« first day (3113 days earlier)      last day (570 days later) » 

 
7 hours later…
HNQ
9:32 AM
3
Q: Given Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, why do we not see random colors when monochromatic light passes through a narrow slit?

Amit Kumar GoldyI was looking at this experiment by Veritasium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8FTr2qMutA&t=4s Here he shines a green light through a narrow slit and we see the light smear as the slits becomes narrower. Momentum of a photon is ℎ𝜆. Since ℎ is a constant, shouldn't the uncertainty in momentum m...

 
 
11 hours later…
HNQ
8:19 PM
4
Q: Why, in low energy situations like atomic physics, are massive particles found to be in integer number states?

Jagerber48In quantum field theory electrons are conceptualized as quantized excitations of the quantum electron field. Generically the electron field can be in a superposition of number states. This is related to the fact that under QFT Hamiltonian/Lagrangian energy can be exchanged between electrons and o...

 
HNQ
9:10 PM
1
Q: Don’t understand how nonlinear resistors violate ohm’s law

AndromedaOhm’s law states that the voltage across a resistor is directly proportional to the current through. This is given by the formula v=iR. But most textbooks say that this law is violated when the v vs i graph is nonlinear. However, at each point along the graph of a non linear resistor, v=iR holds,...

 
HNQ
9:36 PM
4
Q: Real time lattice simulation

PeterA typical simulation of lattice quantum chromodynamics uses imaginary time, so the weight function of the path integral is positive definite $e^{-S_E}$. In the case of metropolis-hastings, the algorithm is basically: Initialize the field with random numbers from a normal distribution Pick a rand...

 

« first day (3113 days earlier)      last day (570 days later) »