Time reversal of a Dirac field

ID: time-reversal-of-a-dirac-field

The spinor matrix obeys , with and . Conjugating the explicit and three spatial matrices also gives . With spin phases and identities , relabeling spin and momentum in the mode expansion of a Dirac field gives , because . That last relation is phase-convention dependent; the quantum time-reversal operator itself is not just a spinor matrix.

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