Part 1 of a series exploring the quantum mechanics of guinea pigs, with a short digression into creation and annihilation operators and their uses in guinea pig quantum mechanics.
The spot where this lost me a tad is when you introduced a_hat_dagger. An explanation of that meant would have been helpful. I was thinking of them as separate (dagger == jump up a state, hat == jump down a state). But it wasn’t explained exactly what it means for the a vector to have both symbols so I was left to guess. Any help with what they mean?
The spot where this lost me a tad is when you introduced a_hat_dagger. An explanation of that meant would have been helpful. I was thinking of them as separate (dagger == jump up a state, hat == jump down a state). But it wasn’t explained exactly what it means for the a vector to have both symbols so I was left to guess. Any help with what they mean?