English Explanatory Dictionary

Wick's theorem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A method of reducing high-order derivatives to a combinatorics problem, used extensively in quantum field theory to reduce arbitrary products of creation and annihilation operators to sums of products of pairs of these operators.

Word forms

Wick's theorem

Etymology

Named after Gian-Carlo Wick (1909–1992), Italian theoretical physicist.

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