Hej Val,
Thank you very much for your replies.
Yes, I know that both eigenvectors are correct while they are indeed related
to each other by unitary transformations (unitary matrices).
Actually, what I am trying to do is to evaluate the Berry phase which is
closely related to the gauge chosen. It is okay to apply an arbitrary
phase to the eigenvectors, while to get the (meaningful) physical quantity
the phase should be consistent for all the other eigenvectors.
To my understanding, if I run both Fortran and python on the same computer,
they should have the same phase (that is the arbitrary phase is
computer-dependent). Maybe some additional "rotations" have been performed in
python,
but should this be written/commented somewhere in the man page?
I will try to fix this by performing additional rotation to make the diagonal
elements real and check whether this is the solution or not.
Thank you all again, and of course more insightful suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
Hongbin
Ad hoc, ad loc and quid
pro quo
--- Jeremy Hilary Boob
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:19:55 -0500
From: kalat...@gmail.com
To: numpy-discussion@scipy.org
Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] One question about the numpy.linalg.eig()
routine
BTW this extra degree of freedom can be used to "rotate" the eigenvectors along
the unit circle (multiplication by exp(j*phi)). To those of physical
inclinations it should remind of gauge fixing (vector potential in EM/QM).
These "rotations" can be used to make one (any) non-zero component of each
eigenvector be positive real number.
Finally to the point: it seems that numpy.linalg.eig uses these "rotations" to
turn the
diagonal elements in the eigenvector matrix to real positive numbers, that's
why the numpy solutions looks neat. Val
PS Probably nobody cares to know, but the phase factor I gave in my 1st email
should be negated:
0.99887305445887753+0.047461785427773337j
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Val Kalatsky <kalat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Both results are correct.
> There are 2 factors that make the results look different:
> 1) The order: the 2nd eigenvector of the numpy solution corresponds to the
> 1st eigenvector of your solution,
> note that the vectors are written in columns.
> 2) The phase: an eigenvector can be multiplied by an arbitrary phase factor
> with absolute value = 1.
> As you can see this factor is -1 for the 2nd eigenvector
> and -0.99887305445887753-0.047461785427773337j for the other one.
Thanks for this answer; for my own benefit:
Definition: A . v = L . v where A is the input matrix, L is an
eigenvalue of A and v is an eigenvector of A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigendecomposition_of_a_matrix
In [63]: A = [[0.6+0.0j,
-1.97537668-0.09386068j],[-1.97537668+0.09386068j, -0.6+0.0j]]
In [64]: L, v = np.linalg.eig(A)
In [66]: np.allclose(np.dot(A, v), L * v)
Out[66]: True
Best,
Matthew
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