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  • Today, I want to just continue with the review of quantum mechanics, introduce the Schrodinger

  • and the Heisenberg pictures before, we start quantize electromagnetic fields.

  • So, yesterday when we finished, we were looking at some problems for example; suppose I take

  • a harmonic oscillator in one of the eigenstates of the energy and ket. So, the energy of this

  • state is n plus half h cross omega. Can you calculate the expectation value of

  • x in this state. We have done this yesterday is it okay, so this is 0 expectation value

  • of x square, So, I have to calculate n x, x n. i substitute x cap in terms of a and

  • a dagger with this be 0, this will not be 0. Let me give you the value x square expectation

  • value is h cross by m omega into n plus half, expectation value of x is 0. Expectation value

  • of x square is so much similarly, expectation value of P is 0 and expectation value of P

  • square is m h cross omega into n plus half. So, as I mentioned yesterday, the energy eigenstates

  • have well-defined energy and the phase of the oscillator is completely undetermined

  • and that is why when you take an expectation value from an ensemble of systems, you will

  • get a value of 0. I will recall that we defined uncertainty

  • in the x as x square average minus x average square raise to the half. So, because, x average

  • is 0 this is simply h cross by m omega into n plus half raised power half. The uncertainty

  • in the position of the oscillator in the nth eigenstate is square root of h cross by m

  • omega n plus half raised power half. Similarly, I can calculate delta P, the uncertainty

  • in the momentum P square minus P square. That square root of this quantity because, expectation

  • value P is 0.

  • So, I defined the product of uncertainties delta x times delta P, I can calculate from

  • here and what I find is delta x times delta P is equal to h cross into n plus half. I

  • So, I substitute the values of delta x and delta p and I find the uncertainty product

  • in position momentum of the linear harmonic oscillator is h cross n plus half.

  • And the lowest uncertainty product appears for n is equal to 0 state and for this state

  • delta x delta P is equal to h cross by 2. All higher order higher excided states have

  • a larger value of uncertainty product. Now I need to understand what is the time evolution

  • of the system in one of the energy Eigen states for example; So, suppose I take a state which

  • happens to be in an energy eigenstate. So, let me take a state for example; H E is

  • equal to E E. So, for any system suppose I take ket E is the energy eigenstate, So H

  • E is equal to E times E, E is the energy Eigen energy eigenvalue. Remember the Schrodinger

  • equation is i h cross Del by Del, Del t of E of the state is equal to H times E. If I

  • want to understand how the system generated in Eigen ket E evolves with time this Eigen

  • ket must satisfy this equation.

  • For any state for any state psi will satisfy these equation, but if the state is an energy

  • eigenstate H times E is simply E times E and I can then integrate this equation and I get

  • E as function of time is a function of time equal to E at 0 into exponential minus i E

  • t by h cross. So, Energy eigenstate evolve with time according to this equation, there

  • is only a phase change. The phase of the oscillator change with time and the time dependence is

  • exponential minus i E t by h cross. Sir excuse me.

  • Yeah? Sir if e is not an eigenstate

  • Yes I have generated state of a system that is

  • supervision of different eigenstate. Yeah.

  • Can we equation into different parts corresponding to each eigenstate.

  • No, not this equation the equation is still this. So, I will have i h cross del by del

  • t of psi is equal to h psi .What I can do is psi at t is equal to 0, I can write as

  • sigma C n, E n where, E n's are the eigenkets. So, then I can substitute here and then integrate

  • but because, I know that each eigenstate energy eigenstate evolve with time as exponential

  • minus i E n t by h cross, so I can write this as is equal to sigma C n exponential minus

  • i, E n t by h cross into E n. Sir it is like essentially by taking this

  • equation the first equation you have written and saying that each eigenstate is an independent

  • variable in this and split. Yeah they are all independent.

  • Each eigenstates are all orthonormal to each other. Essentially, they do not mix among

  • themselves each one evolves independently and with a time dependence exponential minus

  • i, E n t by h cross okay. Now before I look at the time evolution of

  • superposition states under two different pictures. Let me introduce this two pictures one is

  • the Schrodinger picture and one is the Heisenberg picture.

