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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