Derivation of the Quantum Mechanical Momentum Operator in the Position Representation

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I pedagogically show that the momentum operator in quantum mechanics, in the position representation, commonly known to be a derivative with respect to a spatial x-coordinate, can be derived by identifying momentum as the generator of space translations.

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Ryan Reece
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