Quantum Physics Forum

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Graduate EPFL's claim about wave particle duality

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Undergrad Explanation for the Quantum Measurement Problem?

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High School What is the difference between re-preparing and perturbing a quantum state?

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Can particles exist without duality?

  • pittsburghjoe
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High School Do interference fringes reappear when rotating polarizers from perpendicular to parallel?

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

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Graduate Does an infinitesimal generator of acceleration exist?

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

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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?

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Undergrad Gauge invariance of momentum of charged particle

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Graduate Adiabatic process - quantum mechanics and thermodynamics

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Undergrad Phase factors of eigenstates in time-dependent Hamiltonians

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Undergrad How are Hofstadter's butterfly and Landau levels in 2D related?

  • VishalSharma
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High School Can a point-like particle really exist in a 0-dimensional universe?

  • ChrisisC
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Undergrad Question for large quantum system

  • JasonWuzHear
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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser with no detectors on idler path

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Undergrad Time dependent perturbation(determination of order)

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High School About creating a product state

  • KFC
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High School Can Everett Branches Break Quantum Laws?

  • bluecap
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High School Spectroscopy before tunable lasers?

  • houlahound
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Undergrad Why windows show reflections and transparency differently at day and night

  • rxrus
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High School Is the Speed of Light 1 Planck Length per 1 Planck Time in Vacuum?

  • danihel
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High School Uncertainty Principle and a photon

  • backward
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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser without idler detectors

  • evkph
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Undergrad Hermitian Operators in Dirac Equation

  • Higgsono
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Graduate What is De Broglie's Fictitious Wave?

  • avarmaavarma
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Undergrad What is the reason behind fermions being unable to share the same quantum state?

  • Higgsono
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High School Why Does Matter Become Solid When Observed? Max Planck's Theory

  • dieter007
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Undergrad Quantum numbers of Landau levels

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High School The Possibility of Induced Quantum Mechanical Tunneling?

  • Pau
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Graduate Correlation functions in an interacting theory

  • spaghetti3451
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High School How to create quantum entangled electrons

  • IsaiahvH
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High School Are photons really necessary in physics?

  • Uriel
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Graduate Wave of an outgoing anti-particle in quantum field theory?

  • goodphy
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Undergrad Bohr model, Why do we assume a standing wave?

  • kidsasd987
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Undergrad Do electrons really behave like waves?

  • LSMOG
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High School Why did Bohr and Heisenberg favor indeterminate quantum reality over hidden variables?

  • jeremyfiennes
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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle: Energy of Unstable Particle?

  • Kara386
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Undergrad Why is photon energy proportional to frequency, not amplitude?

  • kiyoshi7
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Graduate Minimum uncertainty in electron position

  • FrederikPhysics
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Undergrad Explaining musical consonance with wave function interference

  • JohnnyGui
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Undergrad Hamiltonian matrix - Eigenvectors

  • Konte
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Graduate H-theorem in quantum information theory

  • PeterDonis
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Undergrad Could somebody tell me good book about degenerate matter ?

  • VonNathan
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Undergrad Hartree Fock v.s. Configuration Interaction

  • Jan Hidding
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High School Does the Initial Emission in the Double Slit Experiment Have a Trajectory?

  • bluecap
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Graduate Conjugate variables in the Fourier and Legendre transforms

  • redtree
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Undergrad Macroscopic versus microscopic standing waves

  • Saw
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Undergrad Integration Method Used to Transform Equation 1 into Equation 2?

  • knockout_artist
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High School How long can a virtual particles exist in a vacuum state?

  • mitrasoumya
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Undergrad Entangled particle on a nanoprobe.

  • Tim Cavanaugh
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Undergrad Vacuum fluctuations - possible stupid question

  • Tim Gillespie
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High School How does a Bell State lead to a probability in the CHSH game

  • IsaiahvH
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Undergrad Why are E and gamma considered canonically conjugate in the Gauss law?

  • naima
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Insights How can anyons exist in 2D if all particles are bosons or fermions?

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Graduate Transverse polarizations of a massless spin 1 particle

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High School Difference between the triplet and singlet states of two qubits

  • IsaiahvH
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Graduate Factors in the theory of a complex scalar field

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Undergrad Decoherence and standard formalism

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Undergrad Ionization and Nodes in the Hydrogen Wave Function

  • Jamison Lahman
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Insights Struggles with the Continuum - Conclusion - Comments

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Undergrad Is unpolarized light made of randomly polarized photons?

  • Dadface
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High School Which fundamental properties of particles can actually vary?

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Undergrad Is the velocity of two photons of different energies same?

  • TonyPSR
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Undergrad Hydrogen atom wavefunctions and quantum numbers n, l, m

  • papanatas
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High School What does a Penning trap say about the electron?

  • Eric Walker
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High School Explain Electron Revolution in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Maxwell field commutation relations

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Undergrad Why Does U(1) Symmetry Allow Multiple Solutions in Lagrangians?

  • bhobba
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Undergrad Create black hole with lasers? Physics project

  • FilipLand
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High School Can quantum mechanics enable new energy sources beyond fission and fusion?

  • Algr
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Graduate Gauge invariance and covariant derivative

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Scale in mathematics vs in quantum physics

  • RockyMarciano
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Undergrad Delayed Choice Double Slit: Sending Info to the Past?

  • chad hale
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Submit your interview questions for Dr. James Gates

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Permutation operator and Hamiltonian

  • TheCanadian
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High School Does the Uncertainty Principle work through barriers?

  • dccd286
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Undergrad Is Polarisation Entanglement Possible in Photon Detection?

  • Dadface
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Undergrad The ##1s^2## configuration of helium can't be triplet state?

  • Kara386
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High School Particle antiparticle collide, teleportation?

  • FilipLand
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Undergrad Can electrons transition collectively, emitting 1 photon?

  • TubbaBlubba
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High School Do we measure the particle or the wavefunction?

  • quantumfunction
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Undergrad What happens to wavefunction if you swap electrons?

  • Kara386
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Undergrad Bohr-Sommerfield quantization of motion

  • weezy
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Undergrad Periodic potential - energy bands

  • Konte
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Undergrad Breakdown of Planck's Law under certain Conditions

  • tade
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Undergrad Discrete vs Continuous Spectra in Blackbody Radiation?

  • greswd
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Undergrad Physical Significance of 2s Orbital Peaks?

  • tade
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High School Quantum field theory VS Quantum mechanics

  • AleksanderPhy
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Undergrad Planck's 1st Derivation of Planck's Law?

  • tade
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Graduate QFT, what are the transformation rules for

  • Jonsson
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Undergrad Function describing a traveling wavefield

  • fog37
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High School Software for quantum calculations?

  • houlahound
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High School Is matter's wave nature just probability, or is it physical like light?

  • Naman Jain Kota
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Undergrad Creation and annihilation operator commutation confusion

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High School Wave function, units in the argument

  • Physou
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High School What does "orbital velocity" mean in a quantum setting?

  • sshai45
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Undergrad Does quantum tunneling affect the mass of a particle due to potential energy?

  • IvicaPhysics
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Graduate Parity and time reversal on derivatives and electric field?

  • Jonsson
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