Second quantization

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Author: Dr. Carlo Maria Becchi, Genoa University, Italy

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Dr. Carlo Maria Becchi accepted the invitation on 1 August 2008 (self-imposed deadline: 28 February 2009).

Second quantization refers to the algorithm, based on Dirac's and Jordan-Wigner construction and Fock spaces, which is commonly used to treat relativistic and non-relativistic quantum systems of many identical particles.

Invited by: Dr. Riccardo Guida, Institut de Physique Théorique; CEA, IPhT; CNRS; Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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