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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Undergrad Questions regarding Hawking radiation

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Undergrad What 'Collapses' the Wavefunction of the Universe?

  • Ghost117
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Undergrad Calculating Subsystem B Probability in a Two-System Setup

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Undergrad Examples where mixed states are eigenstates

  • oquen
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Undergrad How Do Symmetry Properties Affect Boltzmann Distributions for Bosonic Particles?

  • jostpuur
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Undergrad The Wavefunction and eigenstates

  • Higgsono
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Undergrad Why isn't tunnelling considered proof of hidden variables?

  • scifimath
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High School Possible Recoherence After Wave Function Collapse?

  • oquen
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Undergrad GRE related question in Quantum

  • Silviu
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High School Has anyone tested a polarization filter sending through photon by photon?

  • calinvass
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Undergrad Equations of motion from Born-Infeld Lagrangian

  • OhNoYaDidn't
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High School Subsystem has no wave function

  • mieral
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Undergrad Electroweak Bosons: Examining W1, W2, W3

  • Lucifuge Rofocale
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High School Marble Ball as a Subsystem in Quantum Decoherence

  • oquen
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Graduate Photon number needless conservation, consolidation possible?

  • kiwaho
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Undergrad Superfluidic Quantum Computer?

  • cuallito
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Undergrad Spectrum energy of a particle moving on a circumference

  • Lola1
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High School How to make the wave collapse in double-slit experiment

  • Tareq Naushad
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Undergrad Is Observable A Invariant Under Symmetry Generators G_i?

  • Kara386
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Undergrad Stern-Gerlach experiment questions

  • Pet Scan
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Undergrad What is the physical interpretation of eigenstates in quantum mechanics?

  • Gianmarco
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Undergrad Difference between Scattering and Emission of Photons

  • JohnnyGui
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High School Entanglement Distance: Explained for Beginners

  • megacal
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Undergrad Quantum tunneling in symmetry breaking

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Is entanglement severed by wave function collapse?

  • FreeThinking
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Undergrad Can Photons Be Accelerated by Altering Their Path?

  • Mridul Tripathi
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High School Untangled Photon - Commonplace or Fictional?

  • ObjectivelyRational
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Undergrad Entanglement spin swaps are instantaneous?

  • scifimath
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Undergrad Lagrangian for electromagnetic field derivation

  • TimeRip496
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Undergrad Double slit experiment questions

  • yadda
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Undergrad Vacuum energy cutoff and Lorentz invariance....

  • asimov42
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High School Is the Double Slit Experiment Essential for Understanding Quantum Mechanics?

  • mieral
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Undergrad Applying Euler-Lagrange to (real) Klein-Gordon Lagrangian

  • joebentley10
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Undergrad Maximum practical size of a BEC

  • Davephaelon
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Undergrad On Wave Function Collapse and Accuracy of Energy Measurment

  • Electric to be
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Undergrad Early Quantum Entanglement Experiments basic question?

  • Sid2100
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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between Virtual and Ordinary Statistical Ensembles?

  • A. Neumaier
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Graduate Vacuum birefringence QFT treatment

  • Mordred
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Graduate Squeezed Light & NonLinear Optics

  • sanman
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Undergrad A contradiction in quantum mechanics

  • Killtech
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Undergrad Path integral implies superluminal motion?

  • substitute materials
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Undergrad Photon-Photon Coupling (Gamma-Gamma)

  • sanman
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High School Weak nuclear force - circumstances in which it is manifested

  • arlesterc
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Undergrad Are Eigenstates of operators always stationary states?

  • fog37
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Undergrad Distinguishing classical physics vs. quantum physics

  • Zafa Pi
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Undergrad Symmetric, self-adjoint operators and the spectral theorem

  • Neutrinos02
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Undergrad How Can Multi-Particle Interference Help Clarify Quantum Mechanics?

  • Killtech
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High School Any good lay explanation of the Schrödinger cat duality?

  • Nick Levinson
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Undergrad Does the electron have charge?

  • ftr
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Undergrad Two quantum states and qubits....

