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Gabriel Maia
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This is the problem I'm trying to understand:
Consider two particles with spin 1 without orbital angular momentum. If they are distinguishable, from the rule of addition of angular momentum applied to spin, we'll have states of total spin j=0,1,2. If we have, however, identical particles which are the possible states?
In textbooks, the addition of angular momentum is never treated in terms of distinguishable and identical particles, at least I don't recall it. The way I would approach this problem is to acknowledge that the possible total spin would be j=0,1,2 and then, from the state |-1\rangle |-1\rangle, I would use the ladder operator to build all the other four states compatible with j=2. How do I build the states for j=0,1? The state |j=1,m_{j}=-1\rangle must be built from the same states as |j=2,m_{j}=-1\rangle, that is, |-1\rangle |0\rangle and |0\rangle |-1\rangle. So how are they any different?
Thank you very much.
Consider two particles with spin 1 without orbital angular momentum. If they are distinguishable, from the rule of addition of angular momentum applied to spin, we'll have states of total spin j=0,1,2. If we have, however, identical particles which are the possible states?
In textbooks, the addition of angular momentum is never treated in terms of distinguishable and identical particles, at least I don't recall it. The way I would approach this problem is to acknowledge that the possible total spin would be j=0,1,2 and then, from the state |-1\rangle |-1\rangle, I would use the ladder operator to build all the other four states compatible with j=2. How do I build the states for j=0,1? The state |j=1,m_{j}=-1\rangle must be built from the same states as |j=2,m_{j}=-1\rangle, that is, |-1\rangle |0\rangle and |0\rangle |-1\rangle. So how are they any different?
Thank you very much.