Holstein-Primakoff transformation

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Etymology

Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.

Noun

Holstein-Primakoff transformation (plural Holstein-Primakoff transformations)

  1. (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.
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