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Raising and lowering operators of orbital angular momentum?

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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
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Profile image of Vikas TU
6 Years ago
These are called the lowering and raising operators, respectively, for reasons that will soon become apparent. Unlike x and p and all the other operators we've worked with so far, the lowering and raising operators are not Hermitian and do not repre- sent any observable quantities