Factorization of unitary matrices
- 6 March 2003
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 36 (11) , 2781-2789
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/36/11/309
Abstract
Factorization of an $n\times n$ unitary matrix as a product of $n$ diagonal matrices containing only phases interlaced with $n-1$ orthogonal matrices each one generated by a real vector as well as an explicit form for the Weyl factorization are found.
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