Abstract
A similarity transformation is an equivalence relation between square matrices which preserves determinant, trace and eigenvalues, playing a key role in quantum mechanics in simplifying complex hamiltonian systems and improving analytical results attainable from the use of perturbation theory. As a prototypical example, the conventional BCS theory of superconductivity is usually derived from a similarity transformation of the original electron-phonon hamiltonian, written in second quantized version. Here we discuss the general method for writing the similarity transformation operator in second quantized form, allowing one to recast a hamiltonian describing an interacting fermion-boson system into an effective theory in which only the desired degrees of freedom are kept after the transformation.
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