Published February 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

General mapping for bosonic and fermionic operators in Fock space

  • 1. Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg (Germany)

Description

In this article, we provide an alternative and general way to construct the result of the action of any particle-conserving bosonic or fermionic operator represented in second quantized form on a state vector, without resorting to the matrix representation of operators or even its elements. This approach is based on our proposal to compactly enumerate the configurations (i.e., determinants for fermions, permanents for bosons) that are the elements of the state vector. This extremely simplifies the calculation of the action of an operator on a state vector. The computations of statical properties and the evolution dynamics of a system become much more efficient, and applications to systems made of more particles become feasible. Explicit formulations are given for spin-polarized fermionic systems and spinless bosonic systems, as well as to general (two-component) fermionic systems, two-component bosonic systems, and mixtures thereof.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 022124-022124.12
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42001355
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSONS; FERMIONS; MAPPING; MATRICES; SPIN ORIENTATION; VECTORS
Descriptors DEC
ORIENTATION; TENSORS

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