Hamiltonian for a scalar field
Hamiltonian for a scalar field
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In [1] it is left as an exersize to expand the scalar field Hamiltonian in terms of the raising and lowering operators. Let’s do that.
The field operator expanded in terms of the raising and lowering operators is
\begin{equation}\label{eqn:scalarFieldHamiltonian:20} \phi(x) = \int \frac{ d^3 k}{ (2 \pi)^{3/2} \sqrt{ 2 \omega_k } } \lr{ a_k…
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