Quantum mechanics getting position operator from momentum

[mertcan]

hi, initially I want to put into words that I looked up the link (http://physics.stackexchange.com/qu...-the-momentum-representation-from-knowing-the), and I saw that $$\langle p|[\hat x,\hat p]|\psi \rangle = \langle p|\hat x\hat p|\psi \rangle - \langle p|\hat p\hat x|\psi \rangle = \langle p|\hat x\hat p|\psi \rangle - p\langle p|\hat x|\psi \rangle$$
But I can not understand how $$\langle p|\hat p,\hat x|\psi \rangle=p\langle p|\hat x|\psi \rangle$$ is possible.
why do we have $$p$$ and $$\hat p$$ in the former and just $$p$$ in the latter? What is the logic and proof of this kind of transformation? AND why do we lose the $$\hat p$$ term?
I am looking forward to your valuable responses...

 

[DrClaude]

##|p\rangle## is an eigenstate of the momentum operator:
$$
\hat p | p \rangle = p | p \rangle
$$
where ##p## is the value of the momentum in state ##|p\rangle##.

 

[mertcan]

##|p\rangle## is an eigenstate of the momentum operator:
$$
\hat p | p \rangle = p | p \rangle
$$
where ##p## is the value of the momentum in state ##|p\rangle##.

I know that fact $$p$$ is eigenvalue and $$p\rangle$$ is eigenvector but still can not use this situation in the equation I have given...A little bit more help...

 

[vanhees71]

What's the goal of these manipulations? For the term in question you use the self-adjointness of the momentum operator to get
$$\langle p|\hat{p} \hat{x} \psi \rangle=\langle \hat{p} p|\hat{x} \psi \rangle=p \langle p|\hat{x} \psi \rangle.$$

 

[Demystifier]

why do we have $$p$$ and $$\hat p$$ in the former and just $$p$$ in the latter? What is the logic and proof of this kind of transformation? AND why do we lose the $$\hat p$$ term?
I am looking forward to your valuable responses...

In the latter, we don't have just ##p##. We have two ##p##'s. One ##p## is in ##\langle p|## and the other ##p## is on the left from that. So we don't lose ##\hat p##. We replace ##\hat p## with ##p## and put it on the left.

Perhaps you ask why can we put it on the left?