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Time reversal of pseudo-spin 1/2 degrees of freedom

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arxiv 0909.2169 v2 pith:PKLIP2XA submitted 2009-09-11 cond-mat.mes-hall quant-ph

Time reversal of pseudo-spin 1/2 degrees of freedom

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keywords pseudo-spinreversaltimetypecomponentsdegreesfreedomordinary
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We show that pseudo-spin 1/2 degrees of freedom can be categorized in two types according to their behavior under time reversal. One type exhibits the properties of ordinary spin whose three Cartesian components are all odd under time reversal. For the second type, only one of the components is odd while the other two are even. We discuss several physical examples for this second type of pseudo-spin and highlight observable consequences that can be used to distinguish it from ordinary spin.

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