Time reversal of a complex scalar field

ID: time-reversal-of-a-complex-scalar-field

For a charged spin-zero complex scalar field, time reversal preserves charge and can include an intrinsic phase. In its free-field mode expansion of a free field, antiunitarity conjugates the plane-wave coefficients. Relabel spatial momentum to its negative and compare the annihilation and creation terms: and . Particle annihilation remains annihilation; unlike charge conjugation, this operation does not exchange particle and antiparticle operators.

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