The expansion of the Klein Gordon field and conjugate momentum field are
ˆϕ(x)=∫d3k(2π)31√2Ek(ˆak+ˆa†−k)eik⋅x
and
\hat{\pi}(x) = \int \frac{d^3k}{(2 \pi)^3} \, \sqrt{\frac{E_{k}}{2}} \left( \hat{a}_{k} - \hat{a}^{\dagger}_{-k} \right) e^{i k \cdot x}
The total momentum in the classical field is given by
P^{i} = -\int d^3x \, \pi(x) \, \partial_{i} \phi(x)
which is promoted to an operator
\hat{P}^{i} = -\int d^3x \, \hat{\pi}(x) \, \partial_{i} \hat{\phi}(x)
We are told that putting the expansion into this should give
\int \frac{d^3p}{(2\pi)^3} \, p^i \left( \hat{a}_{p}^{\dagger} \hat{a}_{p} + \frac12 (2\pi)^3 \delta^{(3)}(0) \right)
which I do get, however I also get terms involving \hat{a}_{p}\hat{a}_{-p} and \hat{a}^{\dagger}_{p} \hat{a}^{\dagger}_{-p}. How in the world can these terms possibly go away? Have a made a mistake in the math (I am prone to mistakes at the moment.. quite tired) or is there some way that those terms cancel?
Answer
The two integrands p^i\hat{a}_{{\bf p}}\hat{a}_{-{\bf p}} and p^i\hat{a}^{\dagger}_{{\bf p}}\hat{a}^{\dagger}_{-{\bf p}} are antisymmetric wrt. {\bf p} \leftrightarrow -{\bf p}. Hence the corresponding integrals \int d^3p(\ldots ) are zero.
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