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Which is where we were. I, I'd asked you to take on trust as a result that will be derived some way down the course.

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These results, which express the state in which you are the spin half particle like an electron,

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is certain to have a half plus a half for the answer to its spin along the unit vector n,

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which is given by the polar angles feature and fi this this particular state in which quote unquote its spin is a long end.

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Somebody asked me about this at the end of the lecture, and I have to remind you of the health warning I gave in the first lecture,

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which is that we talk about the spin being along a certain axis,

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although the although even when you know the answer to the spin, the long Z is going to be a half and not minus a half.

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And you can only get those two answers a half or minus a half, even when you know it's plus a half you.

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That doesn't mean the spin is really along the Z axis.

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There's still a substantial component of spin in the x y plane and you do not know its direction.

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So we use this loose talk. The spin is along some particular direction, like the Z axis.

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All this n meaning it's a shorthand for you are certain to measure plus a half if you measure the spin in this direction.

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Right. So with that health warning,

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the state in which you are certain to to measure spin a half in the direction and is this linear combination of the state in which you're

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definitely going to get minus a half along the z-axis and this state in which you will definitely get plus a half along the Z axis.

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And similarly, the state in which you are definitely going to get minus a half along the end direction,

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the unit vector n is this other linear combination of those same two states of well-defined spin along the z-axis.

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So I asked you to take that stuff on trust, and then we did some stuff with that.

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And I hope I persuaded you that these formulae are not completely implausible in the sense that what we did was we calculated the probability.

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If it's definite, if we know the spin is plus a half along the Z axis, we calculated the probability that we found plus a half along the Nexus.

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We found that that probability was in fact simply cos squared theta upon two and

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this behaved in a reasonably plausible way in the sense that when it was one,

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when the end direction was the z-axis and it went to nothing,

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when the end direction was the minus IT axis and other such good stuff, then I wanted to show you this.

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All I wanted to show you was what these formulae predict for what the state is of definitely

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having plus a half for the answer to what is your spin in the Z in the X direction?

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Right. It's easily done because we have the formula here.

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I was thinking I was trying some for some reason it went into my mind that I had

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to derive these formulae and we didn't have the bits on the table to do it.

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So all we have to do is plug into those formulae that features pi upon to find nought.

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That is the that that by definition the polar coordinates makes and the x the unit vector in the x direction, which I'm calling x and put in pi.

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If you put in pi upon two, then you're looking at sine pi upon four cost pi upon four,

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one over root two and five being nothing means those two exponentials are nothing.

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So the state of having your the state of having your spin definitely down the X-axis in that sense.

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Right. And again, with that health warning.

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So the strict statement being that we are guaranteed to get plus a half if we measure the spin down X turns out to be just the sum,

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essentially the sum of these two states. That's not very exciting.

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I think let's put in but now let's put in theatre is pipe on to phys pi upon to which

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by the definition of polar coordinates makes the univac to end the y direction.

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Then what happens? Well, what happens is that those e to the IFIs upon to become each of the I PI's on four,

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and if I take the first e to the IP upon four out, then the second one.

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So this cosine is one of root two again, which we've taken out, but this one becomes e to the minus i pi upon four twice,

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i.e. to the minus minus i pi upon to which is which is actually minus.

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I'm slightly worried by this, but never mind assign is of no importance.

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I thought it was a plus i. But it is looking like mine is light at the moment.

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So maybe maybe it is minus it's of no importance.

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What matters is that this state, which is physically quite distinct from this state, is also a linear combination of these two and the.

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And the. And the probability of if you are in this state,

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the probability of measuring your spin along Z to be minus is going to be a half because because this one of root two.

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So the, so the, the complex number which comes here has the same modulus as the complex number which comes here.

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And ditto here that this complex number is the same as the complex number which appears there in modulus but different synthase.

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So that what the crucial point is that the right we are working with in a

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formalism where we're saying the state of my system can be written as a minus,

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minus plus, a plus plus.

