plural of Holstein-Primakoff transformation

(quantum mechanics) A mapping to the spin operators from boson creation and annihilation operators, effectively truncating their infinite-dimensional Fock space to finite-dimensional subspaces.

(mathematics, signal processing) Synonym of black top-hat transform

plural of bottom-hat transform

plural of top-hat transform

plural of hit-or-miss transform

(mathematics) In morphology, an operation that detects a given configuration (or pattern) in a binary image, using the erosion operator and a pair of disjoint structuring elements.

(mathematics, signal processing) A particular operation that extracts small elements and details from images.

A pseudorandom number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.

(physics) A unitary transformation of the orthonormal basis in which both the Hamiltonian and the state are represented; it has applications in high-energy physics.