The second quantization method for indistinguishable particles (Lecture Notes in Physics, UFABC 2010) (1308.3275v1)

Abstract: Contents 1. Creation and annihilation operators for the system of indistinguishable particles 1.1 The permutation group and the states of a system of indistinguishable particles 1.2 Dimension of the Hilbert space of a system of indistinguishable particles 1.3 Definition and properties of the creation and annihilation operators 1.4 TheFockspace 1.5 The representations of state vectors and operators 1.5.1 N-particlewave-functions 1.5.2 The second-quantization representation of operators 1.5.3 Examples 1.6 Evolution of operators in the Heisenberg picture 1.7 Statistical operators of indistinguishable particles 1.7.1 The averages of the s-particle operators 1.7.2 The general structure of the one-particle statistical operator 2 Quadratic Hamiltonian and the diagonalization 2.1 Diagionalization of the Hamiltonian quadratic in the fermion operators 2.2 Diagionalization of the Hamiltonian quadratic in the boson operators 2.2.1 Diagonalization of the quadratic bosonic Hamiltonian possessing a zero mode 2.3 Long range order, condensation and the Bogoliubov spectrum of weakly interacting Bose gas 2.3.1 The excitation spectrum of weakly interacting Bose gas inabox 2.3.2 The excitation spectrum of an interacting Bose gas in an externalpotential 2.4 The Jordan-Wigner transformation: fermionization of interacting 1D spin chains