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Sunny Singh
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- For a spin 1/2 particle, why does Sx, Sy and Sz don't share the complete eigenspace even though all of them commute with S^2
We know that S2 commutes with Sz and so they share their eigenspace. Now since S2 also commutes with Sx, as per my understanding, the eigenvectors of S2 and Sz should also be the eigenvectors of Sx. But since the paulic matrices σx and σy are not diagonlized in the eigenbasis of S2, it is clear that S2 and Sx don't share their eigenspace even though they commute with each other. How is that possible? what am i missing?