Okay, I know that in quantum mechanics the quantum observable is obtained from the classical observable by the prescription
X→x,P→−iℏ∂∂x
in the position basis. Now my questions are:
What if x or p appears in the denominator in a classical expression?
How to promote this to a quantum expression? What would be the meaning of division by an operator?
My expression likely contains a mixture of x and p. For e.g., it could contain terms like px2 or xp(x2+a2)3/2.
- How to resolve products of non-commuting operators like x, p in a satisfactory way?
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