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Today quantum mechanics forms an important part of our understanding of physical phenomena. Its consequences both at the fundamental and practical levels have intrigued mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and even philosophers for the past seven decades. A quantum system is usually described in terms of certain vector spaces and linear operators acting on these spaces. The vector spaces and their operators represent the states and the observables of the quantum system. The dynamics of a quantum system is determined by dynamical differential equations, the Schrödinger or the Heisenberg equations, which involve a linear operator called the Hamiltonian.
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Bohm, A., Mostafazadeh, A., Koizumi, H., Niu, Q., Zwanziger, J. (2003). Introduction. In: The Geometric Phase in Quantum Systems. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10333-3_1
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