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Representation of Heisenberg-Weyl elements and their exponentials

There is possibly a huge literature on the subject but I am a newcomer on analytic representations and my need is rather specific. I simplify it below.

Let $A,B$ be two symbols (standing for annihilation and creation) and set $$ H_\mathbb{C}:=\frac{\mathbb{C}<A,B>}{<[A,B]-1>}=<A,B;[A,B]=1>_{\mathbb{C}-AAU} $$ where $\mathbb{C}<A,B>$ is the free (associative with unity i.e. AAU) algebra and $<[A,B]-1>$ the two sided ideal generated by $[A,B]-1$ (known as Heisenberg or Heisenberg-Weyl - one dimensional - algebra). My question is the following

Are there faithful and handy representations of $H_\mathbb{C}$ which allow the computation of one-parameter groups of its elements ?

The answers can be positive or even non-go theorems (see remarks below).

Remarks : (a) There are lots of variants of Fock spaces to represent faithfully $H_\mathbb{C}$, one of them is the Bargmann-Fock representation ($A=\frac{d}{dz},\ B=z$) which acts on : polynomials, series, entire functions (Hardy space $\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{C})$). The one on entire function allows for computation of the displacement operator as a one-parameter group through $$ e^{t\frac{d}{dz}}[f](z)=f(z+t) $$
the series converges for the topology of compact convergence on $\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{C})$.

(b) An easy non-go theorem is the following :

Theorem There exists no representation of $H_\mathbb{C}$ in a Banach algebra.