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So far we have mainly been concerned with the determination of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of observables and we have not yet faced what in quantum mechanics is a fundamental problem, i.e. the problem of determining how the states of a system evolve in time—which is equivalent, in classical mechanics, to solving the equations of motion.
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Picasso, L.E. (2016). Time Evolution. In: Lectures in Quantum Mechanics. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22632-3_9
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