Summary: Quantum Mechanics

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  • MIT Quantum 2 - Lecture 1, 46:00 - 1:04:00 (1

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  • What are the two types of identities that play there own roles?

    Eigenstates and orthonormality.
  • What is the orthonormality in functions?

    It is a concept from vectors. Two vectors are orthogonal and if they are orthonormal they have the same unit length.  In some sense functions are vectors in an infinite dimensional space. A vector but not in 3D dimensions. 

    If you have a function you have to give values of infinite many points and if you have a vector you have to give components.
  • What is the more subtle properties?

    A set of function is enough to expand any function. So any function can be written as a superposition. This refers to the property of completeness.  

    It is an assumption but it works! 
  • How can we still get a solution to the schrodingen equation?

    This is THE solution to the schrodinger equation and not just a.
  • What to do when you don't know the coefficient?

    You can calculate them by using the orthonormality. You integrate it against another psy start 
  • How do we plug the integral back in?

    You use a delta function because continuous variable
  • So w have two things going on, how do we distinguish completeness and orthonormality?

    • Orthonormality
      • you sum over space and you keep labels arbitrary
      • these functions depend on space on the labels
    • Completeness
      • you keep the positions arbitrary but you keep the labels
        • you use a delta function


    By looking at the mathematics you can see that there is a nice duality between them 
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  • What is a stationary state?

    When there is no timedependence. So whilst the wave function does depend on t. The probability density does not depend on it.
  • What is an enegry eigenstate?

    A solutiono to psix (TISE) associated with an energy E.
  • How is the set of all alowerd values of E called?

    The spectrum of the Hamiltonian.
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