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Past exam of the advanced quantum theory: path integrals and many-particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2024 2 b Solution by
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Taking the Hermitian adjoint gives . For nonzero wavevectors, the canonical commutation relations implyWhen the Kronecker delta is nonzero, , so the hyperbolic Pythagorean identity givesFor the two annihilation operators, the only potentially nonzero terms areHere implies equal magnitudes and hence equal , because depends only on . ThusThe corresponding commutators of two creation operators vanish by the Hermitian adjoint. This verifies that the Bogoliubov transformation preserves the full bosonic canonical commutation relations.
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