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The simplest truly non-trivial quantum systems have state spaces that are inherently two complex dimensional. This provides a great deal more structure than that seen in chapter 2, which could be analyzed by breaking up the space of states into one-dimensional subspaces of given charge.
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Woit, P. (2017). Two-state Systems and SU(2). In: Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64612-1_3
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