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Homework Statement
This problem is from Lahiri and Pal (2nd edition) Exercise 1.4:
Suppose in a system there are operators which obey anticommutation relations
##[a_{r},a^{\dagger}_{s}]_{+}\equiv a_{r}a^{\dagger}_{s}+a^{\dagger}_{s}a_{r}=\delta_{rs}##
and
##[a_{r},a_{s}]_{+}=0,## for ##r,s=1, \dots, N.##
Construct the generic normalised excited state.
Show that no state can have two or more quanta of the same species.
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
The state ##\lvert 0 \rangle## is defined by ##a_{r}\lvert 0 \rangle = 0.##
For the Hamiltonian, ##H = \sum^{N}_{i=1}\hbar \omega (a^{\dagger}_{i}a_{i}+a_{i}a^{\dagger}_{i}) = \sum_{i=1}^{N}\hbar \omega = N \hbar \omega##.
I used the Hamiltonian for the SHO even though the problem did not ask for it, because the section the exercise belongs to is about SHO creation and annihilation operators.
Am I on the right track here?