2004/11/09 by H. V. Mweene
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
published as H. V. Mweene, "Proc. Third Int. Workshop on Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics", Cotonou 2003, ed. J. Govaerts, M. N. Hounkonnou and A. Z. Msezane (World Scientific, 2004). · 6 pages, to appear in Physica Scripta
arxiv created 2004/11/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Intimate though the connection is between orbital angular momentum and intrinsic spin, there are differences between them the two quantities. One of them is the fact that while orbital angular momentum has a wave-mechanics description by courtesy of Legendre's equation, spin lacks one. In this paper, we show that there exists a differential eigenvalue equation whose solutions are the spin-1/2 eigenvectors.