Solution

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For a Hermitian operator , the operator exponential is a unitary operator, with . Differentiation and give
When , this is the first-order ordinary differential equation with . Multiplication by makes its derivative zero, proving
Equivalently, the commutator expansion for exponential conjugation has successive nested commutators , whose exponential series sums to this expression.

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