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Ehrenfest theorem

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Also known as Ehrenfest's theorem

theorem that the time evolution of the expectation value of a quantum observable is proportional to that of the commutator between the observable and the Hamiltonian (plus that of any explicit time dependence of the operator, if any)

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Paul Ehrenfest
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