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Past exam of the advanced quantum theory: path integrals and many-particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2025 2 b Solution by
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Writing the Bogoliubov transformation componentwise, together with its Hermitian adjoint, givesThe full canonical anticommutation relations for implyEqual-type anticommutators vanish because and :For the mixed anticommutators, the only potentially nonzero terms cancel:while follows from . Taking the Hermitian adjoint supplies the remaining relations. Thus the necessary and sufficient condition isEquivalently, the matrix is an orthogonal matrix, , giving a canonical rotation of two fermionic modes. Its inverse is therefore
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