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Note however that many other bases are possible, and that the physics of a quantum system do not depend on the basis that we choose.
The bra vectors associated to these ket vectors will be given by
$$ |{\Psi}\rangle= \left( \begin{array}{c}3 \\ -2i \end{array} \right) \, , \qquad
\langle{\Psi}|=\left( 3, 2i \right) $$
\langle{\Psi}|=\left( 3, 2i \right) \, ,$$
$$ |{\Psi}\rangle = \left( \begin{array}{c}i \\ -4 \end{array} \right) \, , \qquad
\langle{\Psi}|=\left( -i , -4 \right) $$
\langle{\Psi}|=\left( -i , -4 \right)\, , $$
$$|{\Psi}\rangle= \left( \begin{array}{c}2 \\ 5 \end{array} \right) \, , \qquad
$$ \langle{\Psi}|= \left( 2 , 5 \right)$$
\langle{\Psi}|= \left( 2 , 5 \right) \, .$$
We also know how we can evaluate the inner product between any two state vectors belonging to this Hilbert space. If we have two state vectors given by
$$
......@@ -210,10 +210,10 @@ and the associated probability will be given by
$$
|\langle \psi|\phi\rangle|^2 = \frac{1}{2}
$$
meaning that if I measure the state $\ket{\phi}$, I will have a 50\% probability
of finding it in the state $\ket{\psi}$. Recall that probabilities must always be smaller than 1 to make physicalsense. Note also that I am using normalised vectors, you can check yourselves that
meaning that if I measure the state $| \phi \rangle $, I will have a 50\% probability
of finding it in the state $| \psi \rangle$. Recall that probabilities must always be smaller than 1 to make physicalsense. Note also that I am using normalised vectors, you can check yourselves that
$$
\braket{\psi}{\psi} = \braket{\phi}{\phi} = 1 \, .
\langle \psi |\psi \rangle = \langle \phi | \phi\rangle = 1 \, .
$$
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