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. 1990 Sep;87(18):6983–6984. doi: 10.1073/pnas.87.18.6983

Phonon representations.

J Schwinger 1
PMCID: PMC54666  PMID: 11607101

Abstract

The gap between the nonlocalized lattice-phonon description and the localized Einstein oscillator treatment is filled by transforming the phonon Hamiltonian back to the particle variables. The particle-coordinate, normalized, wave function for the phonon vacuum state is exhibited.

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