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 Quantum number and energy levels

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High School Entangled Particles: Understanding the Interaction

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High School Why the "rush" to quantum spookiness

  • Micheth
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Undergrad What does "completeness" mean in completeness relations

  • Frank Castle
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Graduate One-Way Quantum Steering Evidence: Quantumness Experiments

  • DrClaude
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Undergrad The Higgs and virtual particles

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Undergrad Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues

  • Amy B
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Undergrad Exact meaning of the Uncertainty Relations

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Undergrad When should one eigenvector be split into two (same span)?

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Undergrad Entaglement, locality, and information

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Undergrad Does photoelectric effect include light with threshold freq?

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Undergrad Quantization of electromagnetic field

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Undergrad Inner products and adjoint operators

  • Frank Castle
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Graduate Is the vacuum a thermal state?

  • naima
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High School 2 events in a planck time not violate conservation of energy

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High School Can different types of particles be entangled with one another ?

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Undergrad Identical particles distinguished by their trajectory?

  • Bootleg
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Undergrad Why can't someone be both a mathematician and a physicist?

  • RafiG709
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High School Measurement and the creation/loss of information

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Undergrad Angular Momentum, classical vector analogy?

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Canadian PM 'Explain's' Quantum Computing

  • StevieTNZ
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High School What constitutes a measurement of which slit - double slit

  • Negatratoron
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Undergrad Where exactly does QFT differ from QM? (in their formalisms)

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High School Quantum definition of information

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Undergrad Quantum numbers - Total Energy and Orbital Momentum

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High School Disentanglemt of a system of particles

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Undergrad Can Decoherence Create a Superposition of Life and Death?

  • durant35
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High School What is ¨unpolarized¨ light exactly?

  • entropy1
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Undergrad Spin 1/2 particle confined to an infinite annular region.

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High School Has the Casimir effect been directly observed?

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Graduate Potential Energy Curve for Ammonia Inversion?

  • kq6up
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High School About the Lorentz invariance of Planck constant

  • Younghun park
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Graduate Is a Hadron a Quasiparticle in Condensed Matter Physics?

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Undergrad Why is the spin of this state equal to one?

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Graduate Symmetry considerations between observer and observed in QM

  • spaghetti3451
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Undergrad Determination of electron energy in the 2 slit experiment

  • drl
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High School Alpha is 1/137th of what? (Fine Structure Constant)

  • juniorcarty
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Undergrad Understanding the Energy Gap and Topology in Topological Phase Transitions"

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Undergrad What is meant by the terminology "single particle state"?

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad Difference between superposition and mixed state

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad Where Does Light Come From and How Is It Produced?

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High School What causes recombination of virtual particles?

  • newjerseyrunner
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High School Is it possible that god does not play dice with the universe, as Einstein said?

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Undergrad Eigenvalue degeneracy in real physical systems

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High School Silly questions about the behaviour of photons

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Graduate What kind of coherence do we have in the ground state of a harmonic oscillator?

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High School FTL communication by Quantum Entanglement

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Undergrad Quantum jitter vs thermal jitter

  • naima
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Undergrad Hydrogen Atom Photon Emission Wavelength Formula

  • math_major_111
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Graduate Degenerate perturbation theory -- Sakurai

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad Polarization entanglement - multiple tests

  • Erik Ayer
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High School How Does Environmentally Induced Decoherence Affect Quantum State Reduction?

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High School Is this QM learning pathway sound?

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Undergrad Unit and dimension about De broglie wave

  • KT KIM
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High School Flashing In And Out of Existence?

  • dstarwynn
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High School What's the confidence level of quantum to macro behavior?

  • newjerseyrunner
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Undergrad The Debroglie Relation and SR?

  • LarryS
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Undergrad A bit confused about Schrödinger's cat

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Graduate How to derive general solution to the Klein-Gordon equation

  • "Don't panic!"
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Undergrad The Heisenberg cut demystified

  • A. Neumaier
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High School Has the existence of Hilbert Space been proven 100%?

  • KarminValso1724
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Undergrad Understanding Spinor Rotations

  • gentsagree
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Undergrad Tensor Product in QM: 1D vs 3D Hilbert Spaces

  • pellman
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High School Bohr vs Einstein: is the Moon there when we are not looking?

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Undergrad Weinberg LN in QM (Section 3.5): Momentum operator

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High School Photon and half-silvered mirror

  • entropy1
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High School If all particles were different sizes, would the speed of light stay the same

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Undergrad Why do we require locality in quantum field theory?

  • Frank Castle
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High School Looking for Wilhelm Wien's original paper

  • tade
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Graduate Single qubit coherence time record

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High School Photoelectric Effect under cutoff frequency

  • Djinn Ming
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Undergrad Question regarding the Dirac delta function

  • Kevin McHugh
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Graduate Fun with Deltas and ##L^2##: Physicists vs Mathematicians

  • stevendaryl
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Graduate Why are low pressure gas discharge lamps thermal sources?

  • Paul Colby
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Graduate Is Rest Mass a subjective quantity?

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High School What's an electron doing between interactions?

  • newjerseyrunner
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High School Thought experiment violates Heisenberg? (of course not)

  • entropy1
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High School Uncovering the Truth: Non-Dualistic Particles Revealed

  • Liana008
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Undergrad What specific momentum should be used in the matter wave?

  • LarryC
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Undergrad Photon energies from Planck-Einstein: confirmed in practice?

  • DavidReishi
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Undergrad Understanding Bra-Ket Notation in Quantum Mechanics

  • Kara386
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Undergrad Direction of magnetic field measured by 2 coherent electrons

  • exponent137
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Undergrad Feynman Lecture Vol III Ch. 8 Question -- Heisenberg matrix picture

  • kq6up
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Undergrad Beta Radiation: Quark Transformation & Charge Change

  • StanEvans
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Undergrad Is Ψ2Px an Eigenfunction of L2 or Lz in Quantum Mechanics?

  • kenyanchemist
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Undergrad What Is the Tunnel Effect in Time-Independent Quantum Mechanics?

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High School How does entanglement work for spin states?

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Undergrad Why does the kinetic operator depend on a second derivative?

  • Steven Hanna
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Undergrad Why is the KE operator negative in QM?

  • sungholee
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Undergrad If operators commute then eigenstates are shared

  • davidbenari
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Undergrad Probability current in positive finite square potential

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High School What is quantum equation of single photon?

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Undergrad Photons on a CCD Vs. the magnetic or electric vector?

  • DavidReishi
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Undergrad Angular momentum ladder operator derivation

  • Sara Kennedy
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Undergrad How can I confirm Lz=ħ,0,-ħ using operators and eigenfunctions?

  • kenyanchemist
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Undergrad Probability distribution plots

  • kenyanchemist
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Undergrad How Does Superradiance Enhance Radiation Intensity?

  • TheCanadian
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Undergrad Is the wavefunction a physical quantity?

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Undergrad Transition probability and superposition

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Undergrad Demerits radial distribution functions

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