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authorPrefetch2021-02-20 14:55:33 +0100
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\end{aligned}
\]</span></p>
<p>In other words, in a periodic potential, the solutions are simply plane waves with a periodic modulation, known as <em>Bloch functions</em> or <em>Bloch states</em>.</p>
-<p>This is suprisingly easy to prove: if the Hamiltonian <span class="math inline">\(\hat{H}\)</span> is lattice-periodic, then it will commute with the unitary translation operator <span class="math inline">\(\hat{T}(\vec{a})\)</span>, i.e. <span class="math inline">\(\comm{\hat{H}}{\hat{T}(\vec{a})} = 0\)</span>. Therefore <span class="math inline">\(\hat{H}\)</span> and <span class="math inline">\(\hat{T}(\vec{a})\)</span> must share eigenstates <span class="math inline">\(\psi(\vec{r})\)</span>:</p>
+<p>This is suprisingly easy to prove: if the Hamiltonian <span class="math inline">\(\hat{H}\)</span> is lattice-periodic, then it will commute with the unitary translation operator <span class="math inline">\(\hat{T}(\vec{a})\)</span>, i.e. <span class="math inline">\([\hat{H}, \hat{T}(\vec{a})] = 0\)</span>. Therefore <span class="math inline">\(\hat{H}\)</span> and <span class="math inline">\(\hat{T}(\vec{a})\)</span> must share eigenstates <span class="math inline">\(\psi(\vec{r})\)</span>:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[
\begin{aligned}
\hat{H} \:\psi(\vec{r}) = E \:\psi(\vec{r})