Quantum Physics Forum

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High School Does tunneling affect the energy of a particle in a finite box?

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Graduate I've tried to read the reason for using Fourier transform

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High School Electron Diffraction and the DeBroglie Wavelength

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Graduate Does Quantum Foam Influence the Gravity of the Universe?

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High School The moment we observe superposition

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Graduate Mandelstam Variables for 2->2 Scattering with Equal Masses in CoM Frame

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High School How does electron microscopy exploit wave/particle duality?

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Undergrad Can someone explain this picture to me?

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Undergrad Finite difference method for Schrödinger equation

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Undergrad Quantum thermodynamics of single particle

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Undergrad Is vacuum energy infinite? If it is, how and why?

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High School Can quantum mechanics be derived from deeper principles?

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High School Could spin be a combination of magnetic monopoles?

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High School Is this equal to teleporting information?

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High School How Does Quantum Darwinism Relate to the Born Rule and Observer Agreement?

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Undergrad Bell's Theorem: Understanding Bell's Nonlocality and How it Applies to Photons

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Undergrad Role of entanglement in general purpose quantum computing

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High School Is there a minimum wavelength for electromagnetic radiation?

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Graduate Is Brute Force the Best Approach to Proving Feynman's Denominator Formula?

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Undergrad Does the electron really spin 720 degrees?

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Graduate Spinors in dimensions other than 4

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Undergrad Unified gravity with electroweak through SU(2)xSU(2)xU(1)

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High School What is the Light Constant and Its Relationship to Maxwell's Equations?

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High School Decoherence thought experiment

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High School Is it a myth that serves as motivation for decoherence?

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Graduate Particles in quantum field theory

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High School Photoelectric effect and atomic excitation

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High School Compton’s experiment vs ordinary mirror

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Undergrad Uncertainty of electron energy based on confinement radius?

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Undergrad Decoherence and time reversal asymmetry

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Undergrad Photon absorption and speed of wave function propagation....

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High School Is an Electron a Wave? Understanding the Nature of Electrons

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Undergrad Problem during finding <x> in p space

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Undergrad What is the width of a wave packet?

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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?

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Undergrad Stationary states -- Boltzmann distribution

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High School What Causes Decoherence in Quantum Systems?

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Graduate Issue in the electron’s infinite self-energy

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High School States as positive operators of unit trace

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Undergrad Square integrable wave functions vanishing at infinity

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Undergrad Wavefunction spreading speed in material mediums

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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?

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Undergrad Two single-photon Fock states vs one two-photon Fock state

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High School What is the relationship between spin and angular momentum in quantum mechanics?

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Undergrad Entangled system pure state or not?

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High School Is wave a physical object or its just a model?

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Undergrad Are renormalizable QFT the ''really renormalizable''?

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High School Why do we say that there is no polarization until it is measured

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High School Is dark/vacuum potential energy infinite?

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Undergrad Why does an electron undergo diffraction?

  • LSMOG
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Undergrad Why do we use Complex Wave function?

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High School Penrose collapse and Superposition

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Undergrad Is there any operator for momentum in terms of t?

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High School CPT Symmetry: Proving the Theorem & Lorentz Transformation

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Undergrad Limit to the max size of a Nucleus

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Undergrad Vanishing Hamiltonian for quantum path integral

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Graduate Feynman rules for a 0-dimensional field theory

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Undergrad Path integral and causally disconnected parts of universe....

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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

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Graduate Why quantum mechanics looks so different from classical one?

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Graduate How to Calculate Probability using Density Operator?

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Undergrad Anderson Localization and general disorder of matter?

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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?

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Graduate Utility of path integral formulation of quantum mechanics

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Insights Why Is Quantum Mechanics So Difficult? - Comments

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Undergrad Probability of one-photon loss from a cavity

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Undergrad Why is the Kinetic Energy Operator Differentiated Twice Instead of Squared?

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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?

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Undergrad Why Is the Limit ##\hbar \rightarrow 0## Called the Semiclassical Limit?

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Graduate Where does statistical physics/mechanics fit in with QFT,GR?

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Undergrad Beam in specific photon number state?

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High School Understanding Pure States in Quantum Mechanics: From Atoms to Electrons

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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

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Graduate Projection trick to obtain time-ordered correlator

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Graduate Partition function in quantum field theory

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Graduate Path integral computes time-ordered products

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Undergrad Why can't we use negative values of n in the 1D particle in a box system?

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Graduate 3D oscillator trapped away from centre

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Undergrad Green's Function: Hamiltonian and Density of States Explained

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Undergrad How does Bell make this step in his proof?

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High School Collision of identical fermions

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Graduate What is the meaning of this equation?

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High School How Does DeBroglie Wavelength Influence Our Understanding of Dark Matter?

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Undergrad The typical and the exceptional in physics

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Graduate If light is quantized, why are EM spectrum and Blackbody spectrum continuous?

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Undergrad Is Light a Particle or a Wave: What’s the Real Answer in Modern Physics?

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Undergrad QFT for the Gifted Amateur Question (2)

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Undergrad Does the wavefunction evolve only to the future?

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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?

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High School Uncertain position and momentum -- A property of particles?

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Undergrad Origin of geometric similarities between multipoles & AO's

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