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Holstein-Primakoff transformation
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Etymology
Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.
Noun
en 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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