Quantum time-reversal operator

ID: quantum-time-reversal-operator

A quantum time-reversal operator is an antiunitary operator reversing spatial momentum and angular momentum. For a time-reversal-invariant Hamiltonian operator, its conjugation of makes it intertwine forward and backward unitary time evolution without reversing the energy spectrum. A scalar momentum eigenstate may transform as . With unit-modulus phases and a complete normalized basis, expansion of arbitrary states proves antiunitarity.

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