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Past exam of the quantum theory course of the University of Oxford 2021 3 b i Solution by
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In the ordered orthonormal basis , the Hamiltonian operator has matrixwhere is a Pauli matrix. Its symmetric and antisymmetric eigenvectors giveThe energy eigenstates are normalized and orthogonal; each energy eigenvalue is nondegenerate. Their full stationary states are and . Since they form an orthonormal basis, the general solution to the Time-dependent Schrödinger equation isFor a normalized quantum state, ; the constants are determined by its initial inner products with .
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