Past exam of the theoretical physics II course of the University of Cambridge / 2015 / Paper 1 / 5 / a

Choose orthonormal, flux-normalized incoming and outgoing channels and include all channels of this lossless scattering problem. Conservation of probability requires $\Vert \beta {\Vert }^2=\Vert \alpha {\Vert }^2$ for every input vector. With $\beta =S\alpha$,For a square channel matrix this also gives $S{S}^{†}=I$. A submatrix obtained by omitting loss channels need not be unitary, but that is not the stated two-channel model.

The given real Hadamard matrix is symmetric, unitary and its own inverse. HenceThis same transformation preserves the canonical commutation relations for bosons and anticommutation relations for fermions. To extract probabilities one must use normalized number states, including their factorial factors, even when the supplied input expression is unnormalized.