Composite States

#Physics

$\displaystyle \ket{s,m_{s}}=\sum_{m_{1}+m_{2}=m_{s}}C_{m_{1}m_{2}m}^{s_{1}s_{2}s}\ket{s_{1}s_{2}m_{1}m_{2}}$

  • $\displaystyle \ket{s,m_{s}}$ is a composite state of the two states $\displaystyle \ket{s_{1}s_{2}m_{1}m_{2}}$ which can also be represented as $\displaystyle \ket{s_{1},m_{1}}\otimes \ket{s_{2},m_{2}}$
  • $\displaystyle C_{m_{1}m_{2}m}^{s_{1}s_{2}s}$ is the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients

$\displaystyle \ket{s_{1}s_{2}m_{1}m_{2}}=\sum_{s}C_{m_{1}m_{2}m}^{s_{1}s_{2}s}\ket{sm},\quad (m=m_{1}+m_{2})$

Examples

$\displaystyle \ket{1,1}=,\uparrow\uparrow$

  • $\displaystyle \uparrow$ represents a Half Spin

$\displaystyle \ket{1,0}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{ 2 }}(\uparrow \downarrow +\downarrow \uparrow )$

$\displaystyle \ket{1,-1}=,\downarrow \downarrow$