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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 60 2 d Solution by
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True for the finite bound-level Morse model with nonzero adjacent control couplings. The Morse oscillator energies have the formOver the physical bound-level range these adjacent gaps are positive, and makes them pairwise distinct. Label the retained levels consecutively. With , all , the squared adjoint action of has eigenvalue on each adjacent skew-Hermitian coupling. A polynomial chosen by Lagrange interpolation can therefore isolate any one adjacent coupling from .
Commuting an isolated coupling once with the drift produces its independent antisymmetric quadrature. The bracket between the two quadratures yields a traceless diagonal generator; brackets along the connected chain produce every nonadjacent off-diagonal generator. Thus connected nondegenerate transition chain generates special unitary control proves , which gives density-state controllability. If the physical drift has nonzero trace, subtracting its traceless part also produces the identity direction, giving and full operator controllability. Shifting the energy origin may remove that extra phase direction but does not change state controllability. The assertion concerns the finite-level model in the question, not the entire bound-plus-dissociation Hilbert space of the untruncated Morse potential.
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