Recover the angular momentum operators from and . The spin-one angular momentum matrices in the chosen descending- orthonormal basis are
They are self-adjoint operators, satisfy , and give , as required for .
Spin-one half-turn matrix Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-11-05
In the ordered spin-one basis , introduce the dimensionless generator . The spin-one angular momentum matrices imply , so the matrix exponential reduces to
At a half-turn,
The rotation exchanges the two outer weights and negates the middle weight. Keeping in the exponential distinguishes the dimensional angular momentum operator from its dimensionless representation matrix.
Applied to the pion isospin triplet, the same spin-one representation fixes the rotation factor entering G parity. That application uses the internal-symmetry generators rather than a mechanical rotation of the particles.
Prepare the spin coherent state and evolve with Hamiltonian operator for time . In the descending- basis of the spin-one angular momentum matrices, the initial vector is and the evolved vector is , where . The orthonormal basis has vectors , and . Taking their inner products with the evolved vector gives probability amplitudes , and . Their squared moduli give the Born rule probabilities in the title. At integer half-turns , the outcome is deterministically .