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Past exam of the quantum field theory course of the University of Oxford 2020 2 b Solution by
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For a Hermitian operator , the operator exponential is a unitary operator, with . Differentiation and giveWhen , this is the first-order ordinary differential equation with . Multiplication by makes its derivative zero, provingEquivalently, the commutator expansion for exponential conjugation has successive nested commutators , whose exponential series sums to this expression.
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