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JorisL
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Hi,
For the past couple of days I've been attempting to derive the equality (for any normalised ##\varphi##)
[tex]||(a+za^\dagger+ \lambda)\varphi ||^2 = ||(a^\dagger+\bar{z}a+ \bar{\lambda} )\varphi ||^2 + (|z|^2-1)||\varphi ||^2[/tex]
First of the summation seemed like a typo. So I first tried to prove this but got nowhere. As such I tried to change it to an equality. ( I entertained this idea because I found, and verified, some other typos in previous equations )Below is an outline of my attempt to derive the second equality (assuming a typo)
Thanks
Joris
For the past couple of days I've been attempting to derive the equality (for any normalised ##\varphi##)
[tex]||(a+za^\dagger+ \lambda)\varphi ||^2 = ||(a^\dagger+\bar{z}a+ \bar{\lambda} )\varphi ||^2 + (|z|^2-1)||\varphi ||^2[/tex]
First of the summation seemed like a typo. So I first tried to prove this but got nowhere. As such I tried to change it to an equality. ( I entertained this idea because I found, and verified, some other typos in previous equations )Below is an outline of my attempt to derive the second equality (assuming a typo)
Here we consider a system of bosons with only one mode hence ##[ a, a^\dagger ] = 1##.
I expanded the norm as ##||(a+za^\dagger+ \lambda)\varphi ||^2 = \langle (a^\dagger+\bar{z}a+ \bar{\lambda} )\varphi , (a+za^\dagger+ \lambda)\varphi \rangle##
I just cannot get a factor ##|z|^2## out of there. Because the inner product is defined as ##\langle\alpha \psi,\phi\rangle = \bar{\alpha}\langle \psi, \phi \rangle## while ##\langle \psi,\alpha\phi\rangle = \alpha\langle \psi, \phi \rangle##.
So the straightforward way doesn't work. Next I tried to use the first equality.
Lets call the two norms in this equality A resp. B, could I maybe use A-B was my idea.
Because in the text the commutation relations were mentioned which (could) show up directly this way.
I'm not going to write everything I tried (a lot) down here but I tried various tricks etc.
I expanded the norm as ##||(a+za^\dagger+ \lambda)\varphi ||^2 = \langle (a^\dagger+\bar{z}a+ \bar{\lambda} )\varphi , (a+za^\dagger+ \lambda)\varphi \rangle##
I just cannot get a factor ##|z|^2## out of there. Because the inner product is defined as ##\langle\alpha \psi,\phi\rangle = \bar{\alpha}\langle \psi, \phi \rangle## while ##\langle \psi,\alpha\phi\rangle = \alpha\langle \psi, \phi \rangle##.
So the straightforward way doesn't work. Next I tried to use the first equality.
Lets call the two norms in this equality A resp. B, could I maybe use A-B was my idea.
Because in the text the commutation relations were mentioned which (could) show up directly this way.
I'm not going to write everything I tried (a lot) down here but I tried various tricks etc.
Thanks
Joris