Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Properties of 3jm- and 3nj-Symbols; Basic Tools for the Graphical Method; Orthogonality Relations for 3jm-Symbols; Properties of the 6j-Symbol; Properties of the 9j-Symbol; General Principles for Diagrams; Closed Diagrams; Open Diagrams; Application in Atomic Physics; References; Properties of Spherical Tensor Operators; List of Diagrams; List of Symbols; Index
Summary
Application of quantum mechanics in physics and chemistry often entails manipulation and evaluation of sums and products of coupling coefficients for the theory of angular momentum. Challenges encountered in such work can be tamed by graphical techniques that provide both the insight and analytical power. The book is the first step-by-step exposition of a graphical method grounded in established work. Copious exercises recover standard results but demonstrate the power to go beyond
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index