Energy Eigenstates
Fock states are eigenstates of the Hamiltonian of the field:
where is the energy eigenvalue corresponding to . When we put in the expression for the Hamiltonian we get:
Therefore energy of the state is given by where is the frequency of the field. Note that even at the energy does not vanish. This is the zero-point energy.
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