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Clebsch-Gordan coefficient

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a class of numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis.

Word forms

Clebsch-Gordan coefficient Clebsch-Gordan coefficients

Etymology

Named after the German mathematicians Alfred Clebsch and Paul Gordan, who encountered an equivalent problem in invariant theory.

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