Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-theoretical-physics-ii-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2013/paper-1/1/d/solution

The angular momentum commutators used in the frame transformation are representation-independent. Therefore still holds. Rotating its axis onto gives eigenvalues and exact laboratory solutions
Now , so . In the adiabatic limit the dynamical phase is and
Indeed and differ by , an integer multiple of . Integer spins return with a positive rotation sign and half-integer spins with a negative one; the geometric phase need not vanish for either.

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