Re: addition of three angular momenta
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg47788] Re: addition of three angular momenta
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 04:46:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
- References: <c6d8fi$jhh$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In article <c6d8fi$jhh$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
"Francesco Siano" <fsiano at thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> I am trying to use ClebschGordan[...] to generate the table of
> coefficients for the addition of three or more angular momenta.
> For the addition of two angular momenta J=J1+J2 I can do
>
> Table[ClebschGordan[{J1, m1}, {J2, m2}, {J, m}], {J, J1 + J2, Abs[J1 -
> J2], -1}, {m, J, -J, -1}, {m1, J1, -J1, -1}, {m2, J2, -J2, -1}]
>
> For more than two angular momenta, J=J1+J2+J3 I should first add J1 and
> J2, and then, for any Jtemp=J1+J2,J1+J2-1,...,Abs[J1-J2] add Jtemp and J3
> and so on.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The 6-j symbols (built-in as SixJSymbol) give the couplings of three
quantum mechanical angular momentum states.
Since both ThreeJSymbol (effectively equivalent to ClebschGordan) and
SixJSymbol can be evaluated for symbolic arguments, why do you want to
generate a table of values? For example,
Flatten[Table[{{{l, l + k, n}, {m, -p - m, p}},
FullSimplify[ThreeJSymbol[{l, m}, {l + k, -p - m}, {n, p}]]},
{n, 0, 2, 1/2}, {k, Mod[n, 1], n}, {p, n, Mod[n, 1], -1}], 2]
generates table 3 from Brink and Satchler. So why generate a table of
values if a closed-form exists for a particular class of coefficient?
Mathematica code for 9-j symbols -- coupling 4 angular momenta -- also
exists but there is, AFAIK, no closed form (except for a triple sum) for
the 9-j symbols.
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 9380 2734
School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 9380 1014
The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G)
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au
AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul