Solution

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Set . Inverting the creation and annihilation operators gives
Substitute these expressions in . Terms with two creation operators or two annihilation operators cancel because different modes commute. The remaining orbital angular momentum in oscillator ladder operators is
Equivalently it is , consistent with the circular ladder operators of a two-dimensional oscillator.

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