Saturday, December 30, 2017

quantum mechanics - How to write "postselection" operator?


Suppose, I wish to know an operator, which eigenvalue is 1 if state is exactly F and 0 otherwise. I.e. this operator should select some desired state.


Which is this operator?


One of it's eigenfunctions is F, but what one is another?



Answer



All other functions not containing a non-zero factor of F are eigenfunctions with eigenvalue 0 of this operator, the eigenspace with that value is degenerate with dimension dim(H)1, where H is the whole space.



Obviously, the operator is simply the projection on |F, so it is PF=|FF|.


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