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Fock space

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Summary

The direct sum of zero-, one-, and many-particle tensor powers of a one-particle Hilbert space.

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Full tensor Fock space, bosonic Fock space, and fermionic Fock space are distinct constructions.

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Direct sum of vector spacesFock space

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Authored explanation

Fock space is a Hilbert direct sum of zero-, one-, and many-particle tensor-power sectors.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Hilbert spaceFock space

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Fock space is the graded direct sum of tensor powers of a one-particle Hilbert space.

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Apply a standard functorial or canonical construction whose output is not merely a reduct of the input and is not generally an equivalent presentation of the same object.

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Fock spaceFermionic Fock space

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Fermionic Fock space retains antisymmetric tensor powers.

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Keep the existing data and select the subclass satisfying an additional law, existence condition, finiteness condition, or other property.

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Fock spaceOccupation-number state

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Fock space has an occupation-number basis after choosing one-particle modes.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Fock spacePhonon

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After harmonic lattice normal modes are quantized, their multi-phonon states are represented in a bosonic Fock space. This formulation presupposes the normal-mode approximation and does not make phonons fundamental particles.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Fock spaceQuantum field theory

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Free fields and asymptotic particle states are naturally represented in Fock space. Generic interacting QFT need not admit a global particle interpretation or a Fock representation unitarily equivalent to the free one.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Fock spaceSecond-quantized formalism

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Fock space supplies the occupation-number state space for second quantization.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Fock spaceBosonic Fock space

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Bosonic Fock space retains symmetric tensor powers.

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Keep the existing data and select the subclass satisfying an additional law, existence condition, finiteness condition, or other property.

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