The Language of Quantum Physics is Strange | PHYSICS EXPLAINED
This is how Quantum Physicists communicate their ideas
Hi guys, so I wanted to make a video explaining some of the notation used by quantum physicists to describe their ideas. There is a reason why things are written the way they are, and it is interesting to see these reasons, in my opinion.
In the video we will see bra and ket notation, originally invented by Paul Dirac, which is used describe the wave function of a quantum state - essentially all the mathematical information we know about our quantum system, which is the part of the universe we happen to be studying.
Bra-ket notation uses a ket to represent a quantum state, with the ket being distinct from, but mathematically related to, the bra. The ket representing a quantum state can also be written as a superposition of possible results to a measurement. For example if our system is an electron, and we measure its spin, then the electron's state BEFORE we measure its spin can be written as a superposition of the possible results of a spin measurement - spin up and spin down. This superposition is mathematically written by adding states together. The numbers in front of each state are directly related to the probability of us finding our system in that state, upon measuring.
AFTER we make a measurement, the system collapses into ONE of the possible measurement results - we never actually find it to be in a superposition. There are other subtle effects that tell us that a quantum system can exist in a superposition of states, but upon measurement the system probabilistically collapses into one of the possible measurement result states. This is called the Collapse of the Wave Function.
We also see that quantum states can be very nicely described by vectors in an abstract mathematical space known as a Hilbert Space. The quantum states display certain mathematical behaviours that are very similar to those displayed by vectors in real space. Additionally, we can use the Hilbert Space to represent the state of any quantum system, even one in a superposition of states, with one single vector. Pretty neat right?
Now guys I know that there's a lot of background noise in this video - I'm really sorry about this, but after all I live with my family and they have every right to speak in their own homes lol. Next time I'll try to find a time when there isn't as much going on in the background, to make a video.
Let me know what kind of videos you want to see from me next!
Follow me on Instagram @parthvlogs - I'm going to be posting a couple of IGTV vlogs on there towards the end of the year. Until the next video, see you soon!
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4 жыл бұрын
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4 жыл бұрын
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@jaybhambure5969
4 жыл бұрын
I am not trying to be pedantic here, but Matrices are a "Representation" of a quantum state or operators. Furthermore, matrices can ONLY be used if we are dealing with a finite number of states e.g. the spin of the electron. If we have a system with Infinite states e.g. hydrogen atom or scattering of particle or even operators like the position operator, we cannot use the matrix representation, in such cases what we need is an abstract representation, which is the Bra-Ket notation. To push this to an extreme limit, no one really knows the dimensionality of the Hilbert space. We ASSUME it to be infinite (postulate of QM)
@amritkumarpatel5717
3 жыл бұрын
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@vanguardcycle
3 жыл бұрын
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This has been _extremely_ eye-opening. Thank you
seriously loved this! i now get the wave equation notation like never before!! I'm an electrical engineer by degree and I work for NASA JPL and I've studied quantum mechanics a bit for particle accelerator and plasma physics work that I do but the math for QM hadn't quite clicked for me until you just explained it in the 2d space similar to the unit circle for complex math! GREAT video! and i hadn't known about the ket and bra and bra-ket lol thanks! i really like all of your videos! please keep it up!
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2 жыл бұрын
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Parth, I know you made this some time ago sir, but you are excellent at explaining difficult subjects to curious novices! Thank you so much for taking the time to do so!
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It's probably the best lesson for me to understand quatum superposition! Thank you!
Please do more of these. They are extremely helpful for someone as myself who hasn't studied physics at university level (yet). I would personally love to see some more/a continuation on Schrödinger's equation, but of course also just whatever you feel motivated to make.
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Brilliant and cogent primer for this topic! Your explanatory style is very crisp and precise. Thank you! You definitely inspired me to learn more in regards to this subject. I'll be starting the Open University this Fall (BSc Physics). I foresee using your great content to buttress my formal studies. Thanks again from New York!
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Been studying qm for long..yet missed this simple representation in abstract space..now everything makes more sense. Thanks a lot , u are an awesome teacher and i can sense feynman technique in ur vids.
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Hey Parth! I can’t thank you enough for this... For once quantum physics started making sense to me .. I used to love physics until it all seemed getting so abstract and complicated , I lost it completely .. I have been a housewife for past 6 years and you make me think of getting back to studying physics. I watch your physics videos in my free time.. I have a request for you.. Is it possible to make a video on evolution of physics ? How different fields of physics came into being?
I love this series please continue it :)
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A great video, Parth! Thank you, I understood a lot more after watching. Hi from Australia! Look forward to viewing more :-)
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Amazing easy to understand, thanks for knowledge.
