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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">\[ -\begin{aligned} - \hat{H} \:\psi(\vec{r}) = E \:\psi(\vec{r}) - \qquad - \hat{T}(\vec{a}) \:\psi(\vec{r}) = \tau \:\psi(\vec{r}) -\end{aligned} -\]</span></p> -<p>Since <span class="math inline">\(\hat{T}\)</span> is unitary, its eigenvalues <span class="math inline">\(\tau\)</span> must have the form <span class="math inline">\(e^{i \theta}\)</span>, with <span class="math inline">\(\theta\)</span> real. Therefore a translation by <span class="math inline">\(\vec{a}\)</span> causes a phase shift, for some vector <span class="math inline">\(\vec{k}\)</span>:</p> -<p><span class="math display">\[ -\begin{aligned} - \psi(\vec{r} + \vec{a}) - = \hat{T}(\vec{a}) \:\psi(\vec{r}) - = e^{i \theta} \:\psi(\vec{r}) - = e^{i \vec{k} \cdot \vec{a}} \:\psi(\vec{r}) -\end{aligned} -\]</span></p> -<p>Let us now define the following function, keeping our arbitrary choice of <span class="math inline">\(\vec{k}\)</span>:</p> -<p><span class="math display">\[ -\begin{aligned} - u(\vec{r}) - = e^{- i \vec{k} \cdot \vec{r}} \:\psi(\vec{r}) -\end{aligned} -\]</span></p> -<p>As it turns out, this function is guaranteed to be lattice-periodic for any <span class="math inline">\(\vec{k}\)</span>:</p> -<p><span class="math display">\[ -\begin{aligned} - u(\vec{r} + \vec{a}) - &= e^{- i \vec{k} \cdot (\vec{r} + \vec{a})} \:\psi(\vec{r} + \vec{a}) - \\ - &= e^{- i \vec{k} \cdot \vec{r}} e^{- i \vec{k} \cdot \vec{a}} e^{i \vec{k} \cdot \vec{a}} \:\psi(\vec{r}) - \\ - &= e^{- i \vec{k} \cdot \vec{r}} \:\psi(\vec{r}) - \\ - &= u(\vec{r}) -\end{aligned} -\]</span></p> -<p>Then Bloch’s theorem follows from isolating the definition of <span class="math inline">\(u(\vec{r})\)</span> for <span class="math inline">\(\psi(\vec{r})\)</span>.</p> -<hr> -© "Prefetch". 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