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Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
(from “quantum mechanics” by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji)
6th postulate: The time evolution of the state vector
is governed by the Schroedinger equation
(t)
d
ih (t) H(t)(t)
dt
where H(t) is the observable associated with the total energy of the system.
1st postulate: At a fixed time t0, the state of a
physical system is defined by specifying a ket
(t 0 )
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
(from “quantum mechanics” by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji)
2nd postulate: Every measurable physical quantity
is described by an operator
Qˆ .
Q
This operator is an observable.
3rd postulate: The only possible result of the
measurement of a physical quantity
Q is one of the eigenvalues
of the corresponding
observable
Qˆ .
4th postulate (non-degenerate): When the physical quantity Q
is measured on a system in the normalized state the probability of
ˆ is
obtaining the eigenvalue an of the corresponding observable Q
P an un
2
where
un
is the normalizedeigenvector of
associated with
the eigenvalue
an .
Qˆ
Physical interpretation of
2
*
is a probability density. The probability of
finding the particle in the volume element
2
x, y,z,t dxdydz.
General solution for
x, y,z,t
Try separation of variables:
dxdydz
at time
n t e
iEn t / h
and
is
x, y,z,t n x, y,z n t
Plug into TDSE to arrive at the pair of linked equations:
t
Hˆ n E nn
Orthogonality:
For
a , b
which are different eigenvectors of
we have orthogonality:
*
ab 0
bra/ket
Let us prove this to introduce the
notation used in the textbook
Hn E nn