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 What does it mean -- polarization of a single photon?

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High School What is the Mass of Photons According to QFT?

  • FallenApple
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High School So Schrodinger's cat is a gambler

  • farolero
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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking - potential minima

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Undergrad Obtaining Spherical Harmonics to Normalized Angular Wave Functions

  • TimeRip496
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Undergrad Do photons of all energies exist?

  • Vibin Narayanan
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory - Why quantise fields?

  • "Don't panic!"
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High School Gauge Boson Exchange: Do Particles Influence Each Other?

  • Vibin Narayanan
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Undergrad Determining Electron Dipole: Experiments & Results

  • LitleBang
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Undergrad Molecular Hamiltonian - Ammonia

  • Konte
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics is not a description of reality?

  • Clever Penguin
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Undergrad What destroys interference: Possibility or actual measurment?

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Undergrad What is the mechanism behind Hawking radiation?

  • Grinkle
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Graduate What is the true definition of the covariant gamma matrix ##\gamma_{5}##?

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Laser Beam through Calcite crystal = Photon Entanglement?

  • fizixfan
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Graduate Identification of particle and antiparticle in lagrangian

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Value of Mexican hat potential

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Why Can We Drop Constant Terms in Quantum Field Theory Lagrangians?

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Understanding Spin Basis & Representation in Modern Physics | Explained

  • yeezyseason3
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Undergrad Unruh effect, temperature and particle density....

  • asimov42
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Graduate What are the failed experiments to determine electron's position?

  • Shailesh Pincha
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Undergrad Can Bell's theorem contradict PBR ?

  • jk22
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High School Why is the uncertainty in position equal to the wavelength?

  • HermitOfThebes
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Undergrad Difference between measurement and passing through a gate

  • nashed
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Undergrad Classical vs. Quantum Defintion of Energy in Field Theory

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Question about the deBroglie hypothesis

  • Haizreff
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High School Local teleportation using classical entanglement

  • Nicky665
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High School A non-physicist's question on the double-slit experiment

  • Quotidian
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Graduate Quantum obstacle course changes material from superconductor to insulator

  • Electron Spin
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Undergrad Harmonic oscillator ladder operators

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Why is measure not an accurate term for determining the location of a particle?

  • FallenApple
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High School Teleportation of large objects?

  • Emilie0tec
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Undergrad Higgs Boson, Electrons and Spin

  • kent davidge
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Graduate QFT as pilot-wave theory - one more time....

  • asimov42
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Undergrad What Events Create Spooky Electrons in Quantum Mechanics?

  • Passionate Eng
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Insights Interview with a Physicist: David Hestenes - Comments

  • micromass
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Graduate What is the purpose of applying a Dirichlet boundary condition?

  • bluejay27
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High School What happens if the observer dies?

  • Nektar
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Undergrad How many orbits are in the hydrogen atom?

  • LSMOG
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Undergrad The Berry Connection and Gauge Invariance in Quantum Systems

  • spaghetti3451
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High School Can you change a quantum particle's spin?

  • cj20x2
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High School Possible for a particle to diffract around a barrier

  • rictor
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Undergrad Is the Concept of a Continuous Real Line Contradicted by Quantum Physics?

  • FallenApple
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Undergrad Commutator of Parity operator and angular momentum

  • dyn
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High School Is the Universe grainy below the Planck Scale?

  • CrackerMcGinger
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Undergrad Integrating imaginary units and operators

  • Dean Navels
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Undergrad SQM vs Pilot Waves - Potential issue with Pilot Waves?

  • tomdodd4598
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Undergrad Why does the existence of the Higgs Field require a Higgs Particle?

  • imsmooth
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Undergrad QFT Feynman Propagator Algebra

  • binbagsss
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Undergrad Exchange of photons inside atoms

  • CassiopeiaA
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Graduate Determining molecular resonance frequencies

  • Cloud Wolf
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Undergrad Virtual Particles and Charge Screening

  • David Neves
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High School Does an electron turn into a positron when hit by a photon?

  • Jovian_Dsouza
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High School Meter Defined by Speed of Light: Uncertainty of Measurement

  • RaduAndrei
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Undergrad Is quantum weirdness really weird?

  • Dadface
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Undergrad Determining if an operator is degenerate

  • Physgeek64
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High School De Broglie Wavelength & Classical EM Wavelength Comparison

  • rictor
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Graduate Are All Electrons Created Equal? The Implications of Quantum Field Theory

  • catamongpigeon
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Undergrad Meaning of "c number equations"?

  • TheCanadian
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High School Doubt regarding Rutherford's Alpha Scattering Experiment and Impact Parameter

  • Bloopy
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Undergrad Murray Gell-Mann on Entanglement

  • Thecla
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Undergrad Is the QFT field real or just a mathematical tool?

  • ftr
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High School Why does this term always approach 4?

  • houlahound
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Undergrad Eigenstate of two observable operators

  • Kavorka
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Undergrad Berry phase without a magnetic field

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Cosmic Bell Test: 600 yr Old "Freedom of Choice" Loophole

  • DrChinese
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High School Einstein's Photoelectric Equation and its graph

  • Bloopy
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High School Double Slit detectors question

  • jacobassett
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Undergrad Can the expectation of an operator be imaginary?

  • Tspirit
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Undergrad SO(3) rotation of eigenvectors

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Feynman diagrams for ##e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow \mu^{+}\mu^{-}##

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Study for Feynman Diagrams: Beyond Shankar, etc?

  • kent davidge
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Undergrad Unraveling the Quantum Eraser Mystery

  • Tonyant
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Undergrad Entanglement in QM - Understanding Instant Correlation & Randomness

  • GiuseppeP
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Graduate Spinor Lorentz Transform via Vectors - Cross Product Issue

  • bolbteppa
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Graduate Why General Relativity is non-renormalizable quantum theory?

  • tatanacevedo
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High School Operators 'act on' the wavefunction

  • says
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High School What Is Surprising About Wave Function Collapse?

  • abrogard
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High School Photon-Wave Duality: Why can't they be separated?

  • MittyWalter
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Undergrad Confused about emission/absorbtion of photons

  • tadasbar
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Graduate NASA confirms(?) EmDrive - can pilot wave carry momentum?

  • jarekduda
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Undergrad Measuring Spin in the Stern Gerlach Experiment

  • klen
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Undergrad Hermitian Operators in QM

  • john t
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Graduate Why can the ##1##-point correlation function be made to vanish?

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Correlation functions and correlation length

  • Frank Castle
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High School How does Partcle Symmetry affect the way a Particle Behaves?

  • ChrisisC
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Graduate Hermitian properties of the gamma matrices

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate EPFL's claim about wave particle duality

  • Ranvir
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Undergrad Explanation for the Quantum Measurement Problem?

  • pittsburghjoe
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High School Re-Preparing vs Perturbing Quantum States: Understanding the Difference

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Can particles exist without duality?

  • pittsburghjoe
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High School Double slit question, rotating polarizers...

  • mister mishka
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Undergrad Why Is the Probability of Finding a Particle in a Position Eigenstate Zero?

  • bluecap
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Graduate Does an infinitesimal generator of acceleration exist?

  • quickAndLucky
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Graduate What is the Lorentz Transformation for Spinor Indices of the Weyl Operator?

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Lorentz transformation of field with components

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate What is faster, Gravity or "Spooky Action" at a distance?

  • fieldofforce
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Undergrad Gauge invariance of momentum of charged particle

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Adiabatic process - quantum mechanics and thermodynamics

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Phase factors of eigenstates in time-dependent Hamiltonians

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