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Tutorial 1
1. Verify for an antisymmetric spatial state under exchange of two particles that
1
A d
3
= x 1d 3 x 2
2
1
2
x 1, x 2 1
2
x 2 , x1 1
2
x 1, x 2 A 1
2
x 2 , x1 A
= d x 1d r2 x 1, x 2 x 1, x 2 A
3 3
P̂12x 1 P̂ 2 1
Ĥ m2 x̂12 2 x m2 x̂ 22
2m 2 2m 2
(b) Suppose the two particles interact with a potential energy of interaction
x1 x 2 a
V( x 1 x 2 ) V0
0
elsewhere
Argue what the effect will be on the energies that you determined in (a), that is,
whether the energy of each state moves up, moves down, or remains unchanged.
5. Show that the symmetrization and the anti-symmetrization operators are the
orthogonal projection operators, i.e. that
S 2 S, A 2 A, SA AS 0.