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And we understand that these things are the probability amplitudes to measure spin down on Z.

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Given that my system is in this state and this is the amplitude to measure spin up on Z, given that this is my state of my system, right?

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That's the formalism we're working with. And you might think that it's only the modulus of these complex numbers that matters physically,

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because the probabilities are obtained by doing most square of them.

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But this example is showing you that that's not the case.

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The phases of these things are vitally important as well, that the very quantum mechanical thing,

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that the complex phase, the phase of the complex number encodes crucial physical information,

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is the spin of this particle more or less down the x axis or more or less down the y axis is controlled by the duration,

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by the phase of this animal relative to the phase of that animal. Let's do another example of a physical system which which is a two state system.

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Let's talk about polarised light. This is an example which enables us to connect back to classical physics in an interesting way.

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So let's do classical physics. We know all about polarised light.

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Well, actually you may not quite because it may be part of upcoming IMAG course, but you will recognise enough of it.

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I think I can write the electric field.

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With that angle being thetr, then we can say the electric vector is equal to some number in front of cost theta times x plus sine theta times e y.

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Times cos omega t. Now supposing we.

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So we've got we understand we're writing down the electric vector of a electromagnetic wave,

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a plane, polarised electromagnetic wave that's travelling in the Z direction.

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Okay. In, in some plane, this is what it looks like.

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It oscillates with some frequency, angular frequency omega right now supposing we stick in some this beam comes along and it hit some Polaroid.

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So Polaroid blocks one of the polarisations.

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Let's let's orient a piece of Polaroid so it kills the oscillations parallel

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to the Y axis and let's only through the oscillations parallel to the X axis.

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So after Polaroid. We're going to have that e is equal to e nought e nought cos theta cos omega t e x will just, it just, it just wipes that out.

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So the intensity of the intensity of the radiation, the energy that it carries is going to be looking like in a squared times crossword theatre.

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Yeah. And they'll be we should really do a crossword, make a T average value, which is in fact a half.

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But I don't think we're really interested in that.

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The crucial thing is that the intensity of the lights that gets through is going to be moderated by the square of the cosine of that angle.

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Right. The angle between the electric vector of the of the wave and the direction that the Polaroid leapt through.

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That's what classical physics teaches us. How would we express this?

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So let's now think about this from a quantum mechanical perspective. What classical physics says is a is an electromagnetic wave.

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Quantum mechanics says it's a stream of photons, and each photon encounters that Polaroid on its own, on its lonely and some.

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And either it's killed by that Polaroid turned into something else destroyed, or it's allowed through.

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It can't be half allowed through or square feet or allowed through.

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It's either allowed through. It's not allowed through. So how does that how does that look?

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What we say is the state of our incoming photon.

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We can write as a linear combination. We can say that this is equal to cost.

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The letter of.

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A state in which it is going to get through because in some senses electric field

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is down the x axis plus sign feature of a state that is not going to get through.

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So this is the state of certainly gets through.

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And this is the state of certainly blocked. Well, we were taking the position that the Polaroid is making a measurement on the photon.

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So what was the probability? Gets through.

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Well, it's equal to this is an amplitude, right?

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It's equal to the amplitude for getting through mode squared, which is equal to cos squared feature.

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And therefore the number of photons that gets through is proportional to cost squared theta,

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but the number of photons is the amount of energy that gets through. Right. So it should be the intensity of the light goes like cos squared teacher.

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And quantum mechanics recovers our classical result.

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We can go further than that because we know that if we think about circular polarisation.

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So we know that classically. We can write the electric field of a circularly polarised radiation.

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So and so in plain polarised radiation, the electric field just oscillates up and down some definite direction.

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In circular polarisation at a given place, the electric field always has the same value and it rotates in its direction.

