in a spinorial basis
jm
(2j+1 dimensional)
A 3-d representation of of spinors is a family of cones.
This satisfies:
The cone has an x-y length of and a hypoteneuse length of
Relation to in coordinate space:
You can represent in
and
Since Then use lowering operator to get other
.
For rotation of an wavefunction, .
Rotations generated by total angular momentum: for
the pauli spin
matrices. This means
. For electrons
,
commute with everything,
so CSCO is
. This means a general eigenfunction is
. and
.
. rotating
about
you get