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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High School Does tunneling affect the energy of a particle in a finite box?
- houlahound
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Graduate I've tried to read the reason for using Fourier transform
- LSMOG
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High School Electron Diffraction and the DeBroglie Wavelength
- Guest432
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Graduate Does Quantum Foam Influence the Gravity of the Universe?
- Ginosko
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High School The moment we observe superposition
- Taskle
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Graduate Mandelstam Variables for 2->2 Scattering with Equal Masses in CoM Frame
- spaghetti3451
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High School How does electron microscopy exploit wave/particle duality?
- Guest432
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Undergrad Can someone explain this picture to me?
- Armando Valle
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Undergrad Finite difference method for Schrödinger equation
- aaaa202
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Undergrad Quantum thermodynamics of single particle
- Konte
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Undergrad Is vacuum energy infinite? If it is, how and why?
- Noduagga
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High School Can quantum mechanics be derived from deeper principles?
- kochanskij
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High School Could spin be a combination of magnetic monopoles?
- Wminus
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High School Is this equal to teleporting information?
- TJung
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High School How Does Quantum Darwinism Relate to the Born Rule and Observer Agreement?
- cube137
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Undergrad Bell's Theorem: Understanding Bell's Nonlocality and How it Applies to Photons
- jk22
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Undergrad Role of entanglement in general purpose quantum computing
- raphampm
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High School Is there a minimum wavelength for electromagnetic radiation?
- afcsimoes
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Graduate Is Brute Force the Best Approach to Proving Feynman's Denominator Formula?
- spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Does the electron really spin 720 degrees?
- Chris Frisella
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Graduate Spinors in dimensions other than 4
- spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Unified gravity with electroweak through SU(2)xSU(2)xU(1)
- fxdung
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High School What is the Light Constant and Its Relationship to Maxwell's Equations?
- Ali Abbas
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High School Decoherence thought experiment
- jartsa
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High School Is it a myth that serves as motivation for decoherence?
- zonde
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Graduate Particles in quantum field theory
- A. Neumaier
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High School Photoelectric effect and atomic excitation
- Metals
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High School Compton’s experiment vs ordinary mirror
- exmarine
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Undergrad Uncertainty of electron energy based on confinement radius?
- excalibur313
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Undergrad Decoherence and time reversal asymmetry
- Charlie313
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Undergrad Photon absorption and speed of wave function propagation....
- asimov42
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High School Is an Electron a Wave? Understanding the Nature of Electrons
- LSMOG
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Undergrad Problem during finding <x> in p space
- Shell_E
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Undergrad What is the width of a wave packet?
- RicardoMP
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High School Can Particles Really Pop Into Existence from a Vacuum?
- NewToThis
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Undergrad Understanding Spinors - Geometry & Usage
- Aakash Lakshmanan
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Graduate Is Gravity Directly Related to Groupings of Atoms?
- EsquireWilliam
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Undergrad Stationary states -- Boltzmann distribution
- Konte
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High School What Causes Decoherence in Quantum Systems?
- bluecap
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Graduate Issue in the electron’s infinite self-energy
- USeptim
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High School States as positive operators of unit trace
- cube137
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Undergrad Square integrable wave functions vanishing at infinity
- RicardoMP
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Undergrad Wavefunction spreading speed in material mediums
- Gerinski
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Undergrad What is the wavelike behavior of an electron in superposition?
- Kiki
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Undergrad Everett on measurements: what does he mean?
- Erland
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Undergrad Two single-photon Fock states vs one two-photon Fock state
- maxverywell
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High School What is the relationship between spin and angular momentum in quantum mechanics?
- Ontophobe
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Undergrad Entangled system pure state or not?
- bluecap
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High School Is wave a physical object or its just a model?
- LSMOG
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Undergrad Are renormalizable QFT the ''really renormalizable''?