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So now it's pointing in the x axis and it is pointing in the y axis,

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nice pointing the minus x axis, etc. and it can go round clockwise or anticlockwise, etc.

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How do we write that? How do we write that classically? Well, we can write that.

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It's that it's in order to have a route to air.

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And then I would write the real part of the neatest way to write it is the real part of.

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The. X plus i e y times e to the i omega t and that's all inside this real operator.

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Let's think about that for a moment, because what does that give me?

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This X meets that cost plus I sign.

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So we find when this read operator works and we're looking at x times cos omega t and this I e y meets cos omega t plus I sign omega t so this, this,

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this eye and the eye that's sitting inside here make the real part of this minus sign omega t

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so this is looking like x cos omega t minus e y he's a unit vectors sign scientific a kitty.

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And so that's what this is. That's what we get from this notation.

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So this indeed is a is a is a circularly polarised beam.

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The mod square of this electric field is is is going to be in short squared

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over two and it's in fact right hand polarised in the complex in the plane.

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It's going to go around that away because Y is going to start going to become negative first the component because of this minus sign.

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Right. And similarly,

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if we wrote so this so let's call that E plus for know e subscript plus for the electric field associated with the right hand circular polarised beam.

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Correspondingly, we would have e minus four left hand.

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So that can be polarised. Joanie would be this. We get the we get a change in the sense of rotation just by changing that plus II to a minus side.

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These are check. That's true. So this is left hand polarised.

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How would we do this quantum mechanically? What we would do is we would say we would say that there's a state.

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Plus, which is equal to the state that has this electric vector in the X direction,

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plus times the state which has this electric vector in the Y direction and doesn't get through the pedal.

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Right. And this does get through the Polaroid. And we would say so this would be a state of the right hand polarised state of our

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photon is a linear combination of when I should have a one of a root two outside here.

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That's that too, basically. So so a state of circular polarisation of a photon is a linear combination of two plain polarised

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states and similarly we would have that minus is equal to the left hand polarised state would be.

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And we will be able to make statements like if we want a kind of statement we could make is we could add these two equations.

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And we would discover that being polarised in the X direction is one over two of being right hand polarised plus being left hand polarised.

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And this is also a result that we have in classical physics that if you have a plain polarised beam,

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you can consider it to be a linear superposition of,

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if you like, an interference pattern, whatever, between two circularly polarised beams of opposite senses of polarisation.

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But there's a different but this has a different meaning sort of emotionally, right?

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This is saying that a particular state of one photon, of a particular photon is this linear superposition of its two other possible states.

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Something else that you learn from this. I mean, another thing that should be pointed out is that think in classical physics we were using,

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I was using I hear it up there as a sort of handy way to reduce algebra, etc. There was a real operator sitting in front of it.

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The electric field was totally real, and then the appearance of the square root of minus one was merely as an as a shorthand,

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as a trick, as a device for compressing the algebra in the quantum mechanical case.

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This I is is I there's no real operator.

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There's no nonsense with that. This is inherently a complex animal.

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Now maybe it's time to move cross.

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Let's say a little bit about measurement. We've already encountered these ideas, really.

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But let's let me take you back to what we did yesterday with the energy representation.

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What I said was, look, supposing I rise up PSI in terms of some basis vectors.

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I because we had we had agreed that the quantum state of a system, a cat was an inhabitant of a vector space.

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Vector spaces have bases. Therefore, any cat can be written as a linear combination of basis vectors.

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Supposing these happen to be physically the amplitudes.

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To measure a particular value of the energy, say I.

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Then I hoped I persuaded you that the physical meaning of this either basis factor is the state in which you are certain to measure eei.

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Because. Because. If. If abassi.

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Is is the state in which we are certain to measure this energy.

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Then what does that mean? It means that a I is one, an AJ and every other a has to be nothing AJ not equal to I.

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And so we can look into this expression here under those circumstances,

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under those circumstances of, say, on the left here becomes II, the sum collapses just to I.

