Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Rotational invariance refers to the fact that after a rotation the new system still follows Schrodinger's equation. That is [R,E-H]=0 for any rotation R. since the rotation does not depend explicitly on time, it commutes with the energy operator. Thus for rotational invariance we must have [R,H]=0. Since [R,E-H]=0, and because for infinitesimal rotation(in the xy-plane for this example; it may be done likewise for any plane) by an angle dθ the rotation operator is R=1+Jz*dθ, [1+Jz*dθ,d/dt]=0; thus d/dt(Jz)=0, that is angular momentum is conserved This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.