Hermitian conjugate

American

[her-mee-shuhn] / hərˈmi ʃən /

noun

Mathematics.

adjoint.

Hermitian conjugate British

/ hɜːˈmɪtɪən /

noun

Also called: adjoint. maths a matrix that is the transpose of the matrix of the complex conjugates of the entries of a given matrix

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Etymology

Origin of Hermitian conjugate

1960–65; after C. Hermite; -ian

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Together, these steps yield the Hamiltonianwhere h.c. is the Hermitian conjugate of the first term in parentheses and the excitation rate isBelow, in the absence of the decay term, the excitation rate will appear as the rate of the exponential growth of the number of excited atoms.

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