Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Traces of products of angular momentum operators

M. A. Rashid

Published Aug 1, 1979• 6 citations

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Abstract

A symmetrical and computationally advantageous analytic expression for Tr(J k - J z l J + k ) is obtained.

DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/12/8/001

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