Equation 112 · The Entry a Relabeling Cannot Write
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Symbol U^dagger
agger is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Symbol U
U is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Symbol I
I is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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A third regime sits between the first two and needs its own treatment rather than being folded into either. Nothing here is discarded — = still — but the relabeling itself now carries explicit time dependence, because the “coarse” observer describes the same system from a frame in motion relative to the frame that defines : a rotating platform, a driven interaction picture, a magnet ramping in time. Let U(t) be the corresponding time-dependent unitary and |'(t) := U(t)| , with | solving i\, d|/dt = | . Differentiating the product and using U = I gives
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