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I am looking at the derivation of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle presented here: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~jemoore/p137a/uncertaintynotes.pdf
and am confused about line (21)...
I do not understand why [itex]AB[/itex] and [itex]BA[/itex] are complex conjugates of each other... (I'm still in high school so I don't really have much of a background in the algebra of operators).
If I assume what is written in line 21, I think I get the following lines- if [itex]AB[/itex] and [itex]BA[/itex] are complex conjugates, then [itex]|\langle AB-BA \rangle |^2 = |2\langle AB\rangle |^2 = 4|\langle AB\rangle |^2[/itex] I think... The expected value signs are what is confusing me most...
Thank you for any help!
and am confused about line (21)...
I do not understand why [itex]AB[/itex] and [itex]BA[/itex] are complex conjugates of each other... (I'm still in high school so I don't really have much of a background in the algebra of operators).
If I assume what is written in line 21, I think I get the following lines- if [itex]AB[/itex] and [itex]BA[/itex] are complex conjugates, then [itex]|\langle AB-BA \rangle |^2 = |2\langle AB\rangle |^2 = 4|\langle AB\rangle |^2[/itex] I think... The expected value signs are what is confusing me most...
Thank you for any help!
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