Phys. Rev. 82, 621 - 624 (1951)Particle Spin and Rotation |
Nathan Rosen
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Received 21 September 1950
It is proposed to treat the spin of a particle phenomenologically by considering the particle as a small rotating sphere, the rotation of which is described by euler parameters. If the rotation is quantized in the space of the euler parameters, one obtains both integral and half-integral values for the spin. In this way one arrives at a formalism in which the spin components can be represented as differential operators in the Schroedinger representation.
©1951 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v82/p621
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.82.621
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