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Past exam of the theoretical physics II course of the University of Cambridge 2019 3 a Solution by
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For bosonic creation operators and bosonic annihilation operators, the canonical commutation relations areFor fermionic annihilation operators and their adjoints, the canonical anticommutation relations areThe respective number operators are and . Their allowed eigenvalues are . In the fermionic case , so its eigenvalues must satisfy ; this is the single-mode Pauli exclusion principle.
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