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And that tells us that I is actually in the state of which you are certain to measure, know.

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So that's how we understood the meaning of these things had. Now suppose that website is some general thing.

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It's some general stage. In other words, loads of these eyes are nonzero.

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So it's some superposition, linear combination of a non-negligible number of these states, a well-defined energy.

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So suppose initially.

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That aside, it's not a state of well-defined energy.

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It is a sum a i. E i.

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With lots of. Non-zero.

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I. Fine.

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Now, suppose we measure the energy. If we measure the energy according to our conception?

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Well, obviously, if we measure the energy, we are going to find one of the allowed values, one of the values in the spectrum of the energy.

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We are going to come up with one of these I's, shall we call it E k.

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So we do a measurement. So we measure.

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E and find it k.

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Having found E.K. We know what the energy is. We know it's weak.

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Therefore, we know the state of our system. So now Asi equals e k.

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So after we've made the measurement of size different from the from the cap than it was before we made the measurement,

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it's changed into this, which is just one of the terms that occurred in this series.

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So. So this some run over many of these I's and one of the I's was K.

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It just happened when we made the measurement. Bingo. This is the one that popped out.

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But having made the measurement, we know what the energy is. It's EAC, so the system is definitely in the state EAC.

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So the original wave function is of state.

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Quantum state is changed into a different quantum state.

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On making the measurement and this different quantum state looks simpler than that one.

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And what we what people conventionally say is that this quantum state is a result of our measurements, has collapsed into this quantum state.

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So this is the collapse. Of the quantum state.

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Traditionally known as the collapse of the wave function. We haven't yet met wave functions.

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But it's the same it's the same phenomenon. Now, it's an extremely interesting question.

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What's really happening? This is a fundamental, absolutely non-negotiable piece of this theory.

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The matters discussed rather more in Chapter six of the book and at some point, say, in the vacation, I would urge you to read that.

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And you will find that it is. It's.

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It's. This piece of the theory is fundamentally unsatisfactory.

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It's clearly not right, but nobody knows how.

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There are various proposals, including many worlds and all sorts of things for fixing it, but none of them really.

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There is no known satisfactory fix. There is no consensus, there is no really persuasive fix.

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Consequently, different people say, Well, I think the fix is probably something like this. Somebody else is to fix it.

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Something else like this. The fundamental principles that I think everyone will agree on is a it's non-negotiable.

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It's absolutely essential for the working of the theory that we do some such collapse to that.

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When you make a measurement, there are logically there are two possibilities.

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Logically, it's just a thought process. Right? Okay.

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I was I wrote that down because frankly, I didn't know what the energy was.

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So so that covered my bases. And, you know, it was probabilistic.

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There were many possible values of the energy, etcetera that were.

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And I stuck in some amplitudes to reflect my, my uncertainty.

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And having made a measurement, I discovered what the energy was.

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And so it's this now everything's okay. We, we've discovered something.

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So I've updated my information and the, and the state vector is merely reflecting my improved information is a subjective change, not a real change.

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That interpretation proves to be untenable.

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There really is a change. It's there.

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At the moment we are operating chapter six.

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Only Chapter six introduces an apparatus that deals for muddle and uncertainty, which is kind of worrying because in real life,

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in real physics, there's always masses of of of genuine uncertainty and genuine muddle.

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But we are not we are operating in an ideal world at the moment, in which there is total clarity,

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there is complete information, there is nothing left to chance beyond what is in inherent.

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I mean, so this is so so this is a completely well-defined state of the system.

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It changes into some other completely well-defined state of system. It actually objectively changes.

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And here we have a crucial we have a crucial thing that is being added in quantum mechanics to classical physics,

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which is the concept that when you make a measurement, you disturb the system that you're measuring.

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I think this is totally reasonable. It's it's obviously an abstraction that classical physics makes that you can that

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you can make measuring instruments of arbitrary delicacy so that you can have these.

