Talk:Ladder operators
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Who wrote this? Not only is the spelling bad, but it's wrong! The ladder operators are the creation and annihilation operators. However, I may be wrong. Will someone who is certain please amend this page, or follow this comment up with why I'm wrong? Many thanks.
- The titles of Wikipedia articles are usually supposed to be in the singular, and, sure enough, Ladder operator redirects to Quantum harmonic oscillator, which seems to have a more mature discussion of the topic. I have changed Ladder operators to match. - RedWordSmith 01:20, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
Although I've never come across an official definition of ladder operators, I have found it standard to define them by their property of mapping between diferent eigenstates of the Hamiltonian. The definition on this page only applies to the oscillator. This page needs serious attention from someone who actually knows wht they are talking about
