Holstein-Primakoff transformation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.
Noun[edit]
Holstein-Primakoff transformation (plural Holstein-Primakoff transformations)
- (quantum mechanics) A mapping to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators, effectively truncating their infinite-dimensional Fock space to finite-dimensional subspaces.