Momentum (operator)

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In quantum mechanics, the observable quantities are represented not by variables, as in classical mechanics, but by linear hermitian operators. Typically, the canonical substitution for the momentum operator in a one-dimensional position space (or along the x-component of a higher dimensional position space) is given as:

p \to -i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial x}

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