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Boson occupation ladder and fermion one-mode exclusion
A conditional algebraic example in the selected free scalar bosonic and Dirac CAR Fock models. It includes a bosonic Fock vector outside one annihilation-operator domain and a one-mode fermion occupation calculation; it reports no experimental outcome.
Example
Choose a unit scalar wave-packet mode and a unit Dirac particle or antiparticle mode . The states and operators below are those of the conditional model theorem CCR/CAR and particle occupations in adopted free models.
For the bosonic mode, let be the normalized -occupation vector. We also construct a normalized Fock vector whose annihilation image is not square-summable, so the maximal annihilation operator is not defined on every Fock vector.
For the fermionic mode, the one-particle vector has unit norm, while two creations in that same mode vanish. This calculation concerns one normalized CAR mode in the adopted representation; it is not a general spin-statistics argument.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice [A1], the scalar mode conclusion [F1], the CAR and exact annihilation domain [F2], and the Fock-sector definitions [F3]. The modes and are supplied unit vectors.
The Axiom of Countable Choice () states : every at most countable family of nonempty sets has a choice function.
CCR/CAR and particle occupations in adopted free models proves that for each unit scalar mode , is normalized and satisfies the bosonic ladder.
Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains gives the CAR and for a unit mode, and states that both operators are bounded on the whole Fock space.
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions defines the vacuum as , states , and gives the sector insertion and contraction formulas. The finite-particle domain is dense.
Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains states the exact maximal annihilation domain .
Verification
Given: [A1], [F1]–[F4], and the chosen normalized modes and .
Let . For each , the block contains terms, each at most , so its sum is at most . Summing these geometric bounds proves . Therefore is a positive finite constant, and the orthonormal bosonic mode states from [F1] give with .
For in the th antisymmetric sector and in the next sector, the insertion formula, , and self-adjointness of this orthogonal projection give by the tensor product pairing and contraction formula in [F3]. Summing over finite-sector vectors proves there. Boundedness in [F2] and density in [F3] extend this identity to the full Fock space, so . The CAR, vacuum relation, and nilpotence in [F2]–[F3] then give . Thus the one-mode state is normalized and a second creation in that mode is zero.
By the ladder in [F1], the squared norm of the annihilation-sector sequence for this vector is . Since for , . Each dyadic block contributes at least to the harmonic series, so diverges and therefore . By [F1], the annihilation images of the different particle sectors lie in orthogonal sectors, so this is exactly . The exact domain in [F4] now gives , despite being a normalized Fock vector.
The adjoint identity and CAR in [F2] give and , so is a projection. The vacuum relation gives , while . Thus its eigenvalues on the one-mode subspace are and . These are conditional model-state calculations, not measured outcomes.
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Sources
- David Tong, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted full-text Chapter 2, §§2.2–2.4, Free Fields, Vacuum, and Particles
- David Tong, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted full-text Chapter 5, §§5.2–5.4, Quantizing the Dirac Field
- Mark Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted 2006 prepublication book draft