ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hermicity

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hermicity is a noun meaning The quality that an operator has of being Hermitian.

Meaning

The quality that an operator has of being Hermitian.

Example Sentences

Unitarity is to hermicity what orthogonality is to symmetry. (That is, conjugation by unitary matrices preserves a Hermitian matrix’s hermicity, just as conjugation by orthogonal matrices preserves a symmetric matrix’s symmetry: (OSO⁻¹)ᵀ=(OSOᵀ)ᵀ=OᵀᵀSᵀOᵀ=OSOᵀ=OSO⁻¹; (UHU⁻¹)^†=(UHU^†)^†=UH^†U^†=UHU^†=UHU⁻¹.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hermitness, hermeticity, hermitude, hereticality, helicity, homishness.

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