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The mathematical apparatus of second quantization is extremely useful for dealing with many-body systems. Although in nuclear physics the total number of particles is fixed in most problems (the principal particles that can be created and destroyed in low-energy nuclear physics are photons and — taking the concept of “particle” in a broader sense — phonons), the formalism takes the required symmetry properties into account more elegantly and allows the formulation of the extremely useful particle-hole picture of nuclear excitations.
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Greiner, W., Maruhn, J.A. (1996). Second Quantization. In: Nuclear Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60970-1_3
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