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So when a measuring instrument interacts with the system, the measuring instrument in classical physics is affected.

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You know, the needle moves overall, light glows or whatever, but the system carries on blithely, you know, without without being changed in any way.

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It's clear there's action and reaction. If the instrument is affected, the system is affected.

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And since we're concerned with systems, quantum mechanics is about systems which are very small.

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It's very natural that the impact on the system should be kind of substantial.

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So it's totally reasonable that the that we should be working with the theory where every measurement is,

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is associated with the disturbance of the system and leaves the system in a configuration different from the one that it found it in.

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So that's not the problem. The problem is that the theory doesn't describe the process of getting from here to here.

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But but that's a topic which I can't discuss at this stage or indeed in this course.

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It's you can find something about it in chapter six.

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It's all highly of syllabus. I want, however, to point out something else, which is that we we started with a basis up there, remember,

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we started with AI and the mathematicians already taught us to associate with AI the cat

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AI a broader AI such that j loops j ai equals Delta II j So in our physical example,

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this maps into e j e i equals delta i.

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J. So this is this this was just mathematics. But it has it has a deep physical meaning as follows.

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I think I made the point yesterday that if you that if you want to know what a K is, you the way to find it is to do e k ci.

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That's broadly speaking, why we introduced these bras.

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We introduced these bras because we wanted out of an object like website to extract the amplitude for something to happen.

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Because, you know, amplitudes are the things whose modes square make predictions.

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And we, you know, that's what we take down to the lab to test against nature.

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So. So let's ask ourselves in this context, let's look at this formula.

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This is the amplitude to find energy. K If the system is in the state of PSI.

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So what's this? This is the amplitude to find e j if the system is in the state e i Well, if the energy is e i it can't be e j can it?

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If j is different from my. So the reason this thing vanishes when I is not equal to J is because it reflects the exclusive well.

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It reflects the fact that if your energy is e i it's the i it's not e j.

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So this, this, this all functionality condition. With a logical necessity.

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The mathematician has given it to us, but we need it for physical reasons.

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We need and its associated with we all because it's a requirement of our fundamental principle.

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This gives us the aptitude for making.

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So of the details they cover at this point is is suppose we've got a sci fi is able to form a high quality on some basis.

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I like the energy space, Michael. Okay.

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I suppose we have some other thing. We have some other quantum state, which is the J.

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Yeah. So these these two states are two different states because they have different they're associated with different attitudes.

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This is associated with a set of amplitudes, i.e., numerical values II and this state is associated with numerical amplitudes.

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B i b j whatever. And let's calculate the number phi assign.

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So we have to take the complex. We have to. But we have to make the Brahe out of that and use our rules that we introduced yesterday.

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So this is the sum j of b j complex conjugate.

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J Times the sum a i.

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I. But when I'm image j we get a Delta ii j which means this.

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And then when we conduct the sum over I, we get nothing.

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Except there's only one term that contributes because of the delta, right?

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J And that's when I equals J. So this becomes the sum b.j star AJ.

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So that tells us how to work out this complex number in terms of these quantum amplitudes.

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That turns out to be very useful.

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The thing I want to say at the moment is supposing I worked out the other thing I worked out fi, sorry, ABC onto fi instead of fi onto a sci fi,

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then everything would be the same here except that this will be in a star and

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that would be a b AI and we would be looking at the sum over j of a j star PJ.

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But this. Is the complex conjugative this by the rules of of complex because this is just a sum of complex numbers.

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Right. So we know what the rules of complex conjugation are. So this is the sum PJ Star, a J Star, which is Phi PSI Star.

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So this is an important equation to remember that sci fi is equal to Phi PSI complex conjugated.

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We'll need that many times. And.

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I think that's all we want there. Let's now introduce the next topic, which is operators.

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And that connection to observable things we can measure.

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So what we're interested in linear operators. What does that mean?

