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=|F⟩⟨F|.
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