# All Questions

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### Loss of interference in single-photon Mach–Zehnder interferometer with detector in only one arm

I have read that if you have a Mach–Zehnder interferometer (doing a single-photon experiment) and put a detector in only one of the two arms (connected to the first beam splitter), you lose ...
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### Could there have been two “Big Bangs”?

A couple of years ago, I remember seeing a documentary on the big bang theory. The theory presented was that to explain the cosmic microwave background radiation, there needed to have been two big ...
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### Hubbard Model Hamitonian

$H = -\sum\limits_{i,j} A_{ij} c_i^{\dagger} c_j + \frac{U}{2} \sum\limits_i(c_i^\dagger c_i)(c_i^\dagger c_i -1)$ is defined to be a Hamiltonian for modeling quantum random walk of identical ...
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### Question on the degeneracies of a thermodynamic system

I think I have a basic understanding of what degeneracies are: Two or more different states of a quantum mechanical system are said to be degenerate if they give the same value of energy upon ...