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Matrix elements are the components, or entries, of a matrix, typically considered in a certain basis.

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Definition of an operator in quantum mechanics

This is what computer scientists would call (ad-hoc) polymorphic or “overloaded” functions: basically, an operator $X$ on the Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ is not just one function $X: \mathcal{H}\to\ma …
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