Tuesday, October 25, 2016

quantum mechanics - What's wrong with this derivation that ihbar=0?


Let ˆx=x and ˆp=ix be the position and momentum operators, respectively, and |ψp be the eigenfunction of ˆp and therefore ˆp|ψp=p|ψp,

where p is the eigenvalue of ˆp. Then, we have [ˆx,ˆp]=ˆxˆpˆpˆx=i.
From the above equation, denoting by an expectation value, we get, on the one hand i=ψp|i|ψp=iψp|ψp=i
and, on the other [ˆx,ˆp]=ψp|(ˆxˆpˆpˆx)|ψp=ψp|ˆx|ψpppψp|ˆx|ψp=0
This suggests that i=0. What went wrong?





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