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By reasoning from Ehrenfest's theorem alone, show that for the case of the simple harmonic oscillator, regardless of the initial value of the wavefunction, the average expectation of position and momentum always undergo simple harmonic motion:

for some fixed amplitude and phase .



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Thu Oct 12 17:12:55 EDT 1995