TUTORIAL 4

PH 204 MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF PHYSICS

[ ]
1 -1 -1
A= 1 3 1
Qn 1. (a) Given -3 1 -1 , find matrix P such that P−1 AP is diagonalizable.

(b) Identify whether or not the following matrices are Hermitian, Skew-Hermitian or
Unitary matrices

[ ] [√ ] √ 3
i 0 0 1 2i
4

[ ]
3 −i
(i) i 3
[
0 i−1
(ii) i+1 i ] 0 0 i
(iii) 0 i 0 (iv)
2i
3
4
1

Qn 2. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of Qn 2(b)

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√3 √6 − √2
3 6 2
H= √
3 −2 √ 6
0
3 6
√6 − √6 √2
6 6 2
Qn 3. (a) Prove that is orthogonal.

[ ]
0 1 2
B= c 0 3
If a b 0 is a skew – symmetric matrix, find the values of a, b, and c

(b)

Qn 4. Consider the three spin matrices

( )
ℏ 0 1 0
(
ℏ 0 −i 0
) ( )
1 0 0
S x= 1 0 1 S y= i 0 −i S z=ℏ 0 0 0
√2 0 1 0 √2 0 i 0 0 0 −1
; ;
2
Show that (i) ( Si ) =I 2
(ii)
S x S y +S y S x=2 δ xy I 2 ; I2 unit matrix

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Qn 5. Consider the state
|δ ⟩=−i|φ1 ⟩+7i|φ2 ⟩ and
|ξ ⟩=|φ1 ⟩+3i|φ 2 ⟩ where
|φ1 ⟩ and
|φ2 ⟩ are
orthonormal. Calculate |δ+ξ⟩

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