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The angular momentum commutation relations implyThus $S_{\pm }|s,\sigma ⟩$ has the same total-spin eigenvalue and magnetic quantum number $\sigma \pm 1$. Its squared norm follows fromChoosing the conventional positive phases gives the spin ladder operator formula

For $s=1$, in the ordered basis $|1,1⟩,|1,0⟩,|1,-1⟩$,Since $S_x=(S_{+}+S_{-})/2$,

The incident state is the spin coherent state obtained by rotating $|1,1⟩$ through $\theta$ about the $y$ axis. Its amplitudes in the $S_z$ basis areup to an irrelevant phase convention. The Born rule therefore gives

The required state is the maximal-spin coherent state pointing at azimuth $\phi$ in the equatorial plane. In the same ordered $S_z$ basis it isIts norm is $(1+3+3+1)/8=1$. Direct multiplication using the matrices in part (b), or rotation of $|\hat{\mathbf{z}},3/2⟩$, givesIt therefore yields the value $3\hslash /2$ with probability one when spin is measured along $\mathbf{n}$.

The uncertainty of a spin projection is measured by its variance. In a maximally polarized spin coherent state, the longitudinal variance is zero and each transverse variance is $S/2$ in units $\hslash =1$. The transverse fluctuations do not imply finite magnon occupation in an isotropic ferromagnet's polarized vacuum.

Prepare the $J_1=+\hslash$ spin coherent state and evolve with Hamiltonian operator $H=\omega J_3$ for time $t$. In the descending-$J_3$ basis of the spin-one angular momentum matrices, the initial vector is $(1,\sqrt{2},1{)}^{\mathsf{T}}/2$ and the evolved vector is $(e^{-i\theta },\sqrt{2},e^{i\theta }{)}^{\mathsf{T}}/2$, where $\theta =\omega t$. The $J_1$ orthonormal basis has vectors $(1,\sqrt{2},1{)}^{\mathsf{T}}/2$, $(1,0,-1{)}^{\mathsf{T}}/\sqrt{2}$ and $(1,-\sqrt{2},1{)}^{\mathsf{T}}/2$. Taking their inner products with the evolved vector gives probability amplitudes $(1+\cos \theta )/2$, $-i\sin \theta /\sqrt{2}$ and $(\cos \theta -1)/2$. Their squared moduli give the Born rule probabilities in the title. At integer half-turns $\theta =\pi k$, the outcome is deterministically $(-1{)}^k\hslash$.