A new method for the approximate disentangling of exponential operators based on the Baker–Campbell–Haussdorff theorem is suggested and implemented in a computer program. The operators to be disentangled must form a finite-dimensional Lie algebra. The accuracy of the method is tested and demonstrated in several explicitly calculated examples, where exact analytic solutions are available.
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