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To motivate the introduction of four component spinors for spin-1/2 particles, it is instructive to compare real and complex scalar fields that describe spin-0 particles. Consider a free scalar field theory with two real, mass-degenerate scalar fields ϕ1(x) and ϕ2(x).
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