Holstein-Primakoff transformation

noun

Etymology

Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.

Definitions

  1. A mapping to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators,…

    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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