Physics: bra-ket\Ketbra

\KetbraCommand

Used for outer products in Dirac notation with automatically sized delimiters around both the ket and bra parts.

\Ketbra a b
Available in
braket
Kind
prefix
Allowed mode
math
Frequency
Not measured
Commonality
low
Renderer support
PackageMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
braketMathJax: FullKaTeX: NoneXeTeX: None
About the test scope

Syntax#

\Ketbram{a}math contentm{b}math content

Argspec m m — two mandatory arguments. Reading argspecs

In TeXForm#

TeXForm parses this entry as prefix syntax; the package determines its argument specification.

Expands to#

\Ketbra{#1}{#2} {\left\vert {#1} \right\rangle\left\langle {#2} \right\vert}

Both arguments are read with GetArgument, so each can be a single token without braces.

Equivalent forms#

  • {\left\vert {#1} \right\rangle\left\langle {#2} \right\vert}exact

See also#

Test cases#

braket
InputCaseMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
\Ketbra{a}{b}Positive · baselinePassFailFail
\Ketbra a{b}Positive · bare[0]PassFailFail
\Ketbra{a}bPositive · bare[1]PassFailFail
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