Quantum Physics Forum

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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 Does dark matter have stronger wave-like properties due to its low mass?

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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 If electrons can deflect photons, doesn't that make electrons waves?

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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?

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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 Why do atomic orbitals and multipoles have similar geometry?

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High School How does Quantum Teleportation Work?

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High School Is Consciousness Influencing Branch Selection in Quantum Decoherence?

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Graduate Uncoupled excitations in frequency space for atomic chains

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Undergrad Are spin eigenvectors | + > and | - > opposite in direction?

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Graduate Mathematical Format of Lagrangian vs Symmetries

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High School How do I calculate electron acceleration by gravitational waves

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Undergrad What equation is this and what does it describe?

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Graduate Can we derive quantification of energy mathematically?

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High School Virtual Particles; Making the Universe an Open System?

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Undergrad Plane wave solution to Dirac equation

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Undergrad Schroedinger Equation from Variational Principle

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Undergrad Scientific American Entanglement Movie

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High School Why do quantum effects arise due to microscopic size?

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Graduate Experimental values for screening constants? (Slater rules)

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High School Help with relationships in equations ΔX/L = λ/d?

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Undergrad Are we in a simulation and quantum tunneling?

  • ChrisB
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Undergrad Can we find a quantum analogue of the Bertrand paradox?

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High School Why the square of the wave function equals probability?

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Undergrad Why diagonalize perturbation only in degenerate subspace

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High School How and why do quantum fields interact with each other?

  • Daniel Bolstad
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Undergrad Eigenstates of two Coupled Harmonic Oscillator

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High School Projection Operator: What Math Operation Does it Represent?

  • Kevin McHugh
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Undergrad Is dψ/dx zero when x is infinite in QM?

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Undergrad Schrödinger's Equation Infinite Potential Well

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High School How is the Hydrogen Atom's Wave Function Separable?

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High School All the Universe belong to Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad QFT for the Gifted Amateur Question?

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Undergrad Planck's constant and quantization of energy

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Graduate Does spacetime lose its determinism in third dimension?

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Undergrad A two-fold quantum delayed-choice experiment

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Undergrad Classical Mechanics v Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad What causes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

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Undergrad Difference between virtual and real photons in electromagnetism and gravity

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Undergrad Are hidden variables in Bell experiments state-dependent or detector-dependent?

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High School About the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment

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High School Double slit simulator with polarizers before each slit

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High School What does quantum spin actually define?

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Undergrad Debunk these news stories (QM Radar)

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Graduate Confusion about Derivation of Vacuum Rabi Rate

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High School Random transfer in entanglement

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High School Could a clock use Planck time as its fundamental unit?

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Undergrad CFD - Counterfactual Definiteness

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Undergrad What Is The Nature Of Absorption Randomity?

  • Chris Frisella
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High School Quantum superposition of Coulomb potential

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Undergrad Harmonic Oscillator in 3D, different values on x, y and z

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High School Can Gravitons Interact with Magnetic Fields and Explain Light Bending?

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High School The electron field as values of what quantity?

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Undergrad Strong force and superposition

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Undergrad Eigenvalues, eigenvectors and the expansion theorem

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High School Uncertainty Principle - uncertainty in mass.

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High School Does a photon have spatial dimensions as a wave or particle?

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Undergrad When is a given state an eigenstate of a given operator?

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Undergrad QM has never made a prediction contradicted by experiment

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High School Why does China's quantum science satellite conduct experiments in space?

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Undergrad Moment and the Larmor precession

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Undergrad Finite difference Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Quantum mechanics getting position operator from momentum

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Graduate Complex scalar field - commutation relations

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Graduate Relevant interactions in quantum field theory

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Undergrad Simple physical example for addition of angular momentum?

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High School Position of a particle immediately after a measurement

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Undergrad Photon Interval vs Areal Density for Changing Intensity

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Graduate Stark effect - theory vs experiment?

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Undergrad What potential is used to solve the Schrödinger equation for electrons in an atom?

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Undergrad Should the position basis be quantized?

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Undergrad What lead N.Bohr to come up with his postulates?

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Undergrad What Is the Origin of the Singlet State in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate What physics would look like if QM had not been invented?

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Undergrad About magnetic momentum in quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Why is the momentum operator Hermitian?

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Graduate States in relativistic quantum field theory

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Undergrad Does the +/- 1 term in bosonic and fermionic statistics matter

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Insights Struggles with the Continuum - Part 5 - Comments

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Undergrad Why the energy inversely propotional to n^2 in Bohr model

  • KFC
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Undergrad About classical and quantum-mechanical statistics

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Undergrad Is impact parameter more dependent on the scattering center or incoming wave?

  • Kevin McHugh
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Graduate Given decoherence, do we still need random quantum jumps and

  • Giulio Prisco
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Undergrad What's so strange about entangled particles?

  • kent davidge
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Undergrad Why Not Mess with the Potential?

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Undergrad Ontology of wavefunction vs. ontology of electric field

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High School Classical EM Wave: Can Model be Proved Wrong?

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Undergrad History of the modeling of light

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Undergrad Where Does Larmor Precession Occur?

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Graduate What is the role of averaging holonomies in gauge invariance within GR?

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Undergrad Limiting behavior of quantum elastic collision

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Undergrad Is the state observer dependent

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Undergrad State space of a standing wave?

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