Paper 1, Section II,
Part IA, 2020
What does it mean to say an matrix is Hermitian?
What does it mean to say an matrix is unitary?
Show that the eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix are real and that eigenvectors corresponding to distinct eigenvalues are orthogonal.
Suppose that is an Hermitian matrix with distinct eigenvalues and corresponding normalised eigenvectors . Let denote the matrix whose columns are . Show directly that is unitary and , where is a diagonal matrix you should specify.
If is unitary and diagonal, must it be the case that is Hermitian? Give a proof or counterexample.
Find a unitary matrix and a diagonal matrix such that