Quantum Physics Forum

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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?

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

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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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Undergrad Why is entanglement crucial for quantum computing?

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Undergrad Proof of some identities regarding spin angular momentum.

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High School Energy in microwave cavity quantized?

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Graduate On the equivalence of operator vs path integral in QFT

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High School Does the Compton effect only occur at a specific angle of incidence?

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Undergrad Wu Experiment and Parity Violation

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High School What is the shortest wavelength of all? >0 or h?

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Undergrad Proving that an operator squared equals its matrix squared

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High School Entangled particles and lorentz contraction?

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Graduate Why is deBroglie λ for electrons the same as λ for photons?

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Undergrad Quantum Tunneling: Can it Cause Stable Systems To Transition?

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Undergrad Are continous Spectra actually discrete?

  • Rohan Patil
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High School Understanding Forces and Fields in Classical and Quantum Interactions

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Graduate Symmetrisation of wave function for fermions

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Undergrad Larmor frequency units don't work out with eB/mc

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High School Is Classical EM Field the Same as Photon Wave Function?

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Graduate Non-locality and The First Law of Thermodynamics

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Undergrad Momentum and energy in QM and QFT

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High School Can all quantum fields be unified into one field?

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High School Non-Hermitian operator for superposition

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Undergrad Can an electron with defined momentum hit a specific point on a wall?

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High School Mistaking QM/Measurement problems....

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Undergrad Common interaction vacuum for QED + QCD?

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Graduate Can classical EM be derived from QFT?

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Undergrad How does phase symmetry in QM imply charge conservation?

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Undergrad Does completeness relation hold for normalized state vector sets?

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Undergrad What Is the Physics Behind Particle Traveling Over Voltage?

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High School Canonically conjugate quantities

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Undergrad Radiation passing through Planck-scale wormholes

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Graduate What Experimental Techniques Can Enhance Quantum State Preparation?

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Undergrad Deriving resolution of the identity without Dirac notation

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Graduate Dependence of entropy and temperature on Planck's constant

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Undergrad Quirk: quantum circuit simulator with drag-and-drop

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High School Is Quantum Mechanics Necessary for Understanding Water's Properties?

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Undergrad Do atomic orbitals shift when an electron is excited?

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Undergrad Phase of |0> when it appears in a product

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High School Is There a Quantum Lift Analogous to Aerodynamic Lift?

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Undergrad Would we observe a changing Planck's constant?

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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser - partial information retrieval

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High School Is QE knowing how to correlate particles' measurements?

  • Chris Miller
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Undergrad Introducing QM via commutators

  • MichPod
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Undergrad What are the probabilities for different outcomes with Bose-Einstein statistics?

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Data from a delayed choice quantum eraser experiment

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Graduate Resources for GRW, CSL collapse models

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Undergrad Why is momentum the Fourier transform of position?

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High School Some website about new Bohr model

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Undergrad Distinguishable Terms in a State

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Graduate Can qubits store more than two quantum states?

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High School Double slit experiment - doesn't measurement affect photons?

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Graduate Gauge-invariant operators in correlation functions

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Undergrad They physics of phase inversion in Grover's algorithm

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Undergrad Can the energy of a particle ensemble in QFT be bounded over time?

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Undergrad How to Shut Up and Calculate a Delayed Choice Outcome

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Graduate Gauge transformations at infinity

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Undergrad What's wrong with Quantum Mechanics and its teaching?

  • MichPod
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Undergrad Scattering, 4 point correlator, number of distinct Feynman diagrams

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High School Photons -- do you know what they are?

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High School Quantum entanglement and relativistic simultaneity

  • Chris Miller
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Undergrad Trying to model wave function collapse

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Graduate What’s the physical nature of the pilot wave?

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Graduate Quantized Dirac field calculations

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Undergrad Some said 1000's of experiments support superposition but

  • mike1000
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Undergrad Do slits absorb photons at the edges?

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Where Can I Find Loudon's Paper on Two-Particle Interference Online?

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Graduate Total derivative of momentum in quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Why no interference in modified delayed choice quantum eraser without which-way info

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High School Time dilation and quantum entanglement.

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High School Is this a good understanding of superposition?

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Undergrad Modeling EPR - Local or Non-Local

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High School Why did Max Planck quantize light?

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Undergrad What inspired Dirac's formulation of quantum theory?

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Undergrad Virial theorem as applied to hydrogen atom

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Undergrad Derivative = 0 is always minima? (Linear variational method)

  • HAYAO
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High School Electrons interfere with eachother?

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Undergrad The problem with measuring short distances

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Graduate What happens mathematically when a wave function collapses

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Undergrad Still unclear on superposition

  • mike1000
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Undergrad Why can't all bits of an entanglement be read at once?

  • Kenneth Adam Miller
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High School Probability distribution of eigenvalues on a 120-sided die

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Graduate Normalizable States in QM: Bound vs. Scattering

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Undergrad Constraints on potential for normalizable wavefunction

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Undergrad How do we measure the EM field that a particle produces?

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Undergrad Could Hidden Variables Explain Quantum Mechanics without Locality?

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Undergrad Trying to understand the interference limits of matter-wave

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Undergrad Bell test where observers never were in a common light cone

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Undergrad Can Quantum Fields be derived from Particles?

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