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Joost Andrae

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Apr 5, 2006, 4:15:48 AM4/5/06
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Hello Miquel,

do you mean something like this ?

left langle mline right none
newline
left none mline right rangle


Kind regards, Joost


Unnilenni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a scientific research project. I want to use Dirac's
> bracket notation (very popular in quantum mechanics) but I can't. There's
> the operator langle <?> mline <?> rangle, but I need to write separately <
> | and | >. I've looked up in the help files, but i couldn't find the
> solution. I'm not sure if it can be done but if not, it would be very useful
> for me and for other scientists.
>

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Joerg Barfurth

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Apr 11, 2006, 10:27:07 AM4/11/06
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Hi Thomas,

Thomas Lange wrote:
>
> If you need sth like <| a | b |> it works like this:
>
> langle mline b mline c mline rangle newline
> left langle mline a mline b mline right rangle
>

In physics you actually use the halves standalone, so that the <bra|
appears independently from the |ket>.

But apparently the
left langle bra mline right none
or
left none mline ket right rangle
notations can be used to achieve this.

- Joerg

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