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Modern Quantum Mechanics

(2nd Edition)

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4627-2-13E SA: 1804978

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Consider a one dimensional simple harmonic oscillator

And

(a) The values of x and p in terms of the raising and lowering operators:

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(b) We have

Replace, then we get

As there is no time dependence of x and p explicitly,

……… (1)

Now consider
We have standard results

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Using these values we get

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Substituting the values of in equation (1) we get

For stationary states all expectation values are time independent

So

And hence we get

……… (2)

This is called virial theorem.

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For harmonic oscillator

Hence

Upon substitution in equation (2) we get

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We have

While

Here

Hence we proved

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