Question #166249

If a particle in the harmonic oscillator potential is initially in a momentum eigenstate can the expectation value of an operator then be time dependent? I get that i doesen't happen if the particle is initially in an energy eigenstate but that it may happen if it is initially in a superposition of different energy eigenstates.


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2021-02-24T12:46:45-0500

We write time–independent Schrodinger equation as H\mathcal{H} | ψ\psi  >=>= EnψE_n\mid\psi to this point. Since the Hamiltonian is the energy operator, the eigenvalues are necessarily energy eigenvalues. The state vector is assumed to be a linear combination of all energy eigenvectors. If we specifically measure the eigenvalue En , then the state vector is necessarily the associated eigenvector which can be written En>\mid E_n> . The time–independent Schrodinger equation written as HEn>=EnEn>\mathcal{H}\mid E_n>=E_n\mid E_n> is likely a better expression for the development.. 


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