10 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Is the wave-particle duality a real duality?
- 2012-12-07 19:51:31
- user14445
- 11127 View
- 54 Score
- 10 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory wave-particle-duality duality
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Do virtual particles actually physically exist?
- 2015-05-19 23:13:40
- čaritisio
- 9874 View
- 32 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory energy-conservation vacuum feynman-diagrams virtual-particles
2 Answered Questions
[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
- 7090 View
- 48 Score
- 2 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory homework-and-exercises group-theory group-representations
8 Answered Questions
[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
- 6134 View
- 43 Score
- 8 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory thermodynamics electromagnetic-radiation thermal-radiation blackbody
5 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] What is more fundamental, fields or particles?
- 2014-07-01 03:23:02
- jpbrooks-user153707
- 10054 View
- 67 Score
- 5 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory particle-physics soft-question
5 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Gauge symmetry is not a symmetry?
- 2011-08-23 02:48:20
- Revo
- 15823 View
- 131 Score
- 5 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory particle-physics gauge-theory research-level topological-order
10 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Is anti-matter matter going backwards in time?
- 2010-11-08 23:18:59
- Gerard
- 62701 View
- 88 Score
- 10 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory time antimatter causality arrow-of-time
2 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] How does the Higgs mechanism work?
- 2011-12-07 02:02:57
- Mike Dunlavey
- 11335 View
- 34 Score
- 2 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory particle-physics higgs-boson higgs-mechanism popular-science
7 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Are vacuum fluctuations really happening all the time?
- 2014-11-10 23:51:29
- Nathan Reed
- 2609 View
- 24 Score
- 7 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory vacuum
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] How general is the Lagrangian quantization approach to field theory?
- 2011-01-21 15:47:13
- user1355
- 3163 View
- 37 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory quantization lagrangian-formalism
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Is the world $C^\infty$?
- 2010-11-26 11:24:49
- Tobias Kienzler
- 1851 View
- 32 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory analyticity
6 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why isn't Higgs coupling considered a fifth fundamental force?
- 2010-11-18 18:36:38
- user542
- 10797 View
- 56 Score
- 6 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory forces particle-physics higgs interactions
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Grassmann paradox weirdness
- 2012-10-14 01:43:57
- QuantumDot
- 2714 View
- 18 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory fermions grassmann-numbers superalgebra superspace-formalism
8 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why do physicists believe that particles are pointlike?
- 2012-10-25 14:07:27
- Olly Price
- 2916 View
- 18 Score
- 8 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory particle-physics approximations elementary-particles point-particles
9 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] What is a complete book for introductory quantum field theory?
- 2011-04-11 16:10:55
- Andy Bale
- 37110 View
- 46 Score
- 9 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory resource-recommendations
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why/How is this Wick's theorem?
- 2012-04-20 20:33:30
- user6818
- 4314 View
- 10 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory operators conformal-field-theory wick-theorem superalgebra
2 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Virtual photon description of B and E fields
- 2011-01-22 10:20:16
- Nigel Seel
- 4035 View
- 24 Score
- 2 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory quantum-optics quantum-electrodynamics electrostatics virtual-photons
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why path integral approach may suffer from operator ordering problem?
- 2013-03-06 14:06:15
- Xiao-Qi Sun
- 2709 View
- 7 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory condensed-matter path-integral
8 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Can the photoelectric effect be explained without photons?
- 2013-06-15 16:29:07
- Ben Crowell
- 9192 View
- 47 Score
- 8 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory photons photoelectric-effect
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why treat complex scalar field and its complex conjugate as two different fields?
- 2013-12-04 20:28:35
- BMS
- 8402 View
- 45 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory lagrangian-formalism field-theory complex-numbers variational-calculus
4 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Do all massless particles (e.g. photon, graviton, gluon) necessarily have the same speed $c$?
- 2013-12-17 05:22:46
- wonderich
- 7533 View
- 18 Score
- 4 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory special-relativity photons speed-of-light mass
9 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] What equation describes the wavefunction of a single photon?
- 2010-11-09 20:38:46
- nibot
- 22101 View
- 44 Score
- 9 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory electromagnetism photons
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Schrödinger wavefunctional quantum-field eigenstates
- 2017-02-14 04:09:49
- Nahc
- 1402 View
- 14 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory operators eigenvalue second-quantization
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Schrodinger equation from Klein-Gordon?
- 2012-07-19 14:23:13
- toot
- 4625 View
- 16 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory schroedinger-equation klein-gordon-equation
2 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Why are anticommutators needed in quantization of Dirac fields?
- 2011-12-06 04:23:37
- blueidea
- 2746 View
- 10 Score
- 2 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory fermions commutator spin-statistics anticommutator
7 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Rigor in quantum field theory
- 2011-03-08 20:57:24
- MBN
- 8310 View
- 47 Score
- 7 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory mathematical-physics path-integral regularization
5 Answered Questions
[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
- 6728 View
- 45 Score
- 5 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory photons elementary-particles
1 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Classical and quantum anomalies
- 2012-07-31 05:59:41
- Diego Mazón
- 6228 View
- 65 Score
- 1 Answer
- Tags: quantum-mechanics quantum-field-theory symmetry regularization quantum-anomalies
3 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Are W & Z bosons virtual or not?
- 2011-02-01 04:35:43
- user1702
- 10013 View
- 37 Score
- 3 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory standard-model virtual-particles carrier-particles quasiparticles
6 Answered Questions
[SOLVED] Scattering of light by light: experimental status
- 2010-11-27 21:38:05
- Keenan Pepper
- 4995 View
- 52 Score
- 6 Answer
- Tags: quantum-field-theory experimental-physics electromagnetic-radiation scattering photons