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.

Threads

Graduate Wavefunction matching two different H, not just V

  • SturgySturges
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Delayed choice, pseudo-retrocausality, massive particles

  • Quantum of Solace
  • · Replies 23 ·
Replies
23

Undergrad Particle number conservation and motivations for QFT

  • Frank Castle
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22

Undergrad Zeeman effect sign of circular polarization

  • Khashishi
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate What is the physical significance of the unitary matrix in this optical device?

  • naima
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Undergrad Why are total orbital QN l,m zero for closed subshell?

  • goodphy
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

High School Is the wave function physical ?

  • DoobleD
  • · Replies 26 ·
Replies
26

High School Accuracy in speed of photon - uncertainty?

  • chester20080
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Undergrad Evalutaion of Schrodinger's equation

  • student354
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Comments on updated delayed choice erasure graphic

  • Strilanc
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

High School Why is momentum the fourier transform of the wavefunction ?

  • DoobleD
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Undergrad Sign of amplitude in sinusoidal wave boundary conditions

  • Soren4
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

High School What is the origin of Observables?

  • entropy1
  • · Replies 31 ·
2
Replies
31

High School An application of the uncertainty principle

  • Youyang Zhao
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad How can you visualize the Higgs field, or can you?

  • scientepid
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Undergrad Spontaneous Absorption of Photons in Two State Quantum System

  • Smalde
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Undergrad Finding probability of changing states

  • TheCanadian
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate How to understand the electric-field operator?

  • Jeffrey Yang
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

High School Polytropic process with heat addition

  • Rakesh bhatoa
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Could you provide me a selection rule?

  • goodphy
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad What is a time-dependent operator?

  • weezy
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18

High School Understanding Different Quantum Interactions

  • jackferry
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Why does momentum operator act on both bra and ket in <x|p|ψ>?

  • dyn
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Undergrad What is a coherent pulse of specified area?

  • TheCanadian
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Fock space and Poincaré invariance

  • Gedankenspiel
  • · Replies 24 ·
Replies
24

Undergrad Mind Bending Double-Slit Diffraction Thought Experiment

  • theoligarch dot com
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

High School Is Gravitational Quantization Supported by the Stability of Orbital Electrons?

  • Cato
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Undergrad Is spacetime a field or are fields excitations of spacetime?

  • Quest_Ion
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

High School Neutrinos and Fermi-Dirac Distribution

  • TDanskin
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad What is the reason behind uncertainty principle?

  • weezy
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

High School What is the reason for Schrodinger's cat experiment?

  • steveJOBS
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Interpreting the K-G Annihilation Operator Expression

  • bolbteppa
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Can a Discontinuous Wave Function Be Acceptable in Quantum Mechanics?

  • Moses Lee
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Undergrad Understanding ΔEΔt uncertainty

  • hideelo
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Undergrad Understanding Internal State in Quantum Systems with Cold Atoms

  • KFC
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

High School Understanding Correlations in Non-Realism: The Role of Extra Variables?

  • gva
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

High School Wave Function of a Proton in a Box with a Slide

  • Einstein's Cat
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate QFT and transitions between momentum states

  • hilbert2
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

High School Counterarguments to Wigner's Friend as a refutation of wave function collapse

  • gva
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20

Graduate Uncertainties in Poisson processes

  • marco1235
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Undergrad The Lagrangian of a Coherent State

  • Blabbityblobo667
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

High School Should Fourier Transforms Be Taught Before the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

  • houlahound
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

High School How does Bell's inequality rule out realism?

  • PhysicsEntanglment
  • · Replies 79 ·
3
Replies
79

Undergrad Field eigenstates and path integral formulation

  • Alhaurin
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Significance of "at an event" in conjugate variable definitions

  • anorlunda
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Undergrad Time evolution after "turning off" square well

  • Swamp Thing
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad What is the angle in the action-angle uncertainty principle?

  • nomadreid
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

High School Other terms for indeterministic hidden variables

  • gva
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Undergrad Two photon absorption or multi-photon absorption?

