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The Fock space is an algebraic construction used in quantum mechanics to construct the quantum states space of a variable or unknown number of identical particles from a single particle Hilbert space . It is named after V. A. Fock who first introduced it in his 1932 paper ''Konfigurationsraum und zweite Quantelung''.〔V. Fock, ''Z. Phys''. 75 (1932), 622-647〕〔M.C. Reed, B. Simon, "Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume II", Academic Press 1975. Page 328.〕 Informally, a Fock space is the sum of a set of Hilbert spaces representing zero particle states, one particle states, two particle states, and so on. If the identical particles are bosons, the -particle states are vectors in a symmetrized tensor product of single-particle Hilbert spaces . If the identical particles are fermions, the -particle states are vectors in an antisymmetrized tensor product of single-particle Hilbert spaces . A general state in Fock space is a linear combination of n-particle states, one for each ''n''. Technically, the Fock space is (the Hilbert space completion of) the direct sum of the symmetric or antisymmetric tensors in the tensor powers of a single-particle Hilbert space , : Here is the operator which symmetrizes or antisymmetrizes a tensor, depending on whether the Hilbert space describes particles obeying bosonic or fermionic statistics, and the overline represents the completion of the space. The bosonic (resp. fermionic) Fock space can alternatively be constructed as (the Hilbert space completion of) the symmetric tensors (resp. alternating tensors ). For every basis for } there is a natural basis of the Fock space, the Fock states. == Definition == Fock space is the (Hilbert) direct sum of tensor products of copies of a single-particle Hilbert space : Here , the complex scalars, consists of the states corresponding to no particles, the states of one particle, the states of two identical particles etc. A typical state in is given by : where : is a vector of length 1, called the vacuum state and is a complex coefficient, : is a state in the single particle Hilbert space, :, and is a complex coefficient :etc. The convergence of this infinite sum is important if is to be a Hilbert space. Technically we require to be the Hilbert space completion of the algebraic direct sum. It consists of all infinite tuples such that the norm, defined by the inner product is finite : where the particle norm is defined by : i.e. the restriction of the norm on the tensor product For two states :, and : the inner product on is then defined as : where we use the inner products on each of the -particle Hilbert spaces. Note that, in particular the particle subspaces are orthogonal for different . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fock space」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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