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Past exam of the quantum field theory course of the University of Oxford 2016 2 b Solution by
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The unit-normalized Fock vacuum is characterized byChoose the relativistic normalization of a one-particle state from the outset:Since any two creation operators commute, any permutation of their order gives exactly the same state vector. Thus these multiparticle quantum states are symmetric under exchange and describe bosons, without a minus sign or any additional exchange phase.
The Hilbert space is the bosonic Fock space, the direct sum of the symmetric -particle Hilbert spaces, including the zero-particle sector. Sharp-momentum kets are distributionally normalized; square-integrable wave packets provide ordinary Hilbert space vectors. For repeated occupation of a discrete mode, a unit-normalized number state uses . That factorial does not belong in the above labelled continuum-ket convention.
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