Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

holstein-primakoff transformation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hol-stein-pri-makof-f -trans-for-ma-tion
IPA

53

Scrabble Score

31

Letters

9

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mapping to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators, effectively truncating their infinite-dimensional Fock space to finite-dimensional subspaces.

Etymology

Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.

Inflected Forms

Holstein-Primakoff transformations (plural)

Questions

What does holstein-primakoff transformation mean?: A mapping to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators, effectively truncating their infinite-dimensional Fock space to finite-dimensional subspaces.
Where does holstein-primakoff transformation come from?: Developed in 1940 by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff.

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