Angular reduction in multiparticle matrix elements
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DOI10.1063/1.528515zbMATH Open0693.15020arXiv1811.02671OpenAlexW2085895715MaRDI QIDQ3035449FDOQ3035449
Authors: D. R. Lehman, William C. Parke 
Publication date: 1989
Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02671
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