I get it now... thank you. When the lowering operator operates on v1, I get v0. When it operates on v0, I get zero. A- v0 doesn't exist so the rest of the operators in the product have nothing to operate on.
Cheers.
Homework Statement
Can anyone please explain why any term which is a product of 4 raising and lowering operators with a lowering operator on the extreme right (eg. A-A+A+A-) has zero expectation value in the ground state of a harmonic oscillator?
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