Lagrange-multiplier regularization of eigenproblem for J(x)
- Authors
- Jung, Dong-Won; Kim, U-Rae; Lee, Jungil; Yu, Chaehyun
- Issue Date
- 12월-2021
- Publisher
- KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
- Keywords
- Angular momentum; Eigenvalue problem; Lagrange multiplier; Quantum mechanics
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, v.79, no.12, pp.1089 - 1103
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
- Volume
- 79
- Number
- 12
- Start Page
- 1089
- End Page
- 1103
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/135652
- DOI
- 10.1007/s40042-021-00316-7
- ISSN
- 0374-4884
- Abstract
- We solve the eigenproblem of the angular momentum J(x) by directly dealing with the non-diagonal matrix unlike the conventional approach rotating the trivial eigenstates of J(z). Characteristic matrix is reduced into a tri-diagonal form following Narducci-Orszag rescaling of the eigenvectors. A systematic reduction formalism with recurrence relations for determinants of any dimension greatly simplifies the computation of tri-diagonal matrices. Thus the secular determinant is intrinsically factorized to find the eigenvalues immediately. The reduction formalism is employed to find the adjugate of the characteristic matrix. Improving the recently introduced Lagrange-multiplier regularization, we identify that every column of that adjugate matrix is indeed the eigenvector. It is remarkable that the approach presented in this work is completely new and unique in that any information of J(z) is not required and only algebraic operations are involved. Collapsing of the large amount of determinant calculation with the recurrence relation has a wide variety of applications to other tri-diagonal matrices appearing in various fields. This new formalism should be pedagogically useful for treating the angular momentum problem that is central to quantum mechanics course.
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