Position operator ↩

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created: 2021-12-11 07:00:14
modified: 2022-01-10 04:13:04

In quantum mechanics we define the position operator as an unbounded operator on the Hilbert space. It is an observable.

When we represent the state as a wave function in coordinate space, , the operator is defined by:

And its expectation value is: