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Kontilera
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Hello friends!
Im trying to get an geometric interpretation of QM and am now confused about the commutation relation between operators.
Lets take momentum and position... sure, the fact that they don't commute show that we can not diagonalize them simultanesly.
But what is the interpretation of the matrix that we get we we take the commutator? (i hbar I.)
Is it the difference we get when we change the order of a translation in position space and a translation i momentumspace?
(I cannot help to try to relate this commutator relation to the fact that P is used when defining the unitary operator for position translation etc.)
All the best!
/ Kontilera
Im trying to get an geometric interpretation of QM and am now confused about the commutation relation between operators.
Lets take momentum and position... sure, the fact that they don't commute show that we can not diagonalize them simultanesly.
But what is the interpretation of the matrix that we get we we take the commutator? (i hbar I.)
Is it the difference we get when we change the order of a translation in position space and a translation i momentumspace?
(I cannot help to try to relate this commutator relation to the fact that P is used when defining the unitary operator for position translation etc.)
All the best!
/ Kontilera