- fxdung
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High School Why do we say that there is no polarization until it is measured
- Robin
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High School Is dark/vacuum potential energy infinite?
- Noduagga
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Undergrad Why does an electron undergo diffraction?
- LSMOG
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Undergrad Why do we use Complex Wave function?
- SiuKing666
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High School Penrose collapse and Superposition
- bluecap
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Undergrad Is there any operator for momentum in terms of t?
- Aswin Sasikumar 1729
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High School CPT Symmetry: Proving the Theorem & Lorentz Transformation
- fxdung
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Undergrad Limit to the max size of a Nucleus
- daniel christ
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Undergrad Vanishing Hamiltonian for quantum path integral
- spaghetti3451
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Graduate Feynman rules for a 0-dimensional field theory
- spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Path integral and causally disconnected parts of universe....
- asimov42
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High School Quantum Oscillator States: Is the Ladder Operator Enough?
- Mayan Fung
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Graduate Function integration of a Gaussian integral
- spaghetti3451
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Graduate Why quantum mechanics looks so different from classical one?
- Nixom
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Graduate How to Calculate Probability using Density Operator?
- Guilherme Vieira
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Undergrad Anderson Localization and general disorder of matter?
- asimov42
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High School Can position eigenstates be considered qubits in quantum computing?
- bluecap
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Undergrad Simon's Algorithm: Solving the Mystery of f(x+s)
- Aakash Lakshmanan
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Undergrad How can you detect which path an electron will take in a double-slit experiment?
- maka89
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Graduate Utility of path integral formulation of quantum mechanics
- spaghetti3451
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Insights Why Is Quantum Mechanics So Difficult? - Comments
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Probability of one-photon loss from a cavity
- maxverywell
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Undergrad Why is the Kinetic Energy Operator Differentiated Twice Instead of Squared?
- Mayan Fung
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High School Question about photocell experiment
- Clara Chung
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High School Does QM allow for entropy decrease of a closed system?
- Grinkle
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Undergrad Why Is the Limit ##\hbar \rightarrow 0## Called the Semiclassical Limit?
- spaghetti3451
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Graduate Where does statistical physics/mechanics fit in with QFT,GR?
- Indiana
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Undergrad Beam in specific photon number state?
- maxverywell
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High School Understanding Pure States in Quantum Mechanics: From Atoms to Electrons
- bluecap
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Undergrad Localization of particles and disorder at the quantum level?
- asimov42
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Undergrad Wave particle duality and phonons
- Collin237
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Graduate Projection trick to obtain time-ordered correlator
- spaghetti3451
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Graduate Partition function in quantum field theory
- spaghetti3451
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Graduate Path integral computes time-ordered products
- spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Why can't we use negative values of n in the 1D particle in a box system?
- Thejas15101998
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Graduate 3D oscillator trapped away from centre
- ftft
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Undergrad Green's Function: Hamiltonian and Density of States Explained
- Nusc
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Undergrad How does Bell make this step in his proof?
- N88
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High School Collision of identical fermions
- jartsa
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Graduate What is the meaning of this equation?
- josus10
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High School How Does DeBroglie Wavelength Influence Our Understanding of Dark Matter?
- fanieh
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Undergrad The typical and the exceptional in physics
- A. Neumaier
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Graduate If light is quantized, why are EM spectrum and Blackbody spectrum continuous?
- annms
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Undergrad Is Light a Particle or a Wave: What’s the Real Answer in Modern Physics?
- Vitani11
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Undergrad QFT for the Gifted Amateur Question (2)
- 43arcsec
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Undergrad Does the wavefunction evolve only to the future?
- Gerinski
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High School Is wave particle duality really wrong?
- fanieh
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Undergrad Are there other types of operators that can produce real eigenvalues?
- TheCanadian
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High School Uncertain position and momentum -- A property of particles?
- Prem1998
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Undergrad Origin of geometric similarities between multipoles & AO's
- Steven Hanna
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