In this paper we provide a criterion of essential self-adjointness for
operators in the tensor product of a separable Hilbert space and a Fock space.
The class of operators we consider may contain a self-adjoint part, a part that
preserves the number of Fock space particles and a non-diagonal part that is at
most quadratic with respect to the creation and annihilation operators. The
hypotheses of the criterion are satisfied in several interesting applications.Comment: 20 page