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Niles
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Homework Statement
Hi all.
The expectation value for S_x (spin in x-direction) is:
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\left\langle {S_x } \right\rangle = \left\langle {\phi |S_x \phi } \right\rangle = \phi ^\dag S_x \phi
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where \phi is the state and \phi^"sword" is the hermite conjugate.
My question is: I thought that when finding expectation values, you are supposed to complex conjugate the left part of the inner product, not hermite conjugate?