Quantum Physics Forum

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High School Equivalence of entanglement and decoherence?

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Undergrad Energy levels generally invariant under fixed V, changing T

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Undergrad How do you derive Slater determinant from creation operator?

  • Amentia
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Undergrad Could Planck have used different energy-frequency relation?

  • pero2912
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Undergrad Does Relativity and Quantum Mechanics NEED to be reconcile?

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Undergrad Eigenvalue Problem: What Is It?

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Graduate What is the best Quantum Model to solve many body problems?

  • jonjacson
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Undergrad Expectation value in terms of density matrix

  • entropy1
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High School Order of observations in Bell experiments

  • Android Neox
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Undergrad What does the act of observing do exactly?

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Graduate Using quantum-secured communication for data transfering

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High School What is the relationship between the Planck length and black holes?

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Graduate Heisenberg ferromagnet -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking

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Undergrad Understanding commutator relations

  • TheCanadian
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Undergrad Why Can't We Fix the Gauge in the Magnetic Aharonov-Bohm Effect?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad What is the size of neutrons in a neutron star?

  • Cato
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Undergrad Proof of unitarity of time evolution in Susskind's book

  • entropy1
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Graduate Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm/Circuit Analysis

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Undergrad Lagrangian and Feynman diagrams

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High School Time reversibility in quantum mechanics

  • Justice Hunter
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High School Position of a harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Methods for finding properties of quantum dots?

  • ElizabethMaybe
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Undergrad QM - Ladder Operator QHO - factorization

  • JaneHall89
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Graduate Electron shell further away from nucleus higher Energy lvl?

  • Boomzxc
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High School Which component of light is a photon?

  • LSMOG
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Undergrad Can a Photon be Absorbed Without the Exact Energy Level?

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Undergrad Confused about the B-C-H equation

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Undergrad Can diffraction be explained by quantisation?

  • Jilang
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Graduate Phase factors and Modulus Square?

  • kq6up
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High School Two-Slit Experiment And Varying Electron Momentum

  • NaiveTay
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Graduate Collapse and projection-valued measures

  • burakumin
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Undergrad Schrödinger equation and interaction Hamiltonian

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate Forbidden Transitions in the He-Ne Laser?

  • kq6up
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Undergrad Properties of Photons: Orange vs. Green

  • Jeff Root
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High School Entanglement, correlation and randomness

  • entropy1
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Graduate Interaction Hamiltonian coupling question

  • td21
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Undergrad Why does a sum of operators act on the state like this?

  • Harry Smith
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Undergrad Is this Quantum non-locality set-up right?

  • RockyMarciano
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Undergrad Is Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Possible with Young's Slits and a Switch?

  • wywong
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Undergrad The speed of light in a medium and path integrals

  • Seanra
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Undergrad Do operators that commute also indicate if their powers commute?

  • TheCanadian
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Undergrad Birgit Dopfer interference experiment

  • Dadface
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Undergrad QM objects do not have properties until measured?

  • N88
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Undergrad Another energy eigenvalue question

  • Isaac0427
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Undergrad What Causes a Measurement to Change the State of a System in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Quantum entanglement and parallel displacement

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High School Free Intro-Level Tunneling Simulator - Download Now!

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Undergrad How are Mixed State Ammonia Molecules Separated by an E-Field?

  • kq6up
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Graduate What is the correct reply on Einstein`s thought experiment?

  • Adel Makram
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Undergrad Understanding Quantum Numbers and Symmetry Algebra for Keplerian Motion

  • gerald V
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Undergrad 1 pm de Broglie wavelength? What's pm?

  • alv
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Graduate Asymptotic momentum eigenstates in scattering experiments

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Graduate Understanding the Uniform Probability Distribution in Statistical Ensembles

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High School Is QM an Intrinsic Physical Theory?

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Undergrad Does violation of Bell's Inequality imply a preferred frame

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Graduate Proof of Lorentz invariance of Klein-Gordon equation

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Calculation of S-matrix elements in quantum field theory

  • spaghetti3451
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High School IBM’s new five-qubit universal quantum computer

  • Spinnor
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Graduate Basic strong Zeeman effect question

  • vaart
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Undergrad Solving for SHM Diatomic Energy Levels

  • James Brady
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Graduate Crystal field when inversion is absent

  • ftft
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Undergrad Why don't we use the Schrodinger Uncertainty Principle?

  • Joker93
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Undergrad Possible measurements of z-component of angular momentum

  • Fosheimdet
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Undergrad Can a clock inside a box solve the mystery of Schroedinger's Cat?

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Undergrad Wilsonian viewpoint and wave function reality

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Undergrad Second quantization and creation/annih. operators

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High School Quantum Model of Contact Forces

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Undergrad Question about Uncertainty Principle

  • Joker93
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Undergrad Some questions regarding quantum fluctuations

  • momo666
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Undergrad What is the Quantum Circuit Simulator?

  • Strilanc
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Graduate Hamiltonian of the quantised Klein-Gordon theory

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Energy conservation and information conservation

  • Rocha
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Undergrad What does simplicial mean in the context of QM?

  • Jilang
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High School Ψ=f(r)exp[-i(Et-pz+Φ/2)] a Q.M. wave function?

  • Spinnor
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Undergrad Is there a difference between EM waves and photon wavefunctions?

  • sciencejournalist00
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Undergrad Schrödinger Potential Fields with no Energy Quantisation?

  • greswd
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Undergrad Relationship between E-field and Probability Amplitude of Waves

  • tade
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High School Measuring photon momentum without annihilating it

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad 2 particles created around event horizon: out or inside?

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad Can you have a high temperature with very little heat?

  • MaxKang
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Undergrad Do wavefunctions have to be in the form of \(Ae^{ikx}\)?

  • Isaac0427
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Undergrad What is the complex conjugate of the momentum operator?

  • Joker93
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High School Black Holes, Information Loss and Causality Query

  • ricardo81
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Undergrad Does this wavefunction make sense?

  • Isaac0427
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Undergrad Free particle in a central potential

  • amjad-sh
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Undergrad Why can’t force-carrying particle (spin 0, 1, 2) be detected

  • Demian
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Undergrad Pseudorandom Entanglement and Special Relativity

  • greswd
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Graduate Quantum challenge: mathematical paradoxes

  • micromass
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Undergrad What was Niels Bohr's rebuke to Schrödinger's Cat?

  • tade
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Undergrad Understanding Bloch's Theorem: Does 'n' Label Energy Bands?

  • aaaa202
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Graduate Time-ordering fermion operators

  • Coriolis1
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High School Is classical mechanics philosophically sound?

  • A. Neumaier
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High School Superposition of measurement apparatus

  • entropy1
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Graduate Treatment of singlets in the Hubbard model

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Undergrad Down convertor 2 photon entanglement - explanation?

  • marcophys
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Undergrad What is the physical significance of <x'|x> in quantum mechanics?

  • friend
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Undergrad Temperature in quantum systems

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Undergrad The postulate of Quantum Mechanics and Eigenvalue equation

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High School Multi or single quantum state?

  • fxdung
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Undergrad Momentum operator on positon/momentum representation

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