Thursday, 8 November 2018

Learning about Hemititian Hamiltonians

Today I have learned that a Hermitian matrix like a Hamiltonian is real on its diagonal but has complex conjugates the other way. Leonard Susskind says that any operator L can be made up up components of the spin operators and the identity. a, b, c and d are real.

 Dagger means the complex conjugate of the transpose. I then did an example with numbers.