Few postulates of Quantum mechanics are stated below:
Postulate 1 (describes the state of quantum mechanical system): At a given time the state of quantum mechanical system is defined by specifying a ket
belonging to state space
.
Postulate 2 (description of physical quantity): Every measurable quantity A is described by an observable acting in the state space
.
Postulate 3 (Measurement of physical quantity): The only possible result of a measurement of a physical quantity A is one of the Eigen values of observable .
Postulate 4 (Principle of spectral decomposition) Statement 1 (Discrete non-degenerate spectrum): When a physical quantity A is measured on a quantum mechanical system in the normalized state , the probability
of obtaining the non degenerate Eigen values
of the observable
is
here
and
is normalized.
Postulate 4 Statement 2 (Discrete degenerate spectrum): When a physical quantity A is measured on a quantum mechanics system in the normalized state , the probability of obtaining the degenerate Eigen value
of the observable
is
where
and
is degeneracy of
.
Postulate 5 (Reduction of wave packet): If the measurement of a physical quantity A on a quantum mechanical system in the state , gives the result
, the state immediately after the measurement is given by the normalized projection of
onto the Eigen space associated with
that is $latex \frac{P_n|\psi>}{\sqrt{<\psi|P_n|\psi>}} $
Postulate 6 (Time evolution of quantum mechanical state): The time evolution of state vector is governed by the Schrodinger equation.
here is Hamiltonian of system.