HAMILTON OPERATORS, DISCRETE SYMMETRIES, BRUTE FORCE AND SYMBOLICC++
Willi-Hans Steeb, Yorick Hardy
Abstract
To find the discrete symmetries of a Hamilton operator Ĥ is of central importance in quantum theory. Here, we describe and implement a brute force method to determine the discrete symmetries given by permutation matrices for Hamilton operators acting in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Spin and Fermi systems are considered as examples. A computer algebra implementation in SymbolicC++ is provided.