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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 3 33B a Solution by
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For distinguishable particles with one-particle Hilbert spaces , the multiparticle quantum state belongs toA product of one-particle states gives a product vector, and arbitrary linear combinations give entangled states. A noninteracting Hamiltonian is the sum of one-particle Hamiltonians acting on their respective tensor factors, so product-state energies add.
For two identical particles, the particle exchange operator swaps every degree of freedom. Since , its eigenvalues are . Particles whose allowed total states satisfyare bosons, while those satisfyingare fermions. Thus bosonic states are symmetric and fermionic states antisymmetric under interchange. The same condition applies to every transposition in a system of more than two identical particles.
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