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I guess you probably know, but let me just write it down anyway. So if Q is a linear operator.

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Well, first of all, Q is an operator. What does that mean? That means it turns cats into cats.

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Give it a cat. It produces a cat. That is to say, fi, if I do Q The operator on ABC, the cat, I get another cat fi.

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Right. But that's what an operator is. It's something which turns cats into cats.

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What's a linear operator? If I have Q on a linear combination of alpha of psi plus beta, say of chi.

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So this is just to any old two cats. I take alpha times one and beta times the other because I know I'm allowed to do that.

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Well, what is that? That's equal to Alpha. Q Operating on up upside plus beta of.

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Q Operating on CHI.

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That's the linearity property. So we're only going to be interested in these linear operators.

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Now let me write down an operator.

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There's an operator. A very, very, very important operator.

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Like this. If we have a basis of tests, I.

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I can form this creature here. This is the cat.

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I somehow multiplying the bra.

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I just like that. The first thing I have to do is persuade you that this is an operator, right?

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So I say, let's consider this, and I need to persuade you that this is an operator.

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How do I do that? I show you how it operates. Right. So long as I if you know how this operates on any cat, then it's an operator.

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So let's have a look at this. Supposing I do. I am, Sy. What does that give me?

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It gives me the sum of. I, i, i.

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Sy Now, this is a complex number.

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It's even an interesting, complex number with emotional appeal because it's the quantum amplitude for something.

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But let's not worry ourselves about that at the moment. This is a complex number.

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This is a cat. So this is a linear combination of cats.

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Ergo, it is a cat. It is something we can call it Fi if we want to.

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All right. So that means that AI does turn up sci fi into some state fi.

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It is an operator. Now let us.

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Let us replace Abassi with.

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So let's replace this up sci with its expansion some A.I. so I can write this is the sum I on this is going to work on the sum over j of a j.

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J. So this is another way of writing up SCI.

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We've done it time and time again. Now this AI is going to meet that J and produce a Delta II j.

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When I do this, some over every term will vanish, except the term where j equals I.

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And the. And then when J does equal, I will have I on I, which is one.

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So this is equal to the sum i.

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I which is a sign.

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So I. This operator, this thing here is not only an operator, it's the identity operator.

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Because it turns upside, any upside gets turned back into itself.

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So we have that this thing here is the identity operator.

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And I've told you nothing about what these things here are, except they form a basis or a complete set of cards.

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And we use this representation of AI sometimes called a resolution of the identity.

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It's not a phrase, an expression I will use, but we use this representation of the identity operator time and time and time again.

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It's tremendously valuable. Now let's introduce a sexier operator, in fact, the most important operator in the universe.

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We're going to introduce H, which is by definition the some e i e i e ii.

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So these are the states of well-defined energy,

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and the numbers II are the possible energies that the spectrum of the energy operator, this operator here is call the Hamiltonian.

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After William Rowan Hamilton, who lived in the first half of the 19th century and introduced the classical analogue of this.

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And I think it's I hope it's clear from what I did above that this is an operator.

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Let's just say if we if we do age sci, we will get this stuff.

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Times E upside. This is a complex number which multiplies this real number times some cats.

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So we will get back a cat and it's obviously an operator associated with the energy and the general scheme is going to be forever.

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With everything that we can measure. We're going to associate an operator and we're going to do it in just this way.

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But let's just focus on this particular one for a moment, because it is the most important operator in quantum mechanics.

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And let's work. Let's see one thing that we can do with this. Supposing we work out a possi h abc.

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So what is this? This is a number. A complex number.

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Why? Because h operating on up side makes some state, shall we call it fi and ABC.

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The bra working on fi produces a number.

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So we can see that. We can say straight off that this is some complex number.

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Let's find out which complex number by putting in for ABC its expansion some a i e ii.

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So what we're going to do now is replace both of these by their expansions.

