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Parity as the foundation of the non-relativistic spin-statistics connection

2022/03/10 by Averin, Dmitri V.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.05106

Abstract

It is shown that the symmetry under parity of the wavefunctions of two identical particles with an arbitrary spin s in three spatial dimensions accounts for the appropriate wavefunction exchange statistics under the permutations of particles. The standard properties of the angular momentum in non-relativistic quantum mechanics account for the sign factor (-1)2s that the wavefunctions acquire under the permutation of coordinates of the two particles, without any additional requirements, directly relating spin and the particle exchange statistics in the non-relativistic context.

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