Wednesday, 19 April 2017

quantum mechanics - Do spin-spin interactions break time reversal symmetry?


I'm sure the answer is yes, but how is this shown? Normally for a single spin-1/2 you have a time reversal operator: iσyˆK where σy is the second Pauli matrix and ˆK is the conjugation operator. How is this generalized to two spins?


I am thinking of whether or not interactions like exchange (JˆS1ˆS2) or the hyperfine interaction (contact Fermi: aˆSˆI) break time reversal symmetry.




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