Solution

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Writing the Bogoliubov transformation componentwise, together with its Hermitian adjoint, gives
The full canonical anticommutation relations for imply
Equal-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 is
Equivalently, the matrix is an orthogonal matrix, , giving a canonical rotation of two fermionic modes. Its inverse is therefore

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