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A modern Fortran library for SU(3) coupling and recoupling coefficients

Computational Physics 2026-03-31 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The group SU(3)\mathrm{SU}(3) has applications in several branches of physics. Many of these applications depend on availability of SU(3)\mathrm{SU}(3) coupling and recoupling coefficients. We have developed a modern Fortran library for calculation of the coupling coefficients, for both the SU(3)U(1)×SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(3)\supset\mathrm{U}(1)\times\mathrm{SU}(2) and SU(3)SO(3)\mathrm{SU}(3)\supset\mathrm{SO}(3) group chains, and the recoupling coefficients. The library implements the algorithms of Draayer, Akiyama, and Millener, which are laid out in the paper. Performance of the library has been tested and compared to the Akiyama-Draayer (AD) library implementing the same algorithms as well as to a more recent implementation. Our library works for a larger range of SU(3)\mathrm{SU}(3) quantum numbers and provides more accurate coupling coefficients with large quantum numbers than the AD library.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2505.08993,
  title  = {A modern Fortran library for SU(3) coupling and recoupling coefficients},
  author = {Jakub Herko and Mark A. Caprio and Anna E. McCoy and Patrick J. Fasano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.08993},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

27 pages, 12 figures

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