  • fog37
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High School Distinguish Contextual ,Non Local,Non Realistic (Non CFD)

  • Point Conception
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Undergrad Problem with CHSH's version of Bell's inequalities

  • facenian
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Undergrad Classicality in Bell's original reasoning

  • A. Neumaier
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Undergrad NMR: RF-pulse response away from equilibrium

  • Nogniks
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High School Physicists study the quantum vacuum

  • wolram
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Graduate Bell's theorem+Holographic entanglement entropy

  • itoero
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Undergrad Is a Qubit in a Quantum Superposition or a Mixed State?

  • Trixie Mattel
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Undergrad Difference between Quantum Superposition and Mixed States

  • Trixie Mattel
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High School Understanding Light as a Wave: Clarifying Misunderstandings in Modern Physics

  • _PJ_
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Undergrad Short Distance Quantum Physics

  • clarkvangilder
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Undergrad Does observed light travel faster or slower than unobserved?

  • scifimath
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High School Does Cutting an Object Affect Its Hilbert Space or Quantum State?

  • oquen
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Undergrad Quantum Superposition, Linear Combinations and Basis

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Graduate Quantum Field theory profound insight antiparticles

  • binbagsss
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Graduate Expanding CCRs, and their underlying meaning

  • golanor
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High School Can Anti-Atoms Produce an Optical Spectrum? New Study Shows Promising Results

  • houlahound
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Undergrad Jaynes on probability in quantum theory

  • A. Neumaier
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High School How Does the Quantum Vacuum Influence Matter and Fundamental Interactions?

  • oquen
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Undergrad Open or closed Casimir system?

  • gildomar
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Undergrad Calculating Modes in a Cavity: Why Use a Spherical Volume?

  • Conservation
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Undergrad Use of polarization to experimentally check photon mass?

  • Bolhuso
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Undergrad Ben Schumacher - Q. Mech. lectures from 2008. Outdated?

  • QuantumMechanics
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Undergrad Lorentz violation and the physical vacuum....

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Intrinsic or non-intrinsic properties

  • friend
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Undergrad Quantum wavepackets expanding in free space

  • fog37
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High School Particle Entanglement Explained: Can 2+ Be Entangled?

  • rpthomps
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Undergrad Total angular momentum for antiparallel electrons

  • goodphy
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Undergrad Studying Sturm-Liouville Form: Finding Resources & Problem Sets

  • Mordred
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Undergrad Understanding Quantum Corral images

  • fog37
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Undergrad Quantum mechanics shows how the poverty of energy imposes structure....?

  • jamie.j1989
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High School Does information travel faster than light

  • wolram
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Undergrad Rotation operators on a sphere, around x and y axis

  • Emily111
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High School Single-source and multi-source interference

  • stevendaryl
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Undergrad Common eigenfuctions for degeneracy

  • goodphy
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Undergrad Reflection of a massive particle

  • Pet Scan
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High School Exploring Double Slit Experiment in Space

  • Gmoneylucky
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Undergrad Born rule for macroscopic objects

  • durant35
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Undergrad Quantum Physicists Examine Orch Theory and Consciousness

  • Pyrus
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Undergrad On uniqueness of density matrix description as mixed state

  • stevendaryl
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Undergrad Underlying reality re deBroglie equation

  • Cobalt101
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High School Matrix exponential and applying it a random state

  • td21
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Graduate Does increasing photon flux density increase attenuation?

  • texasnano
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Graduate Change of coordinates in quantum phase space

  • dft5
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Undergrad Explanation of the EPR paradox

  • arupel
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High School Does the Higgs field gravitate?

  • newjerseyrunner
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Undergrad Psi-epistemic arguments against reality of quantum states

  • msumm21
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Graduate What are L+ and L- matrices for l=3 ?

  • niloun
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High School QM: Quantization Dependent on Spatial Confinement?

  • fog37
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Undergrad Solving Schrodinger's equation

  • LSMOG
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High School Guessing trial wave function with variational method

  • physicist 12345
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