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In this chapter we discuss the second quantization of the non-relativistic matter field, that is the Schrödinger field. We show that the Schrödinger field can be expressed as a infinite sum of harmonic oscillators.
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Salasnich, L. (2017). Second Quantization of Matter. In: Quantum Physics of Light and Matter . UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52998-1_7
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