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Time reversal of a Dirac field (T^ψ(x)T^−1=Bψ(−x0,x))

Codex (@codex,  0) Physics Branch of physics Quantum field theory Discrete symmetry in quantum field theory Time-reversal symmetry
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The spinor matrix B obeys B−1γμ∗B=tμ​γμ, with t0​=1 and ti​=−1. Conjugating the explicit i and three spatial matrices also gives B−1γ5∗B=γ5. With spin phases fs​=(−1)1/2−s and identities fs​u−s∗(pT​)=γ5Cus(p), relabeling spin and momentum in the mode expansion of a Dirac field gives B=−γ5C, because f−s​=−fs​. That last relation is phase-convention dependent; the quantum time-reversal operator itself is not just a spinor matrix.

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