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.

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

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Undergrad Spontaneous Absorption of Photons in Two State Quantum System

  • Smalde
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Undergrad Finding probability of changing states

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate How to understand the electric-field operator?

  • Jeffrey Yang
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High School Polytropic process with heat addition

  • Rakesh bhatoa
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Undergrad Could you provide me a selection rule?

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Undergrad What is a time-dependent operator?

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High School Understanding Different Quantum Interactions

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Undergrad Confused about operator action

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Undergrad Defining a pulse of particular area

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate Fock space and Poincaré invariance

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Undergrad Mind Bending Double-Slit Diffraction Thought Experiment

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

  • Cato
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Undergrad Understanding Space-Time & Fields: A Flowchart Guide

  • Quest_Ion
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High School Neutrinos and Fermi-Dirac Distribution

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Undergrad What is the reason behind uncertainty principle?

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

  • steveJOBS
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Graduate Interpreting the K-G Annihilation Operator Expression

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

  • Moses Lee
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Undergrad Understanding ΔEΔt uncertainty

  • hideelo
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Undergrad Understanding Internal State in Quantum Systems with Cold Atoms

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

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

  • Einstein's Cat
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Graduate QFT and transitions between momentum states

  • hilbert2
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High School Is Wigner's Friend the Key to Understanding Wave Function Collapse?

  • gva
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Graduate Uncertainties in Poisson processes

  • marco1235
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Undergrad The Lagrangian of a Coherent State

  • Blabbityblobo667
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High School Should Fourier Transforms Be Taught Before the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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

  • PhysicsEntanglment
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Undergrad Field eigenstates and path integral formulation

  • Alhaurin
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Graduate Conjugate variable clarification

  • anorlunda
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Undergrad Time evolution after "turning off" square well

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad What is the angle in the action-angle uncertainty principle?

  • nomadreid
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High School Other terms for indeterministic hidden variables

  • gva
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Undergrad Two photon absorption or multi-photon absorption?

  • fog37
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High School Why is probability defined in space rather than at a point in quantum mechanics?

  • Naman Jain Kota
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High School Is an Electron Both a Wave and a Particle Simultaneously?

  • Deepak K Kapur
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Undergrad Quantum Superposition While Observing Phenomena?

  • DQuantum14
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High School Energy density of charged capacitor via QFT

  • Spinnor
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Undergrad Strong Force and Wave function collapse

  • Bill Myk
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Undergrad What is the Eigenvalue of Coherent States?

  • dyn
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High School No problem, glad I could help!

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

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

  • tpeabody
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High School Classical experiment violates Bell

  • DirkMan
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High School Schrodinger cat superperposition vs sharp state

  • GC2893
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Graduate Green's function at boundaries

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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser scanning telescope

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Undergrad Big Freeze: Resolving the Universe's End?

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

  • Zero-shift
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Undergrad Infinite square well solution - periodic boundary conditions

  • McLaren Rulez
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Undergrad A thought about parallel universe

  • rizkiyoist
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Undergrad What is the relation between Temperature and Quantum State?

  • jonjacson
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High School Does weak measurement cause mixed state?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Radioactive decay, falling pencils and the uncertainty principle

  • Happiness
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Graduate Quantum Computing: Difference vs Normal Computers

  • MasterSashin04
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Undergrad What happens to Quantum decoherence at Absolute Zero?

  • Oganesson
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Undergrad Regarding the eigenvalues of the translation operator

  • otaKu
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Undergrad Calculation of vibronic couplings

  • slawa
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Undergrad Relationship of Light's Wavelengthvs and Probability Wave?

  • Chris Frisella
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Undergrad Impossible to exclude hidden variables without entanglement?

  • greypilgrim
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Undergrad Is the uncertainty principle an ontological statement?

  • Happiness
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High School Does quantum physics imply the existence of randomness?

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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle: Theorem or Principle?

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High School Pseudorandomness of correlation

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Justification for introducting "Disentaglers" in MERA

  • Jimster41
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Undergrad QFT vs Wave Function: Understanding Particle States

  • MichPod
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Graduate Unitary evolution while rapid change of potential?

  • jarekduda
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Undergrad Question about superposition and measurement

  • edenenix15
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High School After the 'Theoretical minimum' series, what is essential to know about QM?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Hyperfine splitting and relative intensity of spectral lines

  • victorhugo
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Undergrad Question on photoelectric effect and this particular experim

  • CJit
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High School Superposition at absolute zero

  • DirkMan
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High School QFT for Gifted Amateurs: Preparing for Advanced QFT

  • Mr-R
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Undergrad Clarify interaction between real and virtual particles....

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Quantum Darwinism and Consciousness (?)

  • durant35
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Graduate A Closer Look at Squeezed Light and Its Effects on OPA

  • epsilon
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Undergrad Evenly pump a sphere of lasing material

  • Spinnor
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Undergrad Kronecker delta by using creation/annihilation operators

  • Faust90
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Undergrad What is the significance of the semicolon in function notation?

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad How "spooky action...." may work?

  • Suppaman
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High School Decoherence and Counterfactual Definiteness

  • gva
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Graduate Qn on photon statistics (second order correlation function)

  • Tainty
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High School Quantum Communication: Entanglement, Interference & FTL

  • ed777
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Graduate Why are the Tadpole Equations Called so?

  • Kfir Dolev
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Graduate Renormalization Scheme Dependence of Vevs

  • Kfir Dolev
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High School Photon red shifting and Doppler effect

  • Sefer Tov
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Undergrad Highly localized initial psi in harmonic well

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Quantum to Classical: "comprehensible"?

  • 1977ub
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High School Counterfactual definiteness and correlation

  • entropy1
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High School Are photons particles or waves?

  • Fiziqs
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Undergrad What determines the charge of a field?

  • carllacan
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Undergrad Why Is the Photoelectric Effect Considered Proof of Light's Particle Nature?

  • Dr. Manoj
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High School I'm conducting an Experiment -- Moving my hand through a wall

  • snakelgur
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Undergrad Schrodinger equation in terms of complex conjugate

  • QuantumDuality
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Undergrad Density of states with delta function

  • Arnd Obert
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High School Where did the energy of red shifted CMB go?

  • 1832vin
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High School Dirac Equation vs Wave Function

  • bluecap
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Graduate Transforming Spin Matrices (Sx, Sy, Sz) to a Spherical Basis

  • chi_rho
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Undergrad Why the tensor product (historical question)?

  • greypilgrim
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