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The Commutator of M+ with Hop

Remembering that

\begin{displaymath}H_{op} = \frac{p^2}{2m} = - \frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2}
\end{displaymath}

after some effort, one has

 \begin{displaymath}[H,M^+]=
- \frac{\hbar^2}{2m} \left (
- \left (\frac{\pi}{L}...
...{L} \right )\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial x^2}
\end{displaymath} (5)




1998-05-13