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Raising and lowering properties

  Using the properties you showed in 2.1, show that if is a pure state of energy of energy E, then 1) is a pure state of energy and 2) is a pure state of energy .

Background: This energy ``raising'' and ``lowering'' properties of the and operators explains the origin of their names.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Tue Apr 30 08:11:46 EDT 1996