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Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A mapping to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators, effectively truncating their infinite-dimensional Fock space to finite-dimensional subspaces. Full definition →
Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.