HERMITIAN CONJUGATE Definition & Meaning

Hermitian conjugate

[ her-mee-shuhn ]

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noun

Mathematics.

adjoint ( def 2 ).

Hermitian conjugate

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maths a matrix that is the transpose of the matrix of the complex conjugates of the entries of a given matrix Also calledadjoint

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Hermitian conjugate¹

1960–65; after C. Hermite; -ian

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Hermitian conjugate¹

C19: named after Charles Hermite (1822–1901), French mathematician

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Together, these steps yield the Hamiltonianwhere h.c. is the Hermitian conjugate of the first term in parentheses and the excitation rate isBelow, in the absence of the decay term, the excitation rate will appear as the rate of the exponential growth of the number of excited atoms.

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Hermite Hermitian matrix

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