  • As I mentioned to you yesterday, in the Schrodinger picture the Eigen the kets evolve with time

  • and the operators are independent of time. In the Heisenberg picture the kets are fixed

  • in time and the operators evolve with time. Let me look at let me start with an example;

  • I have the Schrodinger equation. So, this equation i h cross Del by Del t of psi is

  • equal to h psi this is a Schrodinger equation and this is an equation of how the ket evolves

  • with time and so this is a Schrodinger picture. In this picture the operators like position

  • operator and momentum operator they are all the independent of time. This is a Hamilton

  • in operator, so if I am in conservative systems where the total energy is conserved h is also

  • independent of time. So, we will only look at systems where the

  • Hamilton in his independent of time. So, this H is also independent of time, but psi evolves

  • with time. Now as I said what is the important is that, the expectation value of any operator

  • must be the same whether I look at in the Heisenberg picture or in the Schrodinger picture.

  • Now if this if H is independent of time, I can write a formal solution of this equation

  • like this psi as a function of time is equal to exponential minus i H t by h cross into

  • psi at t is equal to 0. If I have an exponential of an operator this is 1 plus A plus 1 by

  • 2 factorial A A plus 1 by 3 factorial A A A etcetera.

  • With single operator, there is no problem because, A and A commute but, if I had for

  • example; exponential a into exponential b, I have to be little careful, I will give you

  • a formula for that, but so that will be I defined this exponential of the operator.

  • You can verify that this is a solution by differentiating both sides and substituting

  • into this equation.

  • If you differentiate both sides for example; if I calculate i h cross del psi by del t

  • so del psi by del t this will be equal to i h cross del by del t of exponential minus

  • i H t by h cross psi at t is equal to 0. And if I had written this exponential operator

  • as a series in differentiate, I will get essentially minus i by h cross H exponential minus i H

  • t by h cross psi at t is equal to 0. You can expand this exponential in terms of

  • a series differentiate and you will find that differentiate at one which essentially gives

  • you the same as we have differentiating just like normal quality. So, this is equal to

  • i into minus i is 1 h cross cancels off and I get H into this remaining is nothing but,

  • psi of t. So, this solution which I wrote this formal

  • solution I wrote is the solution of the Schrodinger equation and this equation represents the

  • way the state evolves with time exponential minus i H t by h cross that is the Schrodinger

  • picture. Now for example; in this picture if I able to calculate the expectation value

  • of an operator a as a function of time, I will have this A. A is independent of time,

  • but this expectation value can change with time because, ket psi changes with time. Now

  • I want to another picture where I want to take away the time dependence from the ket

  • into the operator.

  • So, let me define the ket corresponding to the Heisenberg picture, I just put a subscript

  • h here as psi at t is equal to 0 that has not changed with time anymore and this equation

  • I can invert this formally and write this as exponential i H t by h cross into psi of

  • t. I have just taken this I have multiplied by an operator exponential i H t by h cross

  • on both sides and then because, the operator H is the same this becomes is equal to 1 identity

  • and I get this equation just gets reversed into psi of H, if psi of t is equal to 0 is

  • equal to this thing and by definition this is independent of time we need now this product

  • is a independent of time. This operator operating on this will always be at of psi at t is equal

  • to 0 okay.

  • Now the expectation value of an operator is remember psi s, so no subscript means a Schrodinger

  • picture into A into psi of t. So, now I have this equation for psi of t, which I use in

  • this equation. So, what is what is bra psi of t this is ket psi of t, exponential plus

  • i h t by h cross. Please remember H is a Hermitian operator.

  • So, this will be equal to psi at t is equal to 0, exponential i H t by h cross A, exponential

  • i H t by h cross psi at t is equal to 0. I have just substituted fresh and for the evolution

  • of the ket with time into this equation, I have just substituted for psi of t from this

  • equation essentially I am taking it back here and replacing in terms of psi at t is equal

  • to 0 minus here. No. There is a minus here.

