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[SOLVED] Is the wave-particle duality a real duality?
- 2012-12-07 19:51:31
- user14445
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory wave-particle-duality duality
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[SOLVED] How do I construct the $SU(2)$ representation of the Lorentz Group using $SU(2)\times SU(2)\sim SO(3,1)$ ?
- 2012-05-17 15:11:11
- MadScientist
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory homework-and-exercises group-theory group-representations
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[SOLVED] Do virtual particles actually physically exist?
- 2015-05-19 23:13:40
- čaritisio
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory energy-conservation vacuum feynman-diagrams virtual-particles
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[SOLVED] What are the various physical mechanisms for energy transfer to the photon during blackbody emission?
- 2013-03-27 15:10:21
- Douglas B. Staple
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory thermodynamics electromagnetic-radiation thermal-radiation blackbody
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[SOLVED] What is more fundamental, fields or particles?
- 2014-07-01 03:23:02
- jpbrooks-user153707
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory particle-physics soft-question
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[SOLVED] Gauge symmetry is not a symmetry?
- 2011-08-23 02:48:20
- Revo
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory particle-physics gauge-theory research-level topological-order
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[SOLVED] Are vacuum fluctuations really happening all the time?
- 2014-11-10 23:51:29
- Nathan Reed
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory vacuum
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[SOLVED] How does the Higgs mechanism work?
- 2011-12-07 02:02:57
- Mike Dunlavey
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory particle-physics higgs popular-science
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[SOLVED] Is anti-matter matter going backwards in time?
- 2010-11-08 23:18:59
- Gerard
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory time antimatter causality arrow-of-time
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[SOLVED] Is the world $C^\infty$?
- 2010-11-26 11:24:49
- Tobias Kienzler
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory analyticity
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[SOLVED] Why treat complex scalar field and its complex conjugate as two different fields?
- 2013-12-04 20:28:35
- BMS
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory lagrangian-formalism field-theory complex-numbers variational-calculus
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[SOLVED] Grassmann paradox weirdness
- 2012-10-14 01:43:57
- QuantumDot
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory fermions grassmann-numbers superalgebra superspace-formalism
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[SOLVED] How general is the Lagrangian quantization approach to field theory?
- 2011-01-21 15:47:13
- user1355
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory quantization lagrangian-formalism
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[SOLVED] Why path integral approach may suffer from operator ordering problem?
- 2013-03-06 14:06:15
- Xiao-Qi Sun
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory condensed-matter path-integral
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[SOLVED] Why do physicists believe that particles are pointlike?
- 2012-10-25 14:07:27
- Olly Price
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory particle-physics approximations elementary-particles point-particles
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[SOLVED] Why/How is this Wick's theorem?
- 2012-04-20 20:33:30
- user6818
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory operators conformal-field-theory wick-theorem superalgebra
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[SOLVED] Why isn't Higgs coupling considered a fifth fundamental force?
- 2010-11-18 18:36:38
- user542
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory forces particle-physics higgs interactions
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[SOLVED] What is a complete book for introductory quantum field theory?
- 2011-04-11 16:10:55
- Andy Bale
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory resource-recommendations
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[SOLVED] What equation describes the wavefunction of a single photon?
- 2010-11-09 20:38:46
- nibot
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory electromagnetism photons
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[SOLVED] Can the photoelectric effect be explained without photons?
- 2013-06-15 16:29:07
- user4552
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory photons photoelectric-effect
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[SOLVED] Getting particles from fields: normalization issue or localization issue?
- 2017-07-07 16:56:31
- Sam Gralla
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory hilbert-space normalization
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[SOLVED] Virtual photon description of B and E fields
- 2011-01-22 10:20:16
- Nigel Seel
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory quantum-optics quantum-electrodynamics electrostatics virtual-particles
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[SOLVED] Do photons truly exist in a physical sense or are they just a useful concept like $i = \sqrt{-1}$?
- 2017-01-05 16:29:48
- Jens
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory photons elementary-particles
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[SOLVED] Schrödinger wavefunctional quantum-field eigenstates
- 2017-02-14 04:09:49
- Nahc
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory operators eigenvalue second-quantization
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[SOLVED] Why are anticommutators needed in quantization of Dirac fields?
- 2011-12-06 04:23:37
- blueidea
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory fermions commutator spin-statistics anticommutator
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[SOLVED] Are W & Z bosons virtual or not?
- 2011-02-01 04:35:43
- user1702
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory standard-model virtual-particles carrier-particles quasiparticles
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[SOLVED] Why do many people say that virtual particles do not conserve energy?
- 2015-12-02 15:43:52
- reductionista
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory energy-conservation virtual-particles
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[SOLVED] Schrodinger equation from Klein-Gordon?
- 2012-07-19 14:23:13
- toot
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- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory schroedinger-equation klein-gordon-equation
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[SOLVED] Do all massless particles (e.g. photon, graviton, gluon) necessarily have the same speed $c$?
- 2013-12-17 05:22:46
- wonderich
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory special-relativity photons speed-of-light mass
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[SOLVED] Rigor in quantum field theory
- 2011-03-08 20:57:24
- MBN
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- Tags: quantum-field-theory mathematical-physics path-integral regularization
