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Representations (20 pts total)

Background: In this problem we will consider the physics of particles which remain bound to the well in Figure 1, which binds only two pure states of energy, and . The zero of energy is chosen so that the energies of these two states are and , respectively.

  
Figure 1: Potential Well Binding Two States

In addition to the energy E, we are told that there are two other physical observables for particles bound to the well, which we will call F and G. Measurements of these observables also always only produce the two values for particles bound in the well. The pure states associated with these values of F and G are given in terms of the pure states of energy in Table 1. Given what you have learned in 8.04, you are able to make predictions on the probability distribution for measurements on G given only information about the distributions for measurements of E and F!

  
Table 1: Table of pure states of the new observables F and G





Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Fri Apr 19 09:33:33 EDT 1996