Until now we have discussed the evolution of a quantum system from the point of
view that the wavefunctions are evolving and the operators are fixed (Schrodinger basis). In this picture, the time evolution of an expectation value is
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When the operator Q depends on time, this is modified to
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Now, when the operator Q is time-independent, and the state basis vectors are transformed so that all of the time dependence is in the operators, putting us in the Heisenberg picture,
, and
, then the equation of motion is easily found to be (
commutes with H)
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