Quantum Physics Forum

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High School Photon red shifting and Doppler effect

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Undergrad Highly localized initial psi in harmonic well

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Undergrad Does classical physics emerge comprehensibly from quantum mechanics?

  • 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

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

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Undergrad Why the tensor product (historical question)?

  • greypilgrim
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Graduate Tunneling photons travel faster than light?

  • lmoh
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High School What does ∇ signify in quantum mechanics?

  • entropy1
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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?

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Diagrams for nucleon scattering

  • carllacan
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Undergrad Polarization in laterally moving reference frame

  • Swamp Thing
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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 750 GeV at the LHC?

  • Justice Hunter
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Undergrad Determinism, realism, hidden variables

  • greypilgrim
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Graduate What should hidden variables explain?

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

  • Ans
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Undergrad What message would instantaneous signalling convey in nonlocal realism?

  • greypilgrim
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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 Where does Born's rule fit into Rayleigh scattering of skylight?

  • 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 How does measuring spin in arbitrary direction relate to eigenstate equations?

  • Muthumanimaran
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Undergrad Why does a plane wave eigenstate show time-dependent position expectation value?

  • 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 Physical intuition for the postulates of quantum mechanics

  • nashed
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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 Deriving the Proca Lagrangian from the field strength tensor

  • decerto
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Undergrad Why do photons maintain superposition at room temperature but qubits don't?

  • 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 Can photons be detected through a slit without destroying the interference pattern?

  • 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 How to formulate the hydrogen atom with second quantized fields in QED

  • 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 Do entangled particles need to be physically delivered to enable 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 Why can't Feynman's rolling slit apparatus be reset between electrons?

  • 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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