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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Graduate Tunneling photons travel faster than light?

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High School What is ∇ in QM? | Meaning & Significance

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Undergrad Can TSQM Harmonize Free Will, Cause and Effect, and Retrocausality?

  • dm4b
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Undergrad Why do Dirac spinors obey the Klein-Gordon equation?

  • carllacan
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High School Does Bohmian Mechanics Support Counterfactual Definiteness in Its Variants?

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Undergrad Diagrams for nucleon scattering

  • carllacan
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Undergrad Polarization in laterally moving reference frame

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High School "no free will" simplest explanation for spooky action?

  • DirkMan
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Undergrad Is radioactive decay independent of the environment?

  • Schnellmann
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Undergrad Why do we differentiate in physics and why twice?

  • Physou
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Undergrad Why can't the real scalar field and the EM be coupled?

  • carllacan
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Undergrad How did Einstein see that Entanglement lead to Connectedness

  • LoveQM
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Undergrad Sum of squares of 2 non-commutating operators

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad How reduced density matrix obtained from the matrix.

  • munirah
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High School New Particle discovered at LHC?

  • Justice Hunter
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Undergrad Determinism, realism, hidden variables

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Graduate What should hidden variables explain?

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Graduate Is SU(3) always contains SU(2) groups?

  • Ans
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Undergrad Assuming nonlocal realism: What message would signal convey?

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Undergrad Why did Dirac want a first-order equation?

  • carllacan
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Undergrad How do we know the spin of a field?

  • carllacan
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Undergrad Is CPT symmetry violated in beta decay?

  • entropy1
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Graduate Can Relativity Explain Bell's Theorem Without Superluminal Communication?

  • Tony Weston
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High School Probability of finding an electron

  • physicsmaths1613
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Undergrad Is Canonical Momentum conserved?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad Spatial interference fringes in Hong-Ou-Mandel

  • Swamp Thing
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High School Second Law and "Hidden Variables"

  • Jimster41
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High School Can Instruments Alter Wave Functions Across Global Distances?

  • bluecap
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High School 2 questions about the photo electric effect

  • Supitha
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Undergrad How Do Quantum Observables Influence State Collapse?

  • Erland
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Graduate Why must a polar vector parameterized by spinor be timelike?

  • EnigmaticField
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Undergrad Why is the Sky Blue? Understanding Born's Rule & Rayleigh Scattering

  • Agrippa
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High School Do Pilot Waves of Apple Resemble an Apple in Configuration Space?

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Can Quantum Tunneling Cause Objects to Instantly Swap Places?

  • durant35
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High School What exactly are waves and how do they look?

  • Phys12
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Undergrad Solve Eigenstates Doubt: Prof. Leonard Susskind's Quantum Mechanics

  • Muthumanimaran
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Undergrad Free Particle: Time dependence of expectation values Paradox

  • Joker93
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High School Do particles not only exist everywhere but also "everytime"?

  • Vampke
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Undergrad Macro state of a measurement device and correlation

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Electric and Magnetic Fields, Photons, Charges

  • Surya97
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Graduate Where to start with path integral Monte Carlo?

  • common_2012
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Undergrad Clarification of the postulates of QM

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Undergrad Expectation value of momentum for free particle

  • Joker93
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Graduate Is Quantum Field Theory Still Relevant in Modern Physics?

  • Sussan
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Undergrad Explaining Proca Lagrangian Integral Transformation

  • decerto
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Undergrad Quantum Computers: Room Temperature Superposition Explained

  • Kara386
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Undergrad Electron wave energies different for +½ and -½ spin?

  • Garlic
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Graduate Refutation of physics in _The Beginning of Infinity_?

  • curi
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High School Derivation of g Factor and Missing Basic Steps in Calculation

  • TheCanadian
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Undergrad Concrete contrast between local and nonlocal hidden variable

  • ObjectivelyRational
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Graduate Why is Spooky Action Necessary?

  • vegasgeorge
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Undergrad A question about two-slits experiment

  • athosanian
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Undergrad Density of states from 3D to 2D

  • Matej Kurtulik
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Undergrad Momentum exchange during diffraction

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Why is the 5 used in the axial Chiral current formulas?

  • Pet Scan
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High School How does the double slit experiment prove super position?

  • Liam C
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High School What are the potential alternatives to traditional teleportation and portals?

  • Liam C
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Undergrad Time dependent perturbation theory

  • dyn
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Graduate Time dependence of field operators

  • "Don't panic!"
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Graduate QED Hydrogen Atom: Formulating and Solving Problem

  • LayMuon
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Undergrad Is SLAC producing light "light with a wavelength of 32nm"?

  • edguy99
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Undergrad Is Lambda in Bell's Ansatz a Parameter for Many-Worlds Interpretation?

  • jk22
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Undergrad Why are Hilbert spaces used in quantum mechanics?

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad New experimental support for pilot wave theory?

  • ibkev
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Undergrad Is there a 'memory-effect' of measuring devices?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Why magnetic charge is pseudoscalar

  • tzimie
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Undergrad "Asking photons where they have been" - Danan et al

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Vacuum energy versus expansion of the Universe

  • Italian_Mike
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Undergrad Can identical particles be distinguishable?

  • Twigg
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Undergrad Question on derivation/notation in a report

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate How do we *know* the Schrodinger equation for H2+ can't be solved?

  • AxiomOfChoice
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Undergrad Time evolution of a wave function

  • Abhishek Sethi
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High School Can Entangled Particles Enable Instantaneous Communication?

  • PeterPendragon
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Graduate Change of the order of integration including Dirac delta

  • GIM
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Graduate Effect of time reversed hamiltonian acting on a state?

  • Brage
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High School Double Slit Experiment: Feynman's Lectures

  • lavinia
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Graduate Radiation from a dielectric body

  • Karthiksrao
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Undergrad Photons being released from fire/heat

  • victorhugo
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Undergrad Representing Mixed States in Hilbert Space

  • Muthumanimaran
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High School In need of cool experiments for show called 'Quantum'

  • Christina Eddowes
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High School Questions about recent paper on Entangled Histories

  • quantumfunction
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Graduate On the renormalization group flow

  • thephystudent
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Undergrad Problem in Deriving Rayleigh-Jeans Formula

  • MnFeCo
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Undergrad Triplet State Symmetric Wavefunction

  • looseleaf
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High School Does Schrödinger's paradox work with multiple boxes?

  • ProfuselyQuarky
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Undergrad Making a quantum computer do Shor's algorithm

  • anorlunda
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Graduate Wrong integration in Sakurai-Napolitano(and Fetter-Walecka)?

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad Spin 1/2 Particle in Isolated Box: Pure vs. Mixed States

  • dyn
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Graduate Clifford Algebra and generalizing Dirac equaution

  • Traruh Synred
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Undergrad Relation between quantum fluctuations and vacuum energy?

  • Frank Castle
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Graduate Does true randomness exist in nature?

  • ddjj77
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High School Entangled photons thought experiment

  • Jeronimus
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High School Nature of collapse / does collapse exist?

  • entropy1
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Graduate Lay Question Regarding Compton Scattering

  • Jim Lundquist
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Undergrad Quantum experiments and entropy question

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Entanglement, can we predict the outcome?

  • friend
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High School Does Quantum Physics really defy logic?

  • CuriousPhilosopher
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Undergrad The energy term in Schroedinger equation

  • amjad-sh
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Undergrad No Infinite speed on information yet?

  • seb7
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Graduate Image force in normal metal electrode tunneling

  • Louis Fry
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