Wednesday, June 17, 2015

homework and exercises - Inverse Quantum Operator


In the quantum harmonic oscillator problem, how would one go about calculating



$$\left\langle n\left|\frac{1}{X^2}\right|n\right\rangle$$


using raising and lowering operators $a^{\dagger}, a$ only, where $X\propto a + a^{\dagger}$ is a linear combination of the raising and lowering operators?


It would also be helpful if someone could refer me to materials on properties of functions of quantum operators.




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