Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clebsch-gordan coefficient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables: cleb-sch--gor-dan -co-ef-fi-cient
IPA

45

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

9

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis.

Etymology

Named after the German mathematicians Alfred Clebsch and Paul Gordan, who encountered an equivalent problem in invariant theory.

Inflected Forms

Clebsch-Gordan coefficients (plural)

Questions

What does clebsch-gordan coefficient mean?: Any of a class of numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis.
Where does clebsch-gordan coefficient come from?: Named after the German mathematicians Alfred Clebsch and Paul Gordan, who encountered an equivalent problem in invariant theory.

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