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However, their application in highly specialized scientific domains\u2014such as quantum physics\u2014remains limited, particularly in educational settings where precision and domain expertise are crucial. Given the abstract nature and mathematical rigor of quantum theory, delivering accurate AI\u2010assisted support in this field is both technically demanding and educationally valuable. To address these challenges, we propose a retrieval\u2010augmented generation (RAG) framework that incorporates a domain\u2010specific knowledge base constructed from authoritative quantum physics textbooks. Our approach introduces customized strategies at both the preretrieval and postretrieval stages to enhance the relevance of retrieved content, mitigate hallucinations, and improve factual accuracy and contextual alignment. This tighter integration between retrieval and generation substantially improves the system's ability to produce reliable and pedagogically meaningful responses. To enable rigorous and systematic evaluation, we present PhysicBench\u2014the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for quantum physics question answering in RAG systems. Unlike existing datasets, which are either scarce or ill\u2010suited to this domain, PhysicBench supports fine\u2010grained evaluation across key components of the RAG pipeline, including document retrieval, ranking effectiveness, and answer generation accuracy. It fills a critical gap in current resources and provides detailed metrics for performance analysis at each stage. Experimental results show that our proposed system significantly outperforms LLM\u2010only baselines, highlighting the effectiveness of domain\u2010aware RAG approaches. 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