  • fog37
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

High School Why is probability defined in space rather than at a point in quantum mechanics?

  • Naman Jain Kota
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

High School Is an Electron Both a Wave and a Particle Simultaneously?

  • Deepak K Kapur
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Undergrad Quantum Superposition While Observing Phenomena?

  • DQuantum14
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

High School Energy density of charged capacitor via QFT

  • Spinnor
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Strong Force and Wave function collapse

  • Bill Myk
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad What is the Eigenvalue of Coherent States?

  • dyn
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

High School What is oscillating in the de Broglie wave of a moving electron?

  • Dexter Neutron
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Is There a Reliable Source Code for Quantum Key Distribution?

  • okigbo anthony
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Double Slit--closing a slit while particle is in flight

  • tpeabody
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

High School Classical experiment violates Bell

  • DirkMan
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

High School Schrodinger cat superperposition vs sharp state

  • GC2893
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Green's function at boundaries

  • mupsi
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser scanning telescope

  • 0xDEAD BEEF
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Undergrad Big Freeze: Resolving the Universe's End?

  • Galactic explosion
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Undergrad Planck-Einstein: how does it separate classical from Quantum?

  • Zero-shift
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Infinite square well solution - periodic boundary conditions

  • McLaren Rulez
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

Undergrad A thought about parallel universe

  • rizkiyoist
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Undergrad What is the relation between Temperature and Quantum State?

  • jonjacson
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

High School Does weak measurement cause mixed state?

  • entropy1
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Radioactive decay, falling pencils and the uncertainty principle

  • Happiness
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Quantum Computing: Difference vs Normal Computers

  • MasterSashin04
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad What happens to Quantum decoherence at Absolute Zero?

  • Oganesson
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Regarding the eigenvalues of the translation operator

  • otaKu
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Calculation of vibronic couplings

  • slawa
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Relationship of Light's Wavelengthvs and Probability Wave?

  • Chris Frisella
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Impossible to exclude hidden variables without entanglement?

  • greypilgrim
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Is the uncertainty principle an ontological statement?

  • Happiness
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

High School Can deterministic processes underlie quantum probability distributions?

  • raphalbatros
  • · Replies 86 ·
3
Replies
86

Undergrad Uncertainty Principle: Theorem or Principle?

  • facenian
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

High School Pseudorandomness of correlation

  • entropy1
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Justification for introducting "Disentaglers" in MERA

  • Jimster41
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad What corresponds to the wave function in quantum field theory?

  • MichPod
  • · Replies 31 ·
2
Replies
31

Graduate Unitary evolution while rapid change of potential?

  • jarekduda
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Undergrad Can some properties of a particle be collapsed while others remain in superposition?

  • edenenix15
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

High School What to study in quantum mechanics after Susskind's Theoretical minimum?

  • entropy1
  • · Replies 82 ·
3
Replies
82

Undergrad Hyperfine splitting and relative intensity of spectral lines

  • victorhugo
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Undergrad Question on photoelectric effect and this particular experim

  • CJit
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

High School Superposition at absolute zero

  • DirkMan
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

High School QFT for Gifted Amateurs: Preparing for Advanced QFT

  • Mr-R
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Do real electrons interact with virtual particle pairs in path integrals?

  • asimov42
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Quantum Darwinism and Consciousness (?)

  • durant35
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

Graduate Why does an OPA produce squeezed signal and idler photons?

  • epsilon
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Evenly pump a sphere of lasing material

  • Spinnor
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Kronecker delta by using creation/annihilation operators

  • Faust90
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad What is the significance of the semicolon in function notation?

  • Swamp Thing
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Undergrad Could entangled particles remain connected through time?

  • Suppaman
  • · Replies 112 ·
4
Replies
112

High School Decoherence and Counterfactual Definiteness

  • gva
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Qn on photon statistics (second order correlation function)

  • Tainty
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

High School Can entangled particles communicate faster than light through interference?

  • ed777
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Why are the Tadpole Equations Called so?

  • Kfir Dolev
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Renormalization Scheme Dependence of Vevs

  • Kfir Dolev
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1