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Revision as of 14:57, 20 August 2016
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This is for producing templates {{bra}}, {{ket}}, and {{bra-ket}}. It can also produce quantum state vectors in bra–ket notation, using wikicode, ideally with {{math}}, as an alternative to LaTeX in <math> mode, but using this template ( {{braket}} ) is more clumsy than the simpler and more directly applicable {{bra}}, {{ket}}, and {{bra-ket}}.
Application
There are three parameters, use as many as needed in this order:
- Brackets: choose one of:
- bra (for a bra vector),
- ket (for a ket vector),
- bra-ket (for the inner product), or
- Symbol 1:
- if 1 is set to bra or ket: enter the first symbol for the bra or ket,
- if 1 is set to bra-ket: enter the symbol for the bra part of the inner product
- Symbol 2:
- if 1 is set to bra or ket: this parameter is not needed.
- if 1 is set to bra-ket: enter the symbol for the ket part of the inner product
If 1 is set to bra-ket, the symbols are entered in the order they are read, left to right. The symbols can of course be bold, italic, underlined, any unicode symbol, etc.
Examples
- Ket
A ket can be written: Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle, that is {{braket|ket|ψ}}.
Using {{math}}, a ket can be written: Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle, that is {{math|{{braket|ket|ψ}}}}.
- Bra
A bra can be written: Template:Tfm/dated⟨ψ| = Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle†, that is {{braket|bra|ψ}} = {{braket|ket|ψ}}<sup>†</sup>.
Using {{math}}, a bra can be written: Template:Tfm/dated⟨ψ| = Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle†, that is {{math|{{braket|bra|ψ}} {{=}} {{braket|ket|ψ}}<sup>†</sup>}}.
- Bra-ket
The inner product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle can be written: Template:Tfm/dated⟨ψ|ξTemplate:Rangle = Template:Tfm/dated⟨ξ|ψTemplate:Rangle†, that is {{braket|bra-ket|ψ|ξ}} = {{braket|bra-ket|ξ|ψ}}<sup>†</sup>.
Using {{math}}, the inner product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle can be written: Template:Tfm/dated⟨ψ|ξTemplate:Rangle = Template:Tfm/dated⟨ξ|ψTemplate:Rangle†, that is {{math|{{braket|bra-ket|ψ|ξ}} {{=}} {{braket|bra-ket|ξ|ψ}}<sup>†</sup>}}.
- Outer products
The outer product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle can be written: Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:RangleTemplate:Tfm/dated⟨ξ| = [[[:Template:Tfm/dated]]|ξTemplate:RangleTemplate:Tfm/dated⟨ψ|]†, that is {{braket|ket|ψ}}{{braket|bra|ξ}} = [{{braket|ket|ξ}}{{braket|bra|ψ}}]<sup>†</sup>.
Using {{math}}, the outer product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle can be written: Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:RangleTemplate:Tfm/dated⟨ξ| = [[[:Template:Tfm/dated]]|ξTemplate:RangleTemplate:Tfm/dated⟨ψ|]†, that is {{braket|ket|ψ}}{{braket|bra|ξ}} {{=}} [{{braket|ket|ξ}}{{braket|bra|ψ}}]<sup>†</sup>.
- Inner products including operators
The inner product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and ĤTemplate:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle is written using a bra and ket separately between the operator (there is no third parameter for the operator symbol):
- Template:Tfm/dated⟨ψ|ĤTemplate:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle = Template:Tfm/dated⟨ξ|Ĥ†Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle,
that is
{{braket|bra|ψ}}''Ĥ''{{braket|ket|ξ}} = {{braket|bra|ξ}}''Ĥ''<sup>†</sup>{{braket|ket|ψ}}.
Using {{math}}, the inner product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and ĤTemplate:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle is written using a bra and ket separately between the operator:
- Template:Tfm/dated⟨ψ|ĤTemplate:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle = Template:Tfm/dated⟨ξ|Ĥ†Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle,
that is
{{math|{{braket|bra|ψ}}''Ĥ''{{braket|ket|ξ}} {{=}} {{braket|bra|ξ}}''Ĥ''<sup>†</sup>{{braket|ket|ψ}}}}.
In wiki-markup rather than LaTeX:
- iħTemplate:SfracTemplate:Tfm/dated|Ψ(t)Template:Rangle = ĤTemplate:Tfm/dated|Ψ(t)Template:Rangle ↔ −iħTemplate:Tfm/dated⟨Ψ(t)|Template:Sfrac = Template:Tfm/dated⟨Ψ(t)|Ĥ†
that is,
{{math|''iħ''{{sfrac|''d''|''dt''}}{{braket|ket|Ψ(''t'')}} {{=}} ''Ĥ''{{braket|ket|Ψ(''t'')}} ↔ −''iħ''{{braket|bra|Ψ(''t'')}}{{sfrac|''d''|''dt''}} {{=}} {{braket|bra|Ψ(''t'')}}''Ĥ''<sup>†</sup>}}
The tensor product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle is written using the ket mode only (there is no paramter for tensor products):
- Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:RangleTemplate:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle ≡ Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle ⊗ Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle ≡ Template:Tfm/dated|ξ, ψTemplate:Rangle,
that is
{{braket|ket|ξ}}{{braket|ket|ψ}} ≡ {{braket|ket|ξ}} ⊗ {{braket|ket|ψ}} ≡ {{braket|ket|ξ, ψ}}.
Using {{math}}, the tensor product of the kets Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle and Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle is written using the ket mode only:
- Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:RangleTemplate:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle ≡ Template:Tfm/dated|ξTemplate:Rangle ⊗ Template:Tfm/dated|ψTemplate:Rangle ≡ Template:Tfm/dated|ξ, ψTemplate:Rangle,
that is
{{math|{{braket|ket|ξ}}{{braket|ket|ψ}} ≡ {{braket|ket|ξ}} ⊗ {{braket|ket|ψ}} ≡ {{braket|ket|ξ, ψ}}}}.
See also
- {{Angle bracket}}: surrounding angle brackets
- {{Langle}}, {{Rangle}}: single angle brackets
| The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Braket/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |