Spinors in Physics
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'I Spinors in Three-Dimensional Space.- 1 Two-Component Spinor Geometry.- 1.1 Definition of a Spinor.- 1.1.1 Stereographic Projection.- 1.1.2 Vectors Associated with a Spinor.- 1.1.3 The Definition of a Spinor.- 1.2 Geometrical Properties.- 1.2.1 Plane Symmetries.- 1.2.2 Rotations.- 1.2.3 The Olinde-Rodrigues Parameters.- 1.2.4 Rotations Defined in Terms of the Euler Angles.- 1.3 Infinitesimal Properties of Rotations.- 1.3.1 The Infinitesimal Rotation Matrix.- 1.3.2 The Pauli Matrices.- 1.3.3 Properties of the Pauli Matrices.- 1.4 Algebraic Properties of Spinors.- 1.4.1 Operations on Spinors.- 1.4.2 Properties of Operations on Spinors.- 1.4.3 The Basis of the Vector Space of Spinors.- 1.4.4 Hermitian Vector Spaces.- 1.4.5 Properties of the Hermitian Product.- 1.4.6 The Use of an Antisymmetric Metric Tensor.- 1.5 Solved Problems.- 2 Spinors and SU (2) Group Representations.- 2.1 Lie Groups.- 2.1.1 Examples of Continuous Groups.- 2.1.2 Analytic Definition of Continuous Groups.- 2.1.3 Linear Representations.- 2.1.4 Infinitesimal Generators.- 2.1.5 Infinitesimal Matrices.- 2.1.6 Exponential Mapping.- 2.1.7 The Nomenclature of Continuous Linear Groups.- 2.2 Unimodular Unitary Groups.- 2.2.1 The Unitary Group U (2).- 2.2.2 The Unitary Unimodular Group SU (2).- 2.2.3 Three-Dimensional Representations.- 2.2.4 Representations of the Groups SU (2).- 2.2.5 Irreducible Representations of SU (2).- 2.3 Solved Problems.- 3 Spinor Representation of SO (3).- 3.1 The Rotation Group SO (3).- 3.1.1 Rotations About a Point.- 3.1.2 The Infinitesimal Matrices of the Group.- 3.1.3 Rotations About a Given Axis.- 3.1.4 The Exponential Matrix of a Rotation About a Given Axis.- 3.2 Irreducible Representations of SO (3).- 3.2.1 The Structure Equations.- 3.2.2 The Infinitesimal Matrices of the Representations of the Group SO (3).- 3.2.3 Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues of the Infinitesimal Matrices of the Representations.- 3.2.4 Irreducible Representations.- 3.2.5 The Infinitesimal Matrices of an Irreducible Representation in the Canonical Basis.- 3.2.6 The Characters of the Rotation Matrices of a Representation.- 3.3 Spherical Harmonics.- 3.3.1 The Infinitesimal Operators in Spherical Coordinates.- 3.3.2 Spherical Harmonics.- 3.4 Spinor Representations.- 3.4.1 The Two-Dimensional Irreducible Representation.- 3.4.2 The Three-Dimensional Irreducible Representation.- 3.4.3 (2 j + 1)-Dimensional Irreducible Representations.- 3.5 Solved Problems.- 4 Pauli Spinors.- 4.1 Spin and Spinors.- 4.2 The Linearized Schrödinger Equations.- 4.2.1 The Free Particle.- 4.2.2 Particle in an Electromagnetic Field.- 4.2.3 The Spinors in Pauli's Equation.- 4.3 Spinor and Vector Fields.- 4.3.1 The Transformation of a Vector Field by a Rotation.- 4.3.2 The Rotation of a Spinor Field.- 4.4 Solved Problems.- II Spinors in Four-Dimensional Space.- 5 The Lorentz Group.- 5.1 The Generalized Lorentz Group.- 5.1.1 Rotations and Reflections.- 5.1.2 Orthochronous and Anti-Orthochronous Transformations.- 5.1.3 Sheets of the Generalized Lorentz Group.- 5.2 The Four-Dimensional Rotation Group.- 5.2.1 Four-Dimensional Orthogonal Transformations.- 5.2.2 Matrix Representations of the Group SO (4).- 5.2.3 Infinitesimal Matrices.- 5.2.4 Irreducible Representations.- 5.3 Solved Problems.- 6 Representations of the Lorentz Groups.- 6.1 Irreducible Representations.- 6.1.1 Relations Between the Groups SO (3, 1)?andSO(4).- 6.1.2 Infinitesimal Matrices.- 6.1.3 Irreducible Representations.- 6.2 The Group SL(2,?).- 6.2.1 Two-Component Spinors.- 6.2.2 Higher-Order Spinors.- 6.2.3 Representations of the GroupsSL(2,?).- 6.2.4 Irreducible Representations.- 6.3 Spinor Representations of the Lorentz Group.- 6.3.1 Four-Dimensional Irreducible Representations.- 6.3.2 Two-Dimensional Representations.- 6.3.3 The Direct Product of Irreducible Representations.- 6.4 Solved Problems.- 7 Dirac Spinors.- 7.1 The Dirac Equation.
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Breite: | 155 |
Gewicht: | 375 g |
Höhe: | 235 |
Länge: | 14 |
Seiten: | 226 |
Sprachen: | Englisch |
Autor: | J. M. Cole, Jean Hladik |
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