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Notes on Wick's theorem in many-body theory

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arxiv 1710.09248 v2 pith:5EV24BVT submitted 2017-10-25 math-ph cond-mat.str-elmath.MP

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In this pedagogical note I present the operator form of Wick's theorem, i.e. a procedure to bring a product of 1-particle creation and destruction operators to normal order, with respect to some reference many-body state. Both the static and the time-ordered cases are presented. For the latter, in particular, I provide a simple proof.

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