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Schrödinger picture

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Background
The time evolution operator
Definition Properties Differential equation for time evolution operator
Summary comparison of evolution in all pictures
See also
Notes
References

In physics, the Schrödinger picture (also called the Schrödinger representation^[1]) is a formulation of quantum mechanics in which the state vectors evolve in time, but the operators (observables and others) are constant with respect to time.^[2]^[3] This differs from the Heisenberg picture which keeps the states constant while the observables evolve in time, and from the interaction picture in which both the states and the observables evolve in time. The Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures are related as active and passive transformations and commutation relations between operators are preserved in the passage between the two pictures.

In the Schrödinger picture, the state of a system evolves with time. The evolution for a closed quantum system is brought about by a unitary operator, the time evolution operator. For time evolution from a state vector at time {{mvar|t}}₀ to a state vector at time {{mvar|t}}, the time-evolution operator is commonly written , and one has

In the case where the Hamiltonian of the system does not vary with time, the time-evolution operator has the form

where the exponent is evaluated via its Taylor series.

The Schrödinger picture is useful when dealing with a time-independent Hamiltonian {{mvar|H}}; that is, .

Background

In elementary quantum mechanics, the state of a quantum-mechanical system is represented by a complex-valued wavefunction {{math|ψ(x, t)}}. More abstractly, the state may be represented as a state vector, or ket, . This ket is an element of a Hilbert space, a vector space containing all possible states of the system. A quantum-mechanical operator is a function which takes a ket and returns some other ket .

The differences between the Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures of quantum mechanics revolve around how to deal with systems that evolve in time: the time-dependent nature of the system must be carried by some combination of the state vectors and the operators. For example, a quantum harmonic oscillator may be in a state for which the expectation value of the momentum, , oscillates sinusoidally in time. One can then ask whether this sinusoidal oscillation should be reflected in the state vector , the momentum operator , or both. All three of these choices are valid; the first gives the Schrödinger picture, the second the Heisenberg picture, and the third the interaction picture.

The time evolution operator

Definition

The time-evolution operator U(t, t₀) is defined as the operator which acts on the ket at time t₀ to produce the ket at some other time t:

For bras, we instead have

Properties

Unitarity

The time evolution operator must be unitary. This is because we demand that the norm of the state ket must not change with time. That is,

Therefore,

Identity

When t = t₀, U is the identity operator, since

Closure

Time evolution from t₀ to t may be viewed as a two-step time evolution, first from t₀ to an intermediate time t₁, and then from t₁ to the final time t. Therefore,

Differential equation for time evolution operator

We drop the t₀ index in the time evolution operator with the convention that {{nowrap|t₀ {{=}} 0}} and write it as U(t). The Schrödinger equation is

where H is the Hamiltonian. Now using the time-evolution operator U to write , we have

Since is a constant ket (the state ket at {{nowrap|t {{=}} 0}}), and since the above equation is true for any constant ket in the Hilbert space, the time evolution operator must obey the equation

If the Hamiltonian is independent of time, the solution to the above equation is^[4]

Since H is an operator, this exponential expression is to be evaluated via its Taylor series:

Therefore,

Note that is an arbitrary ket. However, if the initial ket is an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian, with eigenvalue E, we get:

Thus we see that the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian are stationary states: they only pick up an overall phase factor as they evolve with time.

If the Hamiltonian is dependent on time, but the Hamiltonians at different times commute, then the time evolution operator can be written as

If the Hamiltonian is dependent on time, but the Hamiltonians at different times do not commute, then the time evolution operator can be written as

where T is time-ordering operator, which is sometimes known as the Dyson series, after Freeman Dyson.

The alternative to the Schrödinger picture is to switch to a rotating reference frame, which is itself being rotated by the propagator. Since the undulatory rotation is now being assumed by the reference frame itself, an undisturbed state function appears to be truly static. This is the Heisenberg picture.

Summary comparison of evolution in all pictures

For a time-independent Hamiltonian H_S,

Evolution	Picture
of:	Heisenberg	Interaction	Schrödinger
Ket state	constant
Observable			constant
Density matrix	constant

Notes

1. ^{{cite web|title=Schrödinger representation|url=http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Schr%C3%B6dinger_representation|publisher=Encyclopedia of Mathematics|accessdate=3 September 2013}}
2. ^{{cite book |title=McGraw Hill Encyclopaedia of Physics |first1=C.B. |last1= Parker|edition=2nd|publisher=McGraw Hill|pages=786, 1261|year=1994|isbn=0-07-051400-3}}
3. ^{{cite book |author1=Y. Peleg |author2=R. Pnini |author3=E. Zaarur |author4=E. Hecht |title=Quantum mechanics|edition=2nd|publisher=McGraw Hill|series=Schuam's outline series|year=2010|isbn=978-0-07-162358-2|page=70}}
4. ^Here we use the fact that at {{nowrap|t {{=}} 0}}, U(t) must reduce to the identity operator.

References

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Albert Messiah, 1966. Quantum Mechanics (Vol. I), English translation from French by G. M. Temmer. North Holland, John Wiley & Sons.
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