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3.1 The correspondence principle

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The correspondence principle

The Hamilton formalisms of classical mechanics defines the energy of a system by the Hamilton function H (~ pi , ~ri )

(3.1)

In Quantum mechanics this function is replaced by an operator, the Hamilton operator H (~pi ,~ri )

(3.2)

The correspondence principle allows to deduce the Hamilton operator from the Hamilton function just by replacing all momentum and space vectors by their corresponding operators. • The resulting operator must be Hermitian which is not trivial. • Often there exist several ways to get a symmetric operator (The Hamilton operator sometimes is not uniformly defined) • For some systems the correct Hamiltonian is not known exactly. The deduced operator is set equal to the time evolution operator in Eq. (2.1), leading to The time dependent Schr¨ odinger equation ~ ∂ ψ(t, ~ri ) = H(~pi ,~ri )ψ(t, ~ri ) i ∂t

(3.3)

(This is often a representation in time and space since the Schr¨odinger equation is deduced from a classical point of view) If the Hamilton operator is not explicitly time dependent, the Eigenvector system of Eq. (2.2) allows to calculate The time independent Schr¨ odinger equation ~ωψ0 (~ri ) = Eψ0 (~ri ) = H(~pi ,~ri )ψ0 (~ri )

(3.4)

(For solving the Schr¨ odinger equation often an abstract representation is used) The calculated energy Eigenvalues En and Eigenvectors fn define how the quantum mechanical system evolves in time: Let for t = 0 the system be in a state X ψ(0, ~ri ) = cn fn . (3.5) n

We will find a time evolution of the state ψ(t, ~ri ) =

X

cn fn e

iEn t ~

.

(3.6)

n

The fraction of each Eigenvector to the sum of all states will change generally as a function of time. ⇒ The state of a system will normally change in time. REMARKS: • In physics the formalism of energy is much more fundamental than the formalism of using forces. • All forces which apply to an electron may be included into the Hamiltonian by just adding the corresponding energy term. This allows to solve solid state physics by only one equation completely and correctly. But this equation is much to complex to use it as a starting point for any calculation. The ”‘art”’ of solid state physics is to restrict the Hamiltonian to the necessary energy terms, in order to get computable equations (”Everything” means ”Nothing”).

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