- Calculate the commutator where and .
State the uncertainty principle for and .
Answer
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A particle of mass is in a 1 dimensional potential . Calculate the rate of change of
the expected values of and , (
and
).
Your answer will obviously depend on the state of the particle and on the potential.
Answer
- Compute the commutators
and for the 1D harmonic oscillator.
Answer
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Assume that the states are the eigenstates of the
Hamiltonian with eigenvalues , (
).
- a)
- Prove that
for an arbitrary linear operator .
- b)
- For a particle of mass moving in 1-dimension, the Hamiltonian is
given by
. Compute the commutator [H,X] where
is the position operator.
- c)
- Compute the mean momentum in the state .
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At , a particle of mass is in the Harmonic Oscillator state
.
Use the Heisenberg picture to find the expected value of as a function of time.
Jim Branson
2013-04-22