Entropy

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Graduate Peskin/Schroeder 4.77 page (about cross-sections)

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Graduate Non-Heisenberg Uncertainty Relations

  • Larry
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Graduate Double slit experiment wave interference?

  • Mario Rossi
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High School Double slit and randomly functioning measuring devices

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High School Energy of Gamma Ray Photon with Wavelength h

  • Daniel Petka
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Undergrad Klein-Gordon Operator: Creating Particles at Position x

  • Silviu
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High School Trying to understand the double-slit experiment

  • Bruce Barron
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High School Probability Amplitude: Understanding Photons

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Undergrad How does observation affect reality

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High School What is Decoherence and How Did Bohr and Einstein Debate Its Implications?

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High School Wave Function Collapsing Function

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High School Do wave packets really represent a free particle?

  • LarryS
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High School Is 'Synchronized' a Misleading Term for Entangled Atoms?

  • Chris Miller
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Undergrad Quantum Entanglement on the Moon

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Undergrad Propagator operator in Heinsenberg picture

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Graduate TQFT From Purely Mathematical Considerations

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High School Are vertical lines from squinting a Quantum phenomenon?

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High School Brownian motion from virtual photons?

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High School Do particles "care" about consciousness or simply the data

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Undergrad How to understand the derivation for this process in QFT?

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Undergrad What is Cn in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Causality preserved in Klein-Gordon equation

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