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hermicity

hermicity noun: the quality that an operator has of being Hermitian.

Noun

hermicity (uncountable)

  1. The quality that an operator has of being Hermitian.
    • Unitarity is to hermicity what orthogonality is to symmetry. (That is, conjugation by unitary matrices preserves a Hermitian matrix’s hermicity, just as conjugation by orthogonal matrices preserves a symmetric matrix’s symmetry: (OSO⁻¹)ᵀ=(OSOᵀ)ᵀ=OᵀᵀSᵀOᵀ=OSOᵀ=OSO⁻¹...

Questions about hermicity

What does hermicity mean?
Hermicity means the quality that an operator has of being Hermitian.
What part of speech is hermicity?
Hermicity is a noun.

Words near hermicity in the dictionary

  1. hermetisms
  2. hermetist
  3. hermetists
  4. Hermia
  5. Hermian
  6. hermicity
  7. Hermida
  8. Hermidale
  9. Hermidas
  10. hermie
  11. hermies

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