The following is a section from Sakurai's book "Modern Quantum mechanics" where he explains the translation operator J commutation with position operator ˆx on the subspace |x′⟩:
On the next page he then states "By choosing d→x′ in the direction of ˆxj and forming the scalar product with ˆxi, we obtain [xi,Kj]=iδij"
Can anyone see the working that yields that equation?
Thanks for any assistance
Answer
The equation −ix(K⋅dx′)+i(K⋅dx′)x=dx′ written in components is: ∑j(−ixiKkdx′k+iKkdx′kxi)=dx′i.
Now, setting dx′k=δkj, we get −ixiKj+iKjxi=δij.
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