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Re: Commutators with boson operators

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  • Subject: [mg97878] Re: Commutators with boson operators
  • From: Sotirios Bonanos <sbonano at inp.demokritos.gr>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:33:29 -0500 (EST)

Hi there, 

This is precisely the type of problems that the symbolic matrix capabilities of my EDC package (http://www.inp.demokritos.gr/~sbonano/EDC/) can handle. It is rather slow but does what you want. Download the code (matrixEDC.m), put it in an appropriate directory, and evaluate the attached notebook. 

Sotirios Bonanos 


> 
Hello, 
> I need some help. 
> 
> I want to write code that Mathematica would calculate commutators [A,B], [A,[B,C]] and so on..., 
> 
> where A,B,C,D,... are functions like 
> 
> A = a+ b*creat + c*annih + d*creat**annih + e*annih**creat +  f*creat^2+g*annih^2+... 
> 
> where a,b,c,d,... are usual complex numbers; 
> 
> and annih & creat are boson noncommutative operators 
> that satisfy commutation relation: 
> [annih, creat] = 1. 
> 
> Thank you in advance! 

CreatAnnih.nb

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