Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by likelynew 3114 days ago
No, ELECTRON spin is not exactly a direction, as in 3D vector. In every direction, it can be +1 or -1. It follows different transformation than a vector(wigner matrix for j=1/2 and 1). Expressions like direction |z> and |x> are not independent in this case.

Photon spin is actually a vector, as with all spin 1 particle.