Functional analysis MOC

Dirac orthonormality

A set of kets |๐‘“๐‘โŸฉ where ๐‘ โˆˆโ„ is said to be Dirac orthonormal1 iff #m/def/anal/fun

โŸจ๐‘“๐‘โ€ฒ|๐‘“๐‘โ€ฒโŸฉ=๐›ฟ(๐‘โˆ’๐‘)

where ๐›ฟ is the Dirac delta, and in addition complete iff

โˆซ๐ท|๐‘“๐‘งโŸฉโŸจ๐‘“๐‘ง|๐‘‘๐‘ง=๐ˆ


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Footnotes

  1. 2018. Introduction to quantum mechanics, ยง3.3.2, p. 100 โ†ฉ