quantum-mechanical operator

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quantum-mechanical operator [′kwän·təm mi′kan·ə·kəl ‚äp·ə‚rād·ər]

(quantum mechanics)

A linear, Hermitian operator associated with some physical quantity; for a physical system in any state, the expectation value of the physical quantity equals the integral over configuration space of ψ*(Aψ), whereAψ is the result of the operator acting on the wave function of the system, and ψ* is the complex conjugate of the wave function.

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