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RohanJ
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- Product of two projection operators
In Principles of Quantum mechanics by shankar it is written that
Pi is a projection operator and Pi=|i> <i|.
Then PiPj= |i> <i|j> <j|= (δij)Pj.
I don't understand how we got from the second result toh the third one mathematically.I know that the inner product of i and j can be written as δijbut how do we get to Pj in the final result from the second result?
Pi is a projection operator and Pi=|i> <i|.
Then PiPj= |i> <i|j> <j|= (δij)Pj.
I don't understand how we got from the second result toh the third one mathematically.I know that the inner product of i and j can be written as δijbut how do we get to Pj in the final result from the second result?