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Operators (25 pts total)

Background: In this problem you will consider a particle of mass m subjected to the potential of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator (SHO) of frequency , with Hamiltonian

Many general facts about the states of the SHO may be derived without knowing the states -- just by using operators.

In this problem you will will make use of the following two operators,

with defined as





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