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How to understand a Hamiltonian of the form $c^\dagger \sigma^x c$?
In a 2-dimensional lattice Dirac model (a discretized Hamiltonian on a lattice, the model could be found in this dissertation, equation (2.19)), I found a Hamiltonian with terms like:
$$ H = \sum_{m,n}...