Q and P representatives for spherical tensors
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 9 (7) , L65-L66
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/9/7/001
Abstract
The Q and P-representatives for the irreducible spherical tensor operators YML(J) are proportional to the corresponding spherical harmonics YML( theta , phi ). In the coherent state basis associated with the (2j+1)-dimensional unitary irreducible representation of SU(2), the proportionality factors are (2j)!/(2j-L)!2L and (2j+1+L)!/(2j+1)!2L, respectively.Keywords
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