On the use of Lie group homomorphisms for treating similarity transformations in nonadiabatic photochemistry

DOI10.1155/2014/795730MaRDI QIDQ471667zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Benjamin Lasorne

Publication date 17 November 2014

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/795730

zbMATH Keywords

Gell-Mann matricesHamiltonian matricesHermitian matrixLie group homomorphismsnonadiabatic photochemistryPauli matricesunitary matrixunitary similarity transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Special matrices (15B99) Quantum optics (81V80)

Review text

Summary: A formulation based on Lie group homomorphisms is presented for simplifying the treatment of unitary similarity transformations of Hamiltonian matrices in nonadiabatic photochemistry. A general derivation is provided whereby it is shown that a similarity transformation acting on a traceless, Hermitian matrix through a unitary matrix of \(\mathrm{SU}(n)\) is equivalent to the product of a single matrix of \(\mathrm O(N^2-1)\) by a real vector. We recall how Pauli matrices are the adequate tool when \(n=2\) and show how the same is achieved for \(n=3\) with Gell-Mann matrices.

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