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Wick's theorem is a method of reducing high-order derivatives to a combinatorics problem.〔Philips, 2001〕 It is named after Gian-Carlo Wick. It is used extensively in quantum field theory to reduce arbitrary products of creation and annihilation operators to sums of products of pairs of these operators. This allows for the use of Green's function methods, and consequently the use of Feynman diagrams in the field under study. A more general idea in probability theory is Isserlis’ theorem. ==Definition of contraction== For two operators and we define their contraction to be : where denotes the normal order of an operator . Alternatively, contractions can be denoted by a line joining and . We shall look in detail at four special cases where and are equal to creation and annihilation operators. For particles we'll denote the creation operators by and the annihilation operators by (). They satisfy the usual commutation relations , where denotes the Kronecker delta. We then have : : : : where . These relationships hold true for bosonic operators or fermionic operators because of the way normal ordering is defined. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wick's theorem」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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