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Lecture 6Information in wave function. I.
(c) So Hirata, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This material has been developed and made available online by work supported jointly by University of Illinois, the
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Information in wave function Properties other than energy are also
contained in wave functions and can be extracted by solving eigenvalue equations.
We learn a number of important mathematical concepts: (a) Hermitian operator; (b) orthogonality of eigenfunctions; (c) completeness of eigenfunctions; (d) superposition of wave functions; (e) expectation value; (f) commutability of operators; (g) the uncertainty principle, etc.
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Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
A wave function and energy can be obtained by solving the Schrödinger equation.
The wave function has the complete but probabilistic information about the location of a particle.
The Schrödinger equation is an eigenvalue equation:
EH
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Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
What about other properties: momentum, kinetic energy, etc.? These can also be obtained by the Schrödinger-like eigenvalue equation:
For each property, there is a quantum-mechanical operator Ω.
eˆ There are infinitely many eigenfunctions
and eigenvalues
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The position operator
The operator for location along the x-axis is
If a wave function satisfies the eigenvalue equation:
e is the position of the particle.
xx
ex
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The momentum operator
The operator for the x-component of the linear momentum is
If a wave function satisfies the eigenvalue equation:
e is the x-component of the momentum.
xipx
ˆ
ex
ipx ˆ
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The potential energy operator
The operator for a potential energy, e.g., that of a parabolic form (this is analogous to a ball attached to a spring of constant k):
2
2
1ˆ kxV
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The kinetic energy operator
The kinetic energy is p2/2m. Using the definition of the momentum operator, we find
2
222
2)()(
2
1
2ˆ
xmxi
xi
mm
pK x
222
22ˆ
mm
pK
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The energy operator. I.
The operator for energy = kinetic + potential energies is the Hamiltonian!
The eigenvalue equation for this operator is nothing but the time-independent Schrödinger equation:
Vm
Vm
pH 2
22
2ˆ
2
ˆˆ
EH
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The energy operator. II.
An alternative operator for energy is:
Replacing E by this in the time-independent SE, we have the time-dependent SE:
tiE
ˆ
tiH
ˆ
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Hermitian operator
When a property can be extracted from a wave function by solving an eigenvalue equation , the property is called observable in the sense that it is an experimentally observable quantity.
Does any arbitrary operator correspond to some observable property?
The answer is NO.
eˆ
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Hermitian operatorMomentum operator Nonphysical operator
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Hermitian operator
A quantum-mechanical operator must be a Hermitian operator.
A Hermitian operator is the one that satisfies:
* * *ˆ ˆb a a bd d
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Hermitian operator
The observable quantities should be real, even when a wave function is complex and can have the phase factor of eik.
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The position operator
The position operator is Hermitian, because x* = x and multiplication is commutative (the order of multiplication can be changed).
* * * * *b a b a a bx d x d x d
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The momentum operator
A definite integral of a function ψb*ψa is some number, say, N.
Differentiating this by x, we get:
*b ad N
* 0b a
Nd
x x
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The momentum operator
* *
**
0 b a b a
b aa b
d dx x
dx x
* * *ˆ ˆa x b b x ap d p d
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The kinetic energy operator
A definite integral is some constant.
Differentiating by x,
*b
ad Nx
*
0ba
Nd
x x x
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The kinetic energy operator
* *
2 * *
2
0 b ba a
b b aa
d dx x x x
dx x x
2 * *
2b b a
a d dx x x
2 **
2a b a
b d dx x x
Starting from an expression where
ψa and ψb* are swapped
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The kinetic energyoperator
2 2 **
2 2a b
b ad dx x
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The Hamiltonian
* * *ˆ ˆb a a bH d H d
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Properties of an Hermitian operator
Its eigenvalues are real. Its eigenfunctions are
orthogonal. Its eigenfunctions are
complete.
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Real eigenvalues
Consider an eigenfunction and eigenvalue of an Hermitian operator. At this point, we do not know if a is a real or a complex value. The eigenfunction is normalized.
Multiply ψa* from the left and integrate
* *ˆa a a ad a d a
ˆa aa
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Real eigenvalues
Take the complex conjugate of the previous eigenvalue equation.
Multiply ψa from the left and integrate
* * * * *ˆa a a ad a d a
* * * *ˆa aa
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Real eigenvalues
Because Ω is Hermitian, we have
* *ˆa a a ad a d a
* * * * *ˆa a a ad a d a
Equal
*a a a is real
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Orthogonality
What are “orthogonal” functions? Two functions ψa and ψb are orthogonal if
Eigenfunctions ψa and ψb corresponding to two different eigenvalues a and b are always orthogonal.
* 0b ad
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Orthogonality
Multiply ψb* from the left of the first equation and ψa from the left of the second equation and integrate
* * *
ˆ
ˆa a
b b
a
b
* * *ˆb a b a b ad a d a d
* * * *ˆa b a b a bd b d b d
Equal
b = b*
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Orthogonality
* 0b ad
* *b a b aa d b d
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Completeness
In a two-dimensional space, any vector can be written as a linear combination of orthogonal vectors x and y.
In three-dimension, we need three orthogonal vectors x, y, and z that expands any vector.
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Completeness
Any function (that conforms to the allowable forms of wave functions) is expressed as a linear combination of (orthogonal) eigenfunctions of an Hermitian operator.
In this sense, eigenfunctions of an Hermitian operator is complete.
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Summary In quantum mechanics, we translate energy
and other observable quantities to operators, which must be Hermitian.
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Summary A Hermitian operator satisfies
It has the following three important properties: (1) its eigenvalues are real; (2) its eigenfunctions are orthogonal*; (3) its eigenfunctions form a complete set.
* * *ˆ ˆb a a bd d
*Exception exists: Two eigenfunctions corresponding to an identical eigenvalue may not be orthogonal. However, they can be made orthogonal to each other.
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Summary
Eigenvalue equations of these operators:
First of these is called the time-independent Schrödinger equation.
We know that the energy of the particle in state Ψa is E, the position of the particle in state Ψb is x, and the momentum of the particle in state Ψc is px.