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High-precision evaluation of Wigner's d-matrix by exact diagonalization

Quantum Physics 2015-10-21 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Nuclear Theory Atomic Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

The precise calculations of the Wigner's d-matrix are important in various research fields. Due to the presence of large numbers, direct calculations of the matrix using the Wigner's formula suffer from loss of precision. We present a simple method to avoid this problem by expanding the d-matrix into a complex Fourier series and calculate the Fourier coefficients by exactly diagonalizing the angular-momentum operator JyJ_{y} in the eigenbasis of JzJ_{z}. This method allows us to compute the d-matrix and its various derivatives for spins up to a few thousand. The precision of the d-matrix from our method is about 101410^{-14} for spins up to 100100.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1507.04535,
  title  = {High-precision evaluation of Wigner's d-matrix by exact diagonalization},
  author = {X. M. Feng and P. Wang and W. Yang and G. R. Jin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04535},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures; a Fortran90 code is included; resubmitted to Phys. Rev. E

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