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daudaudaudau
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How do I express an arbitrary 2-particle state in second quantization? I could write this
[tex]
|\psi\rangle=\sum_{mn}c_{mn} a_m^\dagger a_n^\dagger |0\rangle
[/tex]
where [itex]c_{mn}[/itex] is a constant, [itex]a_n^\dagger[/itex] is the creation operator and [itex]|0\rangle[/itex] is the vacuum state. The only problem is that I want to sum over all PAIRS, and when I write the sum like this, all pairs are included twice, which is a mess.
[tex]
|\psi\rangle=\sum_{mn}c_{mn} a_m^\dagger a_n^\dagger |0\rangle
[/tex]
where [itex]c_{mn}[/itex] is a constant, [itex]a_n^\dagger[/itex] is the creation operator and [itex]|0\rangle[/itex] is the vacuum state. The only problem is that I want to sum over all PAIRS, and when I write the sum like this, all pairs are included twice, which is a mess.