Wigner D-matrix

The Wigner D-matrix is a square matrix, of dimension $2j+1$, given by

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${\begin{array}{lcl}d_{m'm}^{j}(\beta )&=&D_{m'm}^{j}(0,\beta ,0)\\&=&\langle jm'|e^{-i\beta j_{y}}|jm\rangle \\&=&[(j+m')!(j-m')!(j+m)!(j-m)!]^{1/2}\sum _{s}{\frac {(-1)^{m'-m+s}}{(j+m-s)!s!(m'-m+s)!(j-m'-s)!}}\\&&\times \left(\cos {\frac {\beta }{2}}\right)^{2j+m-m'-2s}\left(\sin {\frac {\beta }{2}}\right)^{m'-m+2s}\end{array}}$

Relation with spherical harmonic functions

The D-matrix elements with second index equal to zero, are proportional to spherical harmonics (normalized to unity)

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle D^{\ell}_{m 0}(\alpha,\beta,\gamma)^* = \sqrt{\frac{4\pi}{2\ell+1}} Y_{\ell}^m (\beta, \alpha )}

External links

• Wigner D-matrix page on Wikipedia

References

1. E. P. Wigner, Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendungen auf die Quantenmechanik der Atomspektren, Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig (1931).