Quantum Physics Forum

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High School Virtual particles and Heisenberg

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Undergrad Solving the Schrodinger Equation for a particle being measured

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Undergrad What is the energy of an atom in a magnetic trap as a function of position?

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Undergrad Entangled, mixed state with conditional entropy zero

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Undergrad QED Picture of static EM Fields

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Graduate Asymptotic states in the Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures

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Undergrad About the position of electrons (uncertainty)

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Undergrad Why does non-commutation of x and p operators prevent simultaneous definition?

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Undergrad Measuring electron spin and measuring entangled electron spin

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Undergrad Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser with altered beam splitter

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High School [SOLVED] Regarding the Superposition of Two Plane Waves

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Undergrad Why is BBO the most used crystal for second-order nonlinear optics?

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High School QM randomness vs chaotic determinism?

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Undergrad Energy Non-Conservation in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Delayed choice quantum eraser setup with no beam splitter

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Undergrad How to prove that the L and S (of the total angular momentum commute?

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High School Particle Movement in Quantum Mechanics

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Undergrad Spin uncertainty relation after measuring σz exactly

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Undergrad On a constructive method of quantum state preparation (Ballentine)

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Undergrad Trying to understand why electrons fill orbitals the way they do

  • physicurious
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High School Is there a probability in QM that an event happens at time t?

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Undergrad General argument that entanglement can only be created locally

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Undergrad What role does Quantum Mechanics play in a internal combustion engine?

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High School Gravitrons vs Photons: how come light and gravity exist?

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Graduate Are Casimir effect quantum fluctuations virtual or real photons?

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Undergrad What Is Bell's Theorem and Why Does It Matter?

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Graduate Reducing relativistic effective Hamiltonian to non-relativistic limit

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Solutions of the Bloch equations for MRT

  • Derbyshire
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High School The nature of anti-particles and anti-matter (a dilettante asks)

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Graduate Is the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect an emergent property?

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Undergrad How exactly does spooky action at a distance violate SRT?

  • greypilgrim
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Graduate Why does Monkhorst-Pack increase while K-point mesh decreases with cell size?

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Graduate How can a 'Principle' produce a 'Force'?

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Graduate Method for delaying photon 140ms+ while maintaining entanglement?

  • criquant
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Undergrad Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and quantum mechanics

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Undergrad Phenomena: Recent + Documented

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Graduate Importance of Densities in QFT

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Graduate Two Slit Interference Experiment Variations

  • Chas Tennis
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High School Double slit experiment, expensive gear?

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Undergrad What does ## \psi^{*}\hat{H}\psi ## mean?

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Undergrad Can We Accurately Measure Momentum in the Lab?

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High School Extremely elementary questions about QM

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Graduate QFT S-matrix explanations are incomprehensible

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Graduate What exactly does 'Locality' in Gauge Theory mean?

  • The Tortoise-Man
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Graduate Potential between Photons via Delbruck Scattering

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Graduate What is the geometry of a gauge potential in the A-B experiment?

  • Anko
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High School Are photons and all matter fundamentally waves or particles?

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Undergrad Double slit as a function of time

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Graduate Proving BF action is a difference of Chern-Simons actions

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Undergrad Some questions about this vintage periodic table

  • jmatt
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High School What happens to excess energy when an electron gets excited by light?

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Graduate How to derive the quantum detailed balance condition?

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Undergrad How does spontaneous parametric down-conversion generate entanglement?

  • James2018
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Graduate Why does the description of a composite system involve a tensor product?

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Graduate Ground state calculation with a time averaged wave function

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Undergrad How are entangled photons identified among many others?

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Undergrad Confusion Regarding a Spectral Decomposition

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Undergrad Can we now explain the Fine Structure Constant?

  • RobbyQ
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Undergrad Do EM waves have negative frequency inside negative-index materials?

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Undergrad How can I model squeezed states in 3D optical modelling software?

  • Sciencemaster
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Undergrad Confusions I have regarding Measurements in Quantum Mechanics

  • ARoyC
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Undergrad How Do Gauge and Phase Symmetries Differ in Quantum Systems?

  • DrDu
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High School Interferometry: Photons Needed for Interference Pattern

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Graduate Anti-symmetric tensor question

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Undergrad Where do the vibrational modes of molecules come from?

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Undergrad How is the Schrodinger equation related to the Heisenberg equation?

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Graduate Why Can't I Derive Eq.(7) from Phys.Lett.B Vol.755?

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Undergrad Is photon energy negative in a negative-index metamaterial?

  • jeast
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Undergrad Force carrier particle trajectories and warped spacetime

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Undergrad Do Two Photons in a Radiative Cascade Exhibit Directional Correlation?

  • Clovis
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Undergrad The speed of forces, and applying relativity to force carriers

  • jaketodd
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Undergrad Callan-Symanzik equation for Effective Potential

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Undergrad Quantum Circuit Confusion On Time Evolution

  • thatboi
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Undergrad Can the Lieb-Robinson Bound be Intuited from the Taylor Series of an Operator?

  • thatboi
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High School What is the nature of de Broglie matter wave? Is it longitudian or transverse?

  • nohtha
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Undergrad Interpreting Unitary Time Evolution

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Undergrad Generating Entangled Electron Pairs

  • RobbyQ
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Undergrad A hurdle in quantum computing I've never been able to figure out

  • jaketodd
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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics vs Einstein: Light Btwn Black Holes, Double Slit Experiment

  • namelessuser
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Undergrad Is there a Crookes radiometer device with photoelectric effect?

  • jonjacson
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Undergrad Can entangled particles reveal what happens inside black holes?

  • jaketodd
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Undergrad What is the limit in size that two particles/objects can be entangled?

  • jaketodd
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High School Is it possible to get the photoelectric effect in red color frequency?

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Undergrad Spectroscopy: vibronic and rotational transitions

  • pisluca99
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Undergrad Antisymmetrizing a Factorized Polynomial Vanishes?

  • thatboi
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Undergrad Is there a generator of entangled photons with fixed polarization?

  • prokopcio
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Undergrad Is g₃/₂(z) = λ³/v valid for all temperatures in ideal Bose gas?

  • Wrichik Basu
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Graduate Identity with Gamma matrices and four-vector contractions

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Undergrad Time dependence of operators in the Schrödinger picture

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Undergrad Expectation value of expanded variable in anharmonic oscillator potential

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Singlet Halperin State Construction

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Undergrad What is a False Vacuum? Understanding its Properties and Energy Differences

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Undergrad Does Hawking radiation imply all matter eventually becomes light?

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High School What Distinguishes Wavefunction from Superposition in Photon Behavior?

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High School Does Wavelength Affect Uncertainty in Macroscopic Objects?

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Graduate Number of particles in canonical ensemble

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Undergrad Feedback on my Jaynes-Cummings model Python implementation

  • JonPoplett
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Undergrad Why do heat and electrical discharge excite multiple energy levels in hydrogen?

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Undergrad The Hamiltonian elements in Anderson dimer

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Undergrad Two-photon Stimulated Raman Transitions

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