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An explicit formulation of the time reversal operator K with the property
that it preserve the sign of the position operator q, and reverse the signs of the momentum operator p and the spin \(\vec{\sigma }\) was made by Wigner (1932, 1959).1
Work at CCNY supported in part by the Army Research Office and by a grant from the City University of New York PSC-BHE Research Award Program.
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Lax, M. (1980). Time Reversal in Dissipative Systems. In: Gruber, B., Millman, R.S. (eds) Symmetries in Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3833-8_13
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