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STEVEN G. JOHNSON: Let me stop the recording.
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ALAN EDELMAN: OK.
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Otherwise, see you on Friday, same room, 11:00 AM.
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PROFESSOR: All right.
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So let's get now the state n1.
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So I want to make a general remark.
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You have an equation like this.
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And you want to solve it.
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It's a vector equation.
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Operator and a vector equal number and a vector--
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a more operator and a vector.
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To make sure you have solved it, when
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you have a vector equation you must make sure
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that every component-- you can write a vector equation
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in the form vector equals zero.
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And then you must make sure that every component of the vector
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is zero.
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What we did here is we found what
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happens when I look at the component along n0.
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And I figure out that, whoops, this equation,
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when I look at the component along n0,
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tells me what the energy is.
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So the rest of the information of this equation
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arises when I look at it along the components
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on the other states, not n0 but the k states that we introduced
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from the beginning, the k0's that run from one to infinity.
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So what we're going to do is take
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that original-- this second equation
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and form k0 h0 minus Em0 m1 1 is equal to k0 Em1 minus delta H
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n0.
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So I now took the same equation and I put it in a problem
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with k0.
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And I say, look, k will be different
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from n, because when we put k equal
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to n that already we've done.
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And we've learned all about it.
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And, in fact, n1 didn't appear.
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The state that we wanted didn't appear at all.
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So now we do this with arbitrary k.
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And we need to figure out what this gives.
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So you have to look at these things
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and try to remember a little of the definitions with both.
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So h0, we know what it gives from k0.
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It gives you a number, the energy of that state.
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So this is another number.
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So that's great.
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This simplifies this to ek0 minus En0
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times the overlap of k0 with n1.
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That's the left hand side.
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How about the right hand side?
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All right.
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Let's see what this is.
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First term.
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The En1 is a number, so I must ask
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myself is what happens when k0 meets n0?
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Well, those are our original orthonormal states.
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And we said that k is different from n.
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So this term is 0 with an En1.
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This is a number.
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And these two states are orthogonal.
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So this term gives you a 0, not because this number is 0,
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but because the overlap is 0.
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And I get here minus k0 delta H n0.
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And it's good notation to call this,
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to save writing, delta Hkn It's a good name for it.
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It's the matrix k--
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the kn-th element of the matrix delta H. And this is a number
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so I can solve k0 n1 is equal to minus delta
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Hkn divided by Ek0 minus En0.
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And this is true for every k different for n.
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And here we find, for the first time, our energy denominators.
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These energy denominators are the things
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that are going to make life interesting and difficult.
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And it answers the question already
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that if you had degenerate states,
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there would be some k state that have
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the same energy as this one.
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And this blows up.
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And this is unsolvable for this component.
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So you start getting difficulties
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if you have degeneracies.
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As long as every k state--
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all the other states of the spectrum
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have different energy from En, nevermind if the other states
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are degenerate.
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They're not degenerate with the state you care.
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You care just about one state now, the n-th state.
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And if that's nondegenerate, all these denominators are non-zero
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and you're OK.
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So here is the solution for this thing.
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Now I can write the expressions for the state and the energy.
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So let me do it.
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So I have this n1 like that.
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Now you can say the following.
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Let me do this very deliberately first.
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n1 is equal to the sum over all k of k0 k0 n1.
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This is the resolution of the identity formula.
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That's the unit operator.
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You can always do that.
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And now you know that the state n1 is orthogonal to n0.