Thursday, 2 July 2015

quantum mechanics - Does every hermitian operator represent a measurable quantity?


In Quantum mechanics, observables are represented by hermitian operator. But does every hermitian operator represent a observable? If not , how do we know that whether a hermitian operator represent observable or not? What is the precise definition of the term "observable"?





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