  • So, this this is psi of t is equal to 0 is a function of psi of t. So, I am replacing

  • psi of t as a function psi of t is equal to 0 right. So, there is a minus sign here there

  • is a plus sign here. So, I define this as the operator in the Heisenberg

  • picture and this is nothing, but psi of H. So, the operator in the Heisenberg picture

  • is equal to exponential i H t by h cross operator in the Schrodinger picture minus i H t by

  • h cross. This is independent of time. What is a function

  • of time. And please note that H may not commute with A, so I cannot interchange A and exponential

  • i H t by h cross. If A commutes with x H then for example; what will be the Hamiltonian

  • in the Heisenberg picture. This will be H and H commutes with exponential i H t by h

  • cross, so this is simply be H, so this independent of time. In the Heisenberg picture the Hamiltonian

  • in the Heisenberg picture and the Hamiltonian in the Schrodinger picture are the same because,

  • if I replace A by H and if I expand the exponential, this H commutes with all the H's anywhere.

  • So, I can actually interchange this H and exponential and I get unity that means the

  • Hamiltonian is the same whether, you are looking at the Schrodinger picture or the Heisenberg

  • picture. Sir why does Hamiltonian commute with the

  • exponential terms. Because this is also H only this is an H operator

  • there is an H operator here, H operator always commutes with the H operator. So, I can if

  • you expand this exponential you will have H and that H and all these H will commute

  • anywhere. So, I can take this H out and reform back and the exponential then I will actually

  • that means I can interchange these two because, this and all this function commute with each

  • other okay. Now, I need to calculate what is the time

  • evolution, I need I can calculate an equation, disturbing the time of evolution of this operator

  • in the Heisenberg picture so for this I differentiate this equation.

  • So, I differentiate this with respect to time, and let me so let me calculate d a h by d

  • t. Let me assume in our analysis here that A has no time dependence in the Schrodinger

  • picture they could also be operators which are depending on time in the Schrodinger picture

  • itself, this is called an explicit dependence on time, but we will now look at that. Let

  • me assume in the Schrodinger picture, this operator i is independent of time. For example;

  • position operator, momentum operator they will all be independent of time, so when I

  • differentiate this I do not have to differentiate A with respect to time okay.

  • So, when I differentiate this equation what do I get. I differentiate first exponential,

  • so I get i H by h cross into exponential i H t by h cross A exponential minus i H t by

  • h cross plus exponential i H t by h cross A H okay. See when I differentiate the second

  • exponential, I will have a i H minus i H by h cross because, that commutes with this.

  • I can draw the exponential first and then the factor which comes out a differentiation

  • afterwards. So, I Just write the differential of this comes and the differential of this

  • comes and what is this, this is nothing but, A H of t this is also A H of t, so this is

  • nothing but, i by h cross A H minus A H. So, if I take the i h cross on the other side,

  • I get i h cross d a H by d t is equal to commutator A h H this, is called the Heisenberg equation

  • of motion. So, there is no i h cross Del psi by Del t is equal to H psi in the Heisenberg

  • picture because, psi is independent of time. I would have to solve this equation to get

  • how the operators vary with time. From the operator variation with time, I can always

  • calculate the expectation value because, psi does not change with time at all.

  • So, in the Schrodinger picture, I calculate how psi varies with time to calculate the

  • expectation value. In the Heisenberg picture, I calculate how the operators vary with time

  • to calculate expectation values and other quantities.

  • And actually in this particular picture is closed to classical mechanics for example;

  • let us go back to the harmonic oscillator and let me calculate i h cross d x by d t,

  • x is an operator. In the Schrodinger picture x operator is a constant. Please note x operator

  • is a constant, P operator is a constant. In the Heisenberg picture x operator becomes

  • a function of time okay. So, let me put x H, so this is equal to x H comma H.

  • So, let me substitute from the values of x, if you go back we had written this h cross

  • by 2 m omega a dagger plus a comma H operator is h cross omega a dagger a plus half this

  • is the x operator. All these operators they suppose be function of time, a dagger is a

  • function of time, now a is a function of time everything is seems to be function of time,

  • but let me substitute the x operator and the H operator here. So, if I expand this, I will

  • get h cross by 2 m omega comes out and h cross omega comes out h cross omega comes out what

  • will happen to this factor half. That will not contribute because, a dagger plus a commutator

  • with a dagger a, and a dagger plus a commutator with half. I can open the commutator into

  • two commutators a dagger plus a commutator with a dagger a and a dagger a commutate with

  • half and because, half is a number a dagger a commutate with half just disappears. So,

  • I will get a dagger plus a commutator with a dagger a and I will leave it you to show you can use

  • the commutation relations between a dagger and a and what you will get is essentially

  • sorry into i h cross okay. So, let me give on this what you get is actually

  • h cross omega under root h cross by 2 m omega into a minus a dagger. This is what you get

  • and this final leads to the fact that x H by d t is equal to P h. This is the same as

  • a classical equation of motion d x by d t is equal to P by m. Now it is an operator

  • form because, these are all now operators similarly, I leave it for you to calculate

  • d p, H by d t and you will get at as minus omega square into x cap. The Heisenberg picture

  • is very close related to the classical picture. Sir that P you have written,

  • Yeah, just wait wait ah. We will repeat it. I think I have to do a little careful analysis

  • by expressing x h in terms of the in terms of the Hamiltonian in terms of the going from

  • the Schrodinger to Heisenberg picture and then calculate, but I think I will repeat

  • it again, but this equation is what you will finally get as the Heisenberg equation of

  • motion of the x operator and the P operators. So, I think I will have to be little careful

  • in this analysis, I will leave it as a problem why do not you people tried out also and we

  • will resolve it in the next class okay.

  • So, now let me calculate. For example; the evolution of this operator a, i h cross d

  • a by d t

  • this is a h cross omega a dagger a plus half a h operator will be exponential minus i.

  • No no no I think I have to go back to the fact that the H operator in the Heisenberg

  • picture is the same as the H operator in the Schrodinger picture. So, this implies that

  • a dagger h, a H is equal to a dagger a because, H H I will write as h cross omega a dagger

  • H, a H plus half and similarly, for H operator. I mean this equation you have written i h

  • cross Del a by Del d. Yes.

  • That should be this in the Heisenberg picture this equation of

  • This one. In the other equation

  • Here Yeah.

  • Yeah I am just coming back to that. I am just trying to figure it out wait. So, a H is exponential

  • i H t by h cross a H is the same, I have to work out the

  • Yeah.

  • Actually, we have to work out the commutation relations in the Heisenberg picture okay.

  • The commutation relations are the same. So, let me let me go back. For example; we

  • have commutation relations between say x and P is equal to i h cross right, this is the

  • Schrodinger picture. Now let me go to the x Heisenberg pictures.

  • X Heisenberg is actually exponential i H t by h cross, x exponential minus i H t by h

  • cross and similarly, P h is equal to exponential i H P by h cross P exponential minus i H t

  • by h cross. So, x h, P h is equal to the commutator of these two, so this into this so will be

  • x H, P h minus P h, x H let me put the bracket okay.

  • So, if I substitute this, I get x H into P h will be exponential i H t by h cross, x

  • into P because, these two operators will cancel each other and I will get exponential minus

  • i, H t by h cross minus exponential i, H t by h cross into P x into exponential minus

  • i, H t by h cross, which is equal to exponential i, H t by h cross commutator of x and P exponential

  • minus i H t by h cross is equal to because, x P is i h cross that is a number and I get

  • the operators x H and P h satisfy the same commutation relations as x and P. The commutation

  • relations have not changed. So, actually in this equation, the commutation relation between

  • x H and H is the same as the commutation relation between x and H okay. Because, the commutation

  • relation in the Heisenberg picture and the commutation relations in the corresponding

  • Schrodinger picture are the same that is why this analysis is still all right because,

  • I am using the commutation relations of the Schrodinger picture to analyze the problem.

  • Now what I will do I will leave this problem to you to write the x H in the Heisenberg

  • picture and analyses problem and finally you will get d x h by d t is equal to P h by m.

  • Sir Yeah.

  • We will be obtain to consider the commutator as an operator and then multiply the exponential

  • on both the sides. Which one,

  • That should be commutators Ok.

  • This as an operation. That's an operator yeah.

  • Then multiply the equations on both the sides and then evaluate it.

  • Yeah. Even if it is in.

  • What you are saying is if I have a commutated relation A B this is A B minus B A. So, if

  • I yeah but, this this commutator will remained a same.

