Time evolution of a quantum system

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Lecture overview

Professor Susskind opens the lecture by presenting the four fundamental principles of quantum mechanics that he touched on briefly in the last lecture.  He then discusses the evolution in time of a quantum system, and describes how the classical concept of reversibility relates to the quantum mechanical principle of conservation of information, which is actually the conservation of distinctions or distinguishability of states.  The evolution in time of a quantum system is represented by unitary operators which preserve distinctions and overlap.