Student Friendly Introduction to QFT · Problem 17

Vectors: Spin 1 Fields

Physics — QFT · relativistic-spin-eigenstates

Problem

Pick one or two, other than the first, of the solutions (4-20) and show that for p1≠0p^1 \neq 0, p2=p3=0p^2 = p^3 = 0, a particle, which would be in a zz direction (up) spin eigenstate if p\mathbf{p} were zero, will not be in that up spin eigenstate. Then show, for the same solutions chosen, but with p1=p2=0p^1 = p^2 = 0, p3≠0p^3 \neq 0 as seen in the lab, that the particle is in the same spin eigenstate as it would be if p\mathbf{p} were zero.

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