= Spin-momentum locking
<Spin-momentum locking> means that a state's spin direction is constrained by its momentum and its energy branch. In the isotropic <Weyl Hamiltonian> with $v>0$, the upper and lower branches have mean <spin> parallel and antiparallel to the momentum. Their textures in an equatorial momentum plane are radial outwards and inwards. Other Hamiltonians can lock spin transverse to momentum, so radial locking is an example rather than the general definition. In an effective model one must check whether its <Pauli matrices> represent physical spin or pseudospin before interpreting the texture as a measured spin.
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