Transformation, unitary

One important application of similarity transformations is to reduce a matrix to diagonal form. This is particularly relevant in quantum mechanics, when the matrix is Hermitian and the transformation unitary. Consider the relation... 

To make this transformation unitary, we determine the norm from... 

If we consider G as a unitary transformation matrix that diagonalizes the g matrix and 1 is the diagonal matrix with elements toy, j =, N as... 

Finally, the unitary transformation W t) was shown to have a near-diagonal form ([252], Eq. XVII.97)... 

The vanishing of the YM field intensity tensor can be shown to follow from the gauge transformation properties of the potential and the field. It is well known (e.g., Section II in [67]) that under a unitary transfoiination described by the matrix... 

U(qJ is referred to as an adiabatic-to-diabatic transformation (ADT) matrix. Its mathematical sbucture is discussed in detail in Section in.C. If the electronic wave functions in the adiabatic and diabatic representations are chosen to be real, as is normally the case, U(q ) is orthogonal and therefore has n n — l)/2 independent elements (or degrees of freedom). This transformation mabix U(qO can be chosen so as to yield a diabatic electronic basis set with desired properties, which can then be used to derive the diabatic nuclear motion Schrodinger equation. By using Eqs. (27) and (28) and the orthonormality of the diabatic and adiabatic electronic basis sets, we can relate the adiabatic and diabatic nuclear wave functions through the same n-dimensional unitary transformation matrix U(qx) according to... 

The diabatic electronic functions are related to the adiabatic functions by unitary transformations at each point in coordinate space... 

As discussed in detail in [10], equivalent results are not obtained with these three unitary transformations. A principal difference between the U, V, and B results is the phase of the wave function after being h ansported around a closed loop C, centered on the z axis parallel to but not in the (x, y) plane. The pertm bative wave functions obtained from U(9, <])) or B(0, <()) are, as seen from Eq. (26a) or (26c), single-valued when transported around C that is ( 3 )(r Ro) 3< (r R )) = 1, where Ro = Rn denote the beginning and end of this loop. This is a necessary condition for Berry s geometric phase theorem [22] to hold. On the other hand, the perturbative wave functions obtained from V(0, <])) in Eq. (26b) are not single valued when transported around C. 

The derivation of the D matrix for a given contour is based on first deriving the adiabatic-to-diabatic transformation matrix, A, as a function of s and then obtaining its value at the end of the arbitrary closed contours (when s becomes io). Since A is a real unitary matrix it can be expressed in terms of cosine and sine functions of given angles. First, we shall consider briefly the two special cases with M = 2 and 3. 

The implicit-midpoint (IM) scheme differs from IE above in that it is symmetric and symplectic. It is also special in the sense that the transformation matrix for the model linear problem is unitary, partitioning kinetic and potential-energy components identically. Like IE, IM is also A-stable. IM is (herefore a more reasonable candidate for integration of conservative systems, and several researchers have explored such applications [58, 59, 60, 61]. 

Because IJ is a unitary transformation matrix, equation (216) can be written in the form... 

The physical meaning of the sections on transformation matrices and unitary matrices is that we can try to rotate our coordinate system so that each component... 

The unitary transform does the same thing as a similarity transform, except that it operates in a complex space rather than a real space. Thinking in terms of an added imaginary dimension for each real dimension, the space of the unitary matrix is a 2m-dimensionaI space. The unitary transform is introduced here because atomic or molecular wave functions may be complex. 

If the coordinate system has been transformed to the normal coordinate system by a unitary transformation U, the Hessian is diagonal and... 

These nine Qr,j are expressed as unitary transformations of the original mass weighted Cartessian eoordinates ... 

These transformation eoeffieients Crj,k can be used to earry out a unitary transformation of the 9x9 mass-weighted Hessian matrix. In so doing, we need only form bloeks... 

The sum over eoulomb and exehange interaetions in the Foek operator runs only over those spin-orbitals that are oeeupied in the trial F. Beeause a unitary transformation among the orbitals that appear in F leaves the determinant unehanged (this is a property of determinants- det (UA) = det (U) det (A) = 1 det (A), if U is a unitary matrix), it is possible to ehoose sueh a unitary transformation to make the 8i j matrix diagonal. Upon so doing, one is left with the so-ealled canonical Hartree-Fock equations ... 

Such a compact MCSCF wavefunction is designed to provide a good description of the set of strongly occupied spin-orbitals and of the CI amplitudes for CSFs in which only these spin-orbitals appear. It, of course, provides no information about the spin-orbitals that are not used to form the CSFs on which the MCSCF calculation is based. As a result, the MCSCF energy is invariant to a unitary transformation among these virtual orbitals. 

The importance of the characters of the symmetry operations lies in the fact that they do not depend on the specific basis used to form them. That is, they are invariant to a unitary or orthorgonal transformation of the objects used to define the matrices. As a result, they contain information about the symmetry operation itself and about the space spanned by the set of objects. The significance of this observation for our symmetry adaptation process will become clear later. 

The equations may be simplified by choosing a unitary transformation (Chapter 13) which makes the matrix of Lagrange multipliers diagonal, i.e. Ay 0 and A This special set of molecular orbitals (f> ) are called canonical MOs, and they transform eq. (3.40) mto a set of pseudo-eigenvalue equations. 

The orbital rotation is given by a unitary matrix U, which can be written as an exponential transformation. 

The X matrix contains the parameters describing the unitary transformation of the M orbitals, being of the size of M x M. The orthogonality is incorporated by requiring that the X matrix is antisymmetric, = —x , i.e. 

Normally the orbitals are real, and the unitary transformation becomes an orthogonal transformation. In the case of only two orbitals, the X matrix contains the rotation angle a, and the U matrix describes a 2 by 2 rotation. The connection between X and U is illustrated in Chapter 13 (Figure 13.2) and involves diagonalization of X (to give eigenvalues of ia), exponentiation (to give complex exponentials which may be witten as cos a i sin a), follow by backtransformation. 

So far there have not been any restrictions on the MOs used to build the determinantal trial wave function. The Slater determinant has been written in terms of spinorbitals, eq. (3.20), being products of a spatial orbital times a spin function (a or /3). If there are no restrictions on the form of the spatial orbitals, the trial function is an Unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) wave function. The term Different Orbitals for Different Spins (DODS) is also sometimes used. If the interest is in systems with an even number of electrons and a singlet type of wave function (a closed shell system), the restriction that each spatial orbital should have two electrons, one with a and one with /3 spin, is normally made. Such wave functions are known as Restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF). Open-shell systems may also be described by restricted type wave functions, where the spatial part of the doubly occupied orbitals is forced to be the same this is known as Restricted Open-shell Hartree-Fock (ROHF). For open-shell species a UHF treatment leads to well-defined orbital energies, which may be interpreted as ionization potentials. Section 3.4. For an ROHF wave function it is not possible to chose a unitary transformation which makes the matrix of Lagrange multipliers in eq. (3.40) diagonal, and orbital energies from an ROHF wave function are consequently not uniquely defined, and cannot be equated to ionization potentials by a Koopman type argument. 

For computational purposes it is convenient to work with canonical MOs, i.e. those which make the matrix of Lagrange multipliers diagonal, and which are eigenfunctions of the Fock operator at convergence (eq, (3.41)). This corresponds to a specific choice of a unitary transformation of the occupied MOs. Once the SCF procedure has converged, however, we may chose other sets of orbitals by forming linear combinations of the canonical MOs. The total wave function, and thus all observable properties, are independent of such a rotation of the MOs. 

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