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In this invited review in honor of 100 years since the Stern-Gerlach (SG) experiments, we describe a decade of SG interferometry on the atom chip. The SG effect has been a paradigm of quantum mechanics throughout the last century, but there…

The Stern-Gerlach effect, discovered a century ago, has become a paradigm of quantum mechanics. Surprisingly there has been little evidence that the original scheme with freely propagating atoms exposed to gradients from macroscopic magnets…

Originally conceived as a gedankenexperiment, an apparatus consisting of two Stern--Gerlach apparatuses joined in an inverted manner touched on the fundamental question of the reversibility of evolution in quantum mechanics. Theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Mikołaj M. Paraniak , Berthold-Georg Englert

Atomic interferometers have been studied as a promising device for precise sensing of external fields. Among various configurations, a particular configuration with a butterfly-shaped geometry has been designed to sensitively probe field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Changhun Oh , Hyukjoon Kwon , Liang Jiang , M. S. Kim

We present a unique matter-wave interferometer whose phase scales with the cube of the time the atom spends in the interferometer. Our scheme is based on a full-loop Stern-Gerlach interferometer incorporating four magnetic field gradient…

The Stern-Gerlach experiment has played an important role in our understanding of quantum behavior. We propose and analyze a modified version of this experiment where the magnetic field of the detector is in a quantum superposition, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 R. G. Daghigh , M. D. Green , C. J. West

The Stern-Gerlach-Experiment (SGE) of 1922 is a seminal benchmark experiment of quantum physics providing evidence for several fundamental properties of quantum systems. Based on today's knowledge we illustrate the different benchmark…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Horst Schmidt-Böcking , Lothar Schmidt , Hans Jürgen Lüdde , Wolfgang Trageser , Tilman Sauer

The historical significance of the Stern-Gerlach experiment lies in its provision of the initial evidence for space quantization. Over time, its sequential form has evolved into an elegant paradigm that effectively illustrates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Meng-Jun Hu , Haixing Miao , Yong-Sheng Zhang

Stern-Gerlach experiment is a paradigm of measurement theory in quantum mechanics. Notwithstanding several analysis given in literature, no clear understanding of the apparent collapse has been given so far. Indeed, one can imagine a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Frasca

The Stern-Gerlach (SG) experiment is a fundamental experiment for revealing the existence of ``spin''. In such an experiment, beams of silver atoms were sent through inhomogeneous magnetic fields to observe their deflection. Thus, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Jiang-Lin Zhou , Zou-Chen Fu , Choo Hiap Oh , Jing-Ling Chen

Stern-Gerlach experiment by free electron is very important experiment because it answered some questions that remain unanswered for almost a century. Bohr and Pauli considered its objective observation as impossible while some other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hosein Majlesi

The Stern-Gerlach (SG) effect is well known as the spin-dependent splitting of a beam of atoms carrying magnetic moments by a magnetic-field gradient, leading to the concept of electron spin. Antiferromagnets can accommodate two magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Zhenyu Wang , Weiwei Bao , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

The Stern-Gerlach effect is well-known as spin-dependent splitting of a beam of atoms with magnetic moments by a magnetic-field gradient. Here, we show that an induced gauge potential may lead to a similar effect for chiral molecules. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-02 Yong Li , C. Bruder , C. P. Sun

Recently, there has been a proposal to test the quantum nature of gravity in the laboratory by witnessing the growth of entanglement between two masses in spatial quantum superpositions. The required superpositions can be created via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Lorenzo Braccini , Martine Schut , Alessio Serafini , Anupam Mazumdar , Sougato Bose

We give a simple example of the tight connection between entanglement and coherence for pure bipartite systems showing the double role played by entanglement; it allows for the creation of superpositions of macroscopic objects but at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thiago R. de Oliveira , A. O. Caldeira

In the optical Stern-Gerlach effect the two branches in which the incoming atomic packet splits up can display interference pattern outside the cavity when a field measurement is made which erases the which-way information on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Chianello , M. Tumminello , A. Vaglica , G. Vetri

The possibility of obtaining the initial pure state in a usual Stern-Gerlach experiment through the recombination of the two emerging beams is investigated. We have extended the previous work of Englert, Schwinger and Scully \cite{ISG1}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thiago R. Oliveira , A. O. Caldeira

We show that superficially similar implementations of Stern-Gerlach Interferometers (SGIs) are expected to differ dramatically in their sensitivity to fields transverse to the primary acceleration direction. These transverse fields…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 D. Meng , D. Z. Chan , J. D. D. Martin

We present a feasibility study with several magnetic field configurations for creating spin-dependent forces that can split a low-energy ion beam by the Stern-Gerlach effect. To the best of our knowledge, coherent spin-splittings of charged…

The space quantization induced by a Stern-Gerlach experiment is normally explained by invoking the ``collapse of the wave function.'' This is a rather mysterious idea; it would be better to explain the Stern-Gerlach results without using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Ashmead
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