  • If it is operator still multiply the equations on both the sides and it will give me the

  • omega operator in the. Yeah, this is suppose let me assume C. I will

  • have exponential i. Let me call this U, U operator as exponential i H t by h cross.

  • Remember U dagger is U inverse is equal to exponential minus i H t by h cross. U dagger

  • will have H dagger and H dagger is H and i changes to minus 1 and this is a same as universal

  • operator, I have U A B, U inverse minus U B A, U inverse is equal to U C U inverse.

  • Yeah. Yeah, this is U A, U inverse U B, U inverse

  • minus U B U inverse U A, U inverse is equal to U C, U inverse all these are operators.

  • This is A h, B h minus B h, A h is equal to C h. This is A in the Heisenberg picture satisfy

  • the same commutated relation. Yeah.

  • Sir in our case B h is already Hamiltonian which is already equal to H in the Heisenberg

  • equation. I am sorry.

  • Sir in our case B h is H so, Yeah that is one particular pair, but I could

  • have any general pair of operators A and A dagger for example; a and a dagger. So, a

  • and a dagger will satisfy the same commutation ration of one even in the Heisenberg picture.

  • If it is there is an operator on the other side that must be also express in the Heisenberg

  • picture that is all.

  • So, let me take as an example. Let me take an harmonic oscillator state which is half

  • of 0 plus half of 1 this is at t is equal to 0. So, what will be psi at t half exponential

  • minus i. h cross omega at 2

  • By h cross. Plus half 1 exponential minus i.

  • This is energy half h cross omega this is energy 3 by 2 h cross omega.

  • It should be 1 by root 2 One by root 2 yeah.

  • Can you calculate what will be x expectation value of the function of time.

  • So, this will be essentially psi of T. When I am writing, it is the Schrodinger picture

  • because, I am actually evolving the state as a function of time. The state of the system

  • was this combination at t is equal to 0 it has evolved to another combination I will

  • do later time. This is the Schrodinger picture in which, the operators are constants.

  • So, why do not I leave this to you, you can substitute this use the relationships with

  • destruction and creation operators and what you will get is essentially h cross by 2 m omega cos omega t.

  • Yeah Sachin problem okay. So, this is superposition state of two energy

  • eigenstates and the expectation values varies with time. Now what I would like you to do

  • is to please use the Heisenberg picture. So, in the Heisenberg picture x is normal function

  • of time. The Heisenberg picture x will be given by psi of 0, x is a function of time

  • psi of 0 and you should get the same expression. I can shift the time dependence from the kets

  • to the operators that is a simple exercise let me put the h. Use the Heisenberg picture

  • and show that this expectation value is consistent with expectation value for this, you would

  • need how x change of a time which you will calculated it will be in terms of a and a

  • dagger. Please note a and a dagger also functions of time now, because x itself is a function

  • of time, a and a dagger are functions of time and then you can calculate the expectation

  • value of x and similarly, expectation value of t etcetera.

  • So, why I did this is is because, when we quantize electromagnetic fields, the Heisenberg

  • picture is much easier to analyze than the Schrodinger picture. In many problems in field

  • theory, Heisenberg picture is much more convenient use than the Schrodinger picture.

  • So, when I quantize electromagnetic fields, I will have to represents electric field,

  • magnetic field by operators. In the Schrodinger picture, these would be constants independent

  • of time and a state will work as a function of time, but when I go to Heisenberg picture,

  • the electric field operator and magnetic field operators will be functions of time and the

  • state will be fixed and it will be much easier for us to analyze using the Heisenberg picture

  • than the Schrodinger picture.

  • This is a small introduction with harmonic oscillator that I wanted to give before we

  • use this little more extensively when we go through the quantization electromagnetic fields.

  • Okay very simple question, a linear harmonic oscillator is in some state such that, if

  • I measure it's energy the probability of finding 5 by 2 half 5 by 2 h cross omega is 0.2 in

  • the property of finding 11 by 2 h cross omega is 0.8. You have to write two possible kets

  • describing this oscillator.

Today, I want to just continue with the review of quantum mechanics, introduce the Schrodinger

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