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Second Quantization of Conserved Particles Electrons, 3He, 4He, etc. And of Non-Conserved Particles Phonons, Magnons, Rotons…
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We Found for Non-Conserved Bosons E.g., Phonons that we can describe the system in terms of canonical coordinates We can then quantize the system And immediately second quantize via a canonical (preserve algebra) transform
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We create our states out of the vacuum And describe experiments with Green functions With
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Creation of (NC) Particles at x We could Fourier transform our creation and annihilation operators to describe quantized excitations in space poetic license This allows us to dispense with single particle (and constructed MP) wave functions
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We saw, the density goes from And states are still created from vacuum These operators can create an N-particle state With conjugate Most significantly, they do what we want to! Think
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That is, they take care of the identical particle statistics for us I.e., the operators must And the Slater determinant or permanent is automatically encoded in our algebra
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Second Quantization of Conserved Particles For conserved particles, the introduction of single particle creation and annihilation operators is, if anything, natural In first quantization,
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Then to second quantize The density takes the usual form, so an external potential (i.e. scalar potential in E&M) And the kinetic energy
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The full interacting Hamiltonian is then It looks familiar, apart from the two ::, they ensure normal ordering so that the interaction acting on the vacuum gives you zero, as it must. There are no particle to interact in the vacuum Can I do this (i.e. the ::)?
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The Algebra Where + is for Fermions and – for Bosons Here 1 and 2 stand for the full set of labels of a particle (location, spin, …)
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Transform between different bases Suppose we have the r and s bases Where I can write (typo) If this is how the 1ps transform then we use if for operators x or k (n)
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With algebra transforming as I.e. the transform is canonical. We can transform between the position and discrete basis Where is the nth wavefunction. If the corresponding destruction operator is just
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Is this algebra right? It does keep count Since – F [ab,c]=abc-cab + acb-acb =a{b,c}-{a,c}b – B [ab,c]=abc-cab + acb-acb =a[b,c]+[a,c]b – For Fermions Eq. 4.22
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It also gives the right particle exchange statistics. Consider Fermions in the 1,3,4 and 6 th one particle states, and then exchange 4 6 Perfect!
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And the Boson state is appropriately symmetric 3 hand written examples (second L4 file)
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Second Quantized Particle Interactions The two-particle interaction must be normal ordered so that Also hw example
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