Construction of the Time-Reversed Wave Function for a Charged Particle Moving in a Homogeneous Constant Magnetic Field

摘要

The construction of time-reversed state vectors and wave functions is presented for an exactly solved example. This example is a charged particle moving in a constant homogeneous magnetic field. It is shown that to introduce the operation of time-reversal, one should introduce two subspaces of the Hilbert space, each for definite orientation of the magnetic field. An example of application of the obtained transformation rule is presented, namely, the selection rule for elements of the electric conductivity tensor is derived. (Atomindex citation 14:756558)