Wednesday, March 30, 2016

operators - Quantum non-unitary transformation?



Let us say that I apply a non-unitary transformation ˆA to the ket's: |ψˆA|ψ

|ϕˆA|ϕ
Clearly in this case the probability: P=|ϕ|ψ|2
Will change. What physically is going on here? i.e. why for unitary operators we can perform such a transformation but for non-unitary operators we can't?




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