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The goal of this chapter is to connect the fundamental quantum-mechanical concepts to representations that a computer can understand. We develop the tools that will be used in the remaining chapters to express and solve interesting quantum-mechanical problems.
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The following calculations can be extended to situations where the basis is not ortho-normal. For the scope of this book we are however not interested in this complication.
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Schmied, R. (2020). Quantum Mechanics: States and Operators. In: Using Mathematica for Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7588-0_2
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