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So on the left here, I'm going to have a j star e e j, so that is ci the bra.

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Then I have h and then I have.

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E.J. Sorry. Then I have the some a i d i.

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An ancient self. Oh dear. This is getting complicated. Is the sum over k of e.

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K. K. Sorry. Okay.

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Okay. So every term in this expression here has been expanded in terms of the basis states,

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the states of well-defined energy states where measurement of energy is certain to yield a particular result.

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Now, what happens with summing over every every everything j is being summed over, eyes being summed over and case summed over.

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This e k oops. Yes, right.

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Sorry. Let's, let's, let's work on this. EAC is going to.

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This is a, this EAC is a linear function on this.

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So this passes through the I by the linearity of this function and meets this and produces me a delta k i.

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So when I sum over I I get nothing except when I is k.

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So that is going to this sum is going to collapse. And in the next line we're going to be looking at the sum over j of a j star e j oops.

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Which way it's pointing is pointing this way sum over k e k e k and the action here is that is that this sum of I is going to make that into an arc.

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So that's looking this way and that is an arc.

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Because of the all fog analogy, that and that. And now we repeat this trick.

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We say when we do this, e j is going to pass through this by linearity and etcetera,

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meet that and produce a delta g k so you will get nothing on this sum except when J is equal to K.

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So this is going to become the sum over K of E k.

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This is this a style. The J is going to be the only term that's going to survive.

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When this meets, this is when J equals K. So this is going to be coming a k star.

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This A.K. Star is going to meet with that a k to produce a k mod squared.

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But a k mod squared is the probability of getting this energy.

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So this is equal to the sum of peak.

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The probability of getting e k times the value e k in other words, is equal to the expectation value of the energy.

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So that's one reason why these operators why operators associated with observables in this way are so useful.

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If you want to know your state is upside and you want to know what the expectation value of the energy is.

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You take h the operator associated with energy and you squeeze it between the bra upside and the cat upside.

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So we. Can you give me any observable.

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Call it. Q For that observable, we've we have agreed there will be a spectrum, so there will be numbers.

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Q II the spectrum, the possible values that the measurement can return, and there will be a complete set of states.

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Q I mean, these are the states for which the results.

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Of observing Q. Certain.

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What can I do? I form the operator. Q We might give it a hand just to stress that this is an operator, which is a mathematical object, whereas.

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Q is a sort of concept like momentum or, or angular momentum or position or something.

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We got a natural operator which is defined to be the summer of a K of CUC, Chuck.

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Q Okay. And by exactly the logic up there, we will find that the expectation value of the observable Q is going to be upside.

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Q Upside. So that's just repeating what I've done for the energy operator.

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The Hamiltonian making the point that it's going to carry through for any observable.

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Now there's more than we can do. More than that we can now ask ourselves, okay, let's look at this.

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What is Q operating on? Q I mean, what does.

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Q Is an operator? What does it do to one of the special states associated with with that observable?

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Well, by definition, this is the sum over K of tuk tuk.

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Q Okay. Q I. Right.

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So this is this is merely the definition of the operator. Q There is mobile operating on this is going to produce a Delta K II.

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So when we do this sum of a K, we get nothing except when K is equal to Y.

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So what we get is only one term in this series survives.

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And the answer is it's Q IQ II. So what Q does to this state of well defined Q of the worldwide value of the observable is it

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turns it it it makes them a scale model of what we what we started with with the scaling factor.

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Q II So in the mathematical language, which I guess you've met, this says that that.

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Q I. It's an iron cat.

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Of Q you have met that right you've you've met eigen cats eigenvectors whatever of operators and the eigenvalue so that the states have well-defined

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observable which are really the primitive physical thing all turn out to be eigen states of this operator that we've introduced and the eigenvalues.

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And the eigenvalues are the possible values of the elements of the spectrum, the possible numbers you can get if you measure the observable Q.

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Well, that probably is the right moment to stop.