大学物理 ›› 2023, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (8): 55-.doi: 10.16854/j.cnki.1000-0712.220422

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自旋旋转至的相似变换可视化

张毅,梁兆新   

  1. 浙江师范大学物理系,浙江金华321004
  • 收稿日期:2022-08-23 修回日期:2022-11-17 出版日期:2023-08-28 发布日期:2023-09-04
  • 通讯作者: 梁兆新,Email: zhxliang@zjnu.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:张毅(2001—),女,浙江宁波人,浙江师范大学物理系2019级本科生
  • 基金资助:
    浙江省自然科学基金重点项目(LZ21A040001);国家自然科学基金(12074344)资助

Visualization of similarity transformation with spin  rotating to

ZHANG Yi, LIANG Zhao-xin   

  1. Department of Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China
  • Received:2022-08-23 Revised:2022-11-17 Online:2023-08-28 Published:2023-09-04

摘要: 电子的自旋是没有经典物理对应的纯粹量子特性,其基本性质是自旋空间中的自旋在任意方向上取值为.而找到一个演示电子自旋该性质的可视化例子是量子力学教学的重点和难点.本文通过构造三种不同的旋转算符,利用相似变换把旋转到自旋空间任意方向中的,进而视图化验证自旋本征值取,且比较了三种旋转算符在验证上述自旋基本性质上的优缺点.

关键词: 自旋, 旋转算符, SO(3)群, SU(2)群, 相似变换

Abstract: The spin of an electron is a pure quantum property without the counterpart of the classical physics. Its basic property is that the value of the spin in any direction in the spin space is. Finding a visual example to demonstrate this property of the electron spin is the key and difficult point in quantum mechanics teaching. In this work, the similarity transformation is used to rotate  to  which represents an arbitrary direction in the spin space by constructing three different rotation operators, and then the eigenvalue of the spin S^n is verified to be . Additionally, this paper shows the advantages and disadvantages of the three rotation operators in verifying the basic properties of the spin.


Key words: spin, rotation operator, group SO(3), group SU(2), similarity transformation