B3.23
Part II, 2001
Write down the commutation relations satisfied by the cartesian components of the total angular momentum operator .
In quantum mechanics an operator is said to be a vector operator if, under rotations, its components transform in the same way as those of the coordinate operator r. Show from first principles that this implies that its cartesian components satisfy the commutation relations
Hence calculate the total angular momentum of the nonvanishing states , where is the vacuum state.