Angular reduction in multiparticle matrix elements

DOI10.1063/1.528515MaRDI QIDQ3035449zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. R. Lehman, William C. Parke

Publication date 1989

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02671

zbMATH Keywords

spherical harmonicsreductionClebsch-Gordan coefficientsmultiparticle systemsCartesian tensor forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

Abstract: A general method for the reduction of coupled spherical harmonic products is presented. When the total angular coupling is zero, the reduction leads to an explicitly real expression in the scalar products within the unit vector arguments of the spherical harmonics. For non-scalar couplings, the reduction gives Cartesian tensor forms for the spherical harmonic products, with tensors built from the physical vectors in the original expression. The reduction for arbitrary couplings is given in closed form, making it amenable to symbolic manipulation on a computer. The final expressions do not depend on a special choice of coordinate axes, nor do they contain azimuthal quantum number summations, nor do they have complex tensor terms for couplings to a scalar. Consequently, they are easily interpretable from the properties of the physical vectors they contain.

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