I'm very confused by something I saw in Susskind's Advanced Quantum Mechanics Lecture 6. He introduces Fock space F, defines the creation/annihilation operators a+n,a−n on it (in terms of their action on the basis states |n1n2...⟩) and then defines the field operator on F Ψ+(x)=∑nψ∗n(x)a+n
First he shows that if a+,a− are the ladder operators on the single particle space H, and Ψ+(x)=∑nψ∗n(x)(a+)n then Ψ+(x)|0⟩=|x⟩, i.e. this operator on H maps the lowest energy eigenstate to the state of know position x. I followed that bit. But then he goes on to say that since Ψ+(x),Ψ+(y) commute that
Ψ+(y)Ψ+(x)|0⟩=|x,y⟩
But this makes no sense (to me) because the LHS is a state in H and the RHS is a state in H2. So my questions are:
- Does this last equation actually mean something?
- How do we achieve the real goal, which is to show that this equation is true in the fock space F?
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