English Explanatory Dictionary

Holstein-Primakoff transformation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A mapping to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators, effectively truncating their infinite-dimensional Fock space to finite-dimensional subspaces.

Word forms

Holstein-Primakoff transformation Holstein-Primakoff transformations

Etymology

Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.

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