Hamiltonian

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In the context of Hamiltonian systems a (classical) Hamiltonian is a function over phase space.
In quantum mechanics a (quantum) Hamiltonian, is a self-adjoint linear operator $H:D(H)\subseteq \mathcal H\rightarrow \mathcal H$ , where $\mathcal H$ is an Hilbert space.

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