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NATURAL NUMBERS AND QUANTUM STATES IN FOCK SPACE

FRANCESCO A. RAFFA

Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

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MARIO RASETTI

Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219749909004840Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We investigate the expression of natural numbers in any base from a quantum point of view. In particular, resorting to the one-to-one correspondence between natural numbers and Fock states, we construct a set of multiboson operators and a set of translation operators, whose action on the Fock states leads to the coefficients identifying a natural number in any base.

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