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Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
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Etymology
Formulated by Leslie Lawrance Foldy and Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen in 1949.
Noun
Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
en physics A unitary transformation of the orthonormal basis in which both the Hamiltonian and the state are represented; it has applications in high-energy physics.
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