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American Journal of Physics

Solving spin-1 problems using spin-1/2 methods

David Leo Weaver

Published Jul 1, 1978• 5 citations
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Abstract

It is shown how many problems involving aspects of spin-1 matrix algebra may be handled in a way analogous to the spin-1/2 algebra of the Pauli matrices. A number of examples of the main point are given in illustration.
DOI
10.1119/1.11275

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