Quantum Physics Forum

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Undergrad Born rule for macroscopic objects

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Undergrad Quantum Physicists Examine Orch Theory and Consciousness

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Undergrad On uniqueness of density matrix description as mixed state

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Undergrad Underlying reality re deBroglie equation

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High School Matrix exponential and applying it a random state

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Graduate Does increasing photon flux density increase attenuation?

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Graduate Change of coordinates in quantum phase space

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Undergrad Explanation of the EPR paradox

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High School Does the Higgs field gravitate?

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Undergrad Psi-epistemic arguments against reality of quantum states

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

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High School QM: Quantization Dependent on Spatial Confinement?

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Undergrad Solving Schrodinger's equation

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High School Guessing trial wave function with variational method

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Undergrad Srednicki KG equation: why exclude negative energy solutions with step function

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Undergrad What can this observable represent?

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Undergrad How Can Two Simultaneous Measurements Be Compared in Single Photon Entanglement?

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Undergrad Why can't atoms accept energy from static electric fields?

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Graduate Problem with Bose-Einstein Condensation

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Undergrad Trying to understand how spontaneous emission works

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High School Why are there only two colorful metals?

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High School Trajectory of photon or electron in double slit

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High School Can the electron g-factor be calculated from the golden ratio?

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Undergrad Is it possible to send information with entanglement?

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High School When was the first double slit experiment done using a detector?

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High School Does "wave–particle duality" exist in low frequency waves?

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Graduate Is There a Possibility of Quantum Events Creating Cats?

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Undergrad Do these relations have any physical significance

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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser with actual 'choice'?

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High School Does mass increase with velocity in different reference frames?

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Undergrad Electron Degeneracy Pressure not Fundamental?

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High School Did Einstein and Bohr disagree on whether reality requires observation?

  • ChrisisC
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High School How much could quantum computers improve on conventional computers?

  • ChrisisC
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High School Maths used in Quantum physics, specifically particle physics

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Undergrad Boltzmann brains and other low probability events

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High School Double slit experiment for layman

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Undergrad Ratio between spontaneous/stimulated emission

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Graduate Large scale Quantum computing developments

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Graduate A need for an exactly solvable model

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Undergrad Mandel quantum eraser: No signal/idler-correlations needed?

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High School Why do Dirac equation solutions have spin even at zero momentum?

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High School How does beta disintegration work?

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Undergrad Why does the Coulomb potential give discrete energy eigenvalues in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Is there any way to get a geometrical description of QM

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Undergrad Why don't vacuum fluctuations cause Anderson-like localization?

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Undergrad Why do quarks prefer to live on top of fluctuating gluon fields?

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High School Is Energy Truly Quantized in De Broglie's Equation?

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Undergrad How important is light in the Observer Effect?

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Graduate Quantum states and representation freedom

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Undergrad If an object is not quantized does it have a wave function?

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Undergrad How Does Shankar's PQM Derive Schrödinger's Equation?

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Graduate How does the magnetic field B appear when rewriting the Dirac equation?

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Undergrad The nature of wavefunctions collapse

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Undergrad Can individual observables become entangled while others remain separate?

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Graduate How do you visualize quantum spin?

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Graduate Variation in Schwinger's quantum action principle

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Undergrad The Arrow of Time and the Reversibility of Decay Processes in Physics

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High School Is the wave function collapse asymmetrical in time?

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High School Boundary between Quantum and Relativity

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Undergrad Criss-cross multiple double slit experiment paths?

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Graduate Ground state wave function from Euclidean path integral

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Undergrad Why Use Different Components for E>0 and E<0 in Dirac Equation?

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High School Understanding Fourier Transform for Wavefunction Representation in K Space

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Undergrad State Representation in QM and Vector Spaces

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Undergrad Lorentz invariance of quantum theory

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High School SMBC comic about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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High School What is the UV catastrophe and how does it challenge classical physics?

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Undergrad I can determine the photon path in delayed erasure

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Undergrad Information isolation limits many-worlds branching in quantum systems

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High School Measuring entangled electrons on different spin axes

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Undergrad Why does inserting a complete set give an extra delta function term?

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High School Double slit and DCQE with future prediction

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High School What are some easy ways to show quantum mechanics

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High School The Chinese have proposed teleportation of a bacteria

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High School Why is Quantum Physics so Strange?

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Undergrad Why doesn't macroscopic superposition occur like quantum superposition?

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Undergrad Energy associated with entangled particles

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Undergrad Is Energy Entanglement Possible?

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Undergrad Most Ridiculous Papers You've Ever Read

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High School Why is P²/2m the kinetic energy operator in the Hamiltonian?

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Undergrad Finding electron spin probabilities in a two-electron system

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Undergrad Why is the Pauli Exclusion Principle not a force?

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High School Bose Condensate: The Repulsive Nature and Inability to Penetrate Ceramic

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Undergrad One Way vs. Entangled Cryptography

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Undergrad Commutator Properties: [A,B]C+B[A,C]=[A,B](C+B)?

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Undergrad Peres-Horodecki criterion for a 3-qubit system

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Undergrad Proving The Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle

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High School Build a "full" wave function without data in simple problems

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Insights Interview with physicist David J. Griffiths

  • Greg Bernhardt
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High School Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Equivalent to One Bit of Information?

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Undergrad Does the electron field carry information about its charge

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Undergrad Physical significance of nodes?

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Undergrad Will the kinetic energy operator change with a variable shift?

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Graduate How to calculate the Wigner function for an entangled state

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Undergrad How are quantum bits implememted?

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Undergrad Why do we need perturbation theory

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Undergrad Qubits: Can We Store Information Again After Read?

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Undergrad Double slit experiment with electrons

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