Excellent! This is what is needed for us amateurs! Thank you....
Great video! Really enjoying the series. Would love to see a series on Quantum Field Theory.
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This is great, especially great because I'm not taking physics 2 at uni and I just watch these videos for fun. Some of your other videos really helped me out for my physics 1 course though.
Great , thank you parth , waiting for. Next one 😊
You have the gift to make things stick in my head. Pleeease keep on explaining quantum physics. I am enjoing your videos so much!
@ravisekharreddy9783
2 жыл бұрын
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@4:29 Hey Parth your videos are great, and I really enjoy watching them. Just a small thing -- I psi > is not a wavefunction. Its a ket. Once you take an inner product of I psi > with either position < x I or momentum < p I basis it becomes a wavefunction. Further you cannot do these inner products with spin because it's an internal degree of freedom and has nothing to do with space or momentum, hence we only have the abstract notation of Kets no wavefunctions for spins.
You have such a uniquely-natural and logical way of explaining these very supernatural, illogical phenomena. Keep it up. 👍
You are one of those no-nonsense youtuber :) Thanks for making this.
Very well presented! Thanks!
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You just... can’t stop being helpful😊 I wish I could thank you, but it’s really much more than just 2 words with no real measure
I am 38 now .... I still want to learn QM in depth. I realise that you could help me in suggesting the correct references in addition to watching your videos... you explain everything very nicely..excellent job...keep it up.
I love this content!!
many thanks for the very good explaining.
Sir you are far better than most of our nonsense proffesors who themselves dont know what are they teaching. Thank you for all of these conceptuall stuff you are delivering ❤
"How to do higher studies in quantum physics and what is scope" please make a video about this 🙏
@bobross5716
4 жыл бұрын
You have to do a PhD in physics and then decide to do some kind of research involving quantum mechanics
@ParthGChannel
4 жыл бұрын
Essentially what Bob Ross said haha!
Great video, honestly the spirituality thing and Quantum mechanics are so realted, that's why 2 things can exist at the same time and at the same place.
Dude . You are amazing ! I have been learning QM for the last couple of months and I came to a situation where I have loads of doubts which are not quite reasonable to ask my professor. but I must say your videos are helping me alot . What are the important mathematical tools we should be thorough before learning QM ?? If you can put up a video on that ,it would be really helpful.
You posted a video 3 days ago. 16000 views. Nice to see how far you've come
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thank you so much!!!!! really helpful and interesting!!! please do more quantum physics videos!!!
Thank you so much for this video.
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I'm 16 and writing an essay about the Dirac equation, thanks so much, your videos save my life!
Great video and easy to understand.
I'm about to retire and allow myself some time to return to the Quantum Physics that I didn't get years ago. This is exactly what I need and I can't wait, thank you. With yourself and Sal Khan what more could we need.
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Yes! Yes! More of this! I'm finally understanding the math (I mean, also after reading Susskind's The Absolute Minimum) but YES! More! I'm finally getting it! I never understood quantum physics this well in university.
Parth, very well explained..keep it up 👌
Amazing video and I love your format, sir. Would you mind divulging what software u use for the editing
Excellent explanation.
wow, an amazing video again ... greetings Parth G
Pretty helpful - especially where you get to the dreaded Hilbert spaces - thank you!
@schmetterling4477
2 жыл бұрын
For the purposes of physics a Hilbert space behaves exactly like a finite dimensional linear vector space and nobody is asking you to deal with the actual mathematical complications.
Nycc video....😊 😊
Wow great work dear! please explain QFT and its maths...
Excellent!
now, eventualy i understand it! thank you
Great summary of QM's core concepts! Wave function, superposition, collape, ... :D Small comment: at 01:50, 〈 ψ | ψ 〉 is only equal to 1 if the wave function is normalized!
Fantástic explication . Thanks and cumpliment.
Excellent! Please make a video about singularities
Please do a video on spin . I love it
This type of video about Quantum physics was really necessary for me.....
@ParthGChannel
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
Wow. This guy explains the basics in a way that NO ONE ELSE does. I used bra-ket notation for a year in grad school without knowing, really, what the hell I was doing. I just did it by following patterns which allowed me to pass tests. No book, professor, or classmate could explain it - they just used the very concepts in question in their explanations. This Parth guy boils it down to the fundamentals - a natural teacher and almost a mind reader.
I love you brother. A brother from India. Do this as much as you can please.
When you added that purple vector, something clicked in my head. I think I actually understand why it's called a wave now!