You're absolutely right, there was a factor of a half in the original question that I completely missed, thanks. I must have checked the original problem a dozen times before posting and didn't spot it, I hate my brain sometimes.
Thanks again,
Tim
First, I appologise if this is in the wrong place, while the book is QM, the question is pure maths. Also I'm not sure if this techically counts as homework as I am self studying. Finally, sorry for the poor formatting, I'm not that good with LaTeX
Homework Statement
Given the matrix...
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I was reading Hawking's "The Grand Design" and I came up with a question I didn't know the answer to. He describes a variant of the two slit experiment with particles where a faint light is shone on the slits to determine which one each particle goes through. Naturally this destroys the...