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Rotational and mirror symmetry O(3)
When the density matrices are also invariant under mirror reflections, it follows from Eqs. (5),
(6), and (26) that
should have
positive parity. The spin Pauli matrices form an O(3)
pseudovector and thus the nonlocal spin density should be a
pseudovector as well. On the right-hand side of Eq. (27), only
the last term is a pseudovector. Therefore, in the case of the O(3)
symmetry, the spin nonlocal density takes the form:
|
(28) |
meaning that the local spin density
. It is
impossible to build a pseudovector from one vector ; therefore,
local densities
and
, being
pseudovectors, must vanish, as well as pseudoscalar
and pseudotensor
. On the other hand, vectors
and
do not vanish and take the form (24).
Jacek Dobaczewski
2010-01-30