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  2. Spinors in three dimensions - Wikipedia

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    Given a unit vector in 3 dimensions, for example (a, b, c), one takes a dot product with the Pauli spin matrices to obtain a spin matrix for spin in the direction of the unit vector. The eigenvectors of that spin matrix are the spinors for spin-1/2 oriented in the direction given by the vector. Example: u = (0.8, -0.6, 0) is a unit vector ...

  3. Spin matrix - Wikipedia

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    The term spin matrix refers to a number of matrices, which are related to Spin (physics). Quantum mechanics and pure mathematics.

  4. Pauli matrices - Wikipedia

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    The fact that the Pauli matrices, along with the identity matrix I, form an orthogonal basis for the Hilbert space of all 2 × 2 complex matrices , over , means that we can express any 2 × 2 complex matrix M as = + where c is a complex number, and a is a 3-component, complex vector.

  5. Gell-Mann matrices - Wikipedia

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    These matrices are traceless, Hermitian, and obey the extra trace orthonormality relation, so they can generate unitary matrix group elements of SU(3) through exponentiation. [1] These properties were chosen by Gell-Mann because they then naturally generalize the Pauli matrices for SU(2) to SU(3), which formed the basis for Gell-Mann's quark ...

  6. Eigenspinor - Wikipedia

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    Suppose there is a spin 1/2 particle in a state = [].To determine the probability of finding the particle in a spin up state, we simply multiply the state of the particle by the adjoint of the eigenspinor matrix representing spin up, and square the result.

  7. Pauli group - Wikipedia

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    The Pauli group is generated by the Pauli matrices, and like them it is named after Wolfgang Pauli. The Pauli group on n {\displaystyle n} qubits, G n {\displaystyle G_{n}} , is the group generated by the operators described above applied to each of n {\displaystyle n} qubits in the tensor product Hilbert space ( C 2 ) ⊗ n {\displaystyle ...

  8. Spinor - Wikipedia

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    In three Euclidean dimensions, for instance, the Pauli spin matrices are a set of gamma matrices, [i] and the two-component complex column vectors on which these matrices act are spinors. However, the particular matrix representation of the Clifford algebra, hence what precisely constitutes a "column vector" (or spinor), involves the choice of ...

  9. Flit gun - Wikipedia

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    FLIT manual spray pump for insecticides from 1928. A Flit gun is a hand-pumped insecticide sprayer used to dispense FLIT, a brand-name insecticide widely used against flies and mosquitoes between 1928 and the mid-1950s. Although named after the well-known brand, "Flit gun" became a generic name for this type of dispenser. [1]