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A system consisting of two neutral spin 1/2 particles is analyzed for two magnetic field perturbations: 1) an inhomogeneous magnetic field over all space, and 2) external fields over a half space containing only one of the particles. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Yakir Aharonov , Jeeva Anandan , G. Jordan Maclay , Jun Suzuki

Efficient simulations of quantum evolutions of spin-1/2 systems are relevant for ensemble quantum computation as well as in typical NMR experiments. We propose an efficient method to calculate the dynamics of an observable provided that the…

We propose the realization of linear crystals of cold ions which contain different atomic species for investigating quantum phase transitions and frustration effects in spin system beyond the commonly discussed case of $s=1/2$. Mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Peter A. Ivanov , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Scheme for optimal spin state estimation is considered in analogy with phase detection in interferometry. Recently reported coherent measurements yielding the average fidelity (N+1)/(N+2) for N particle system corresponds to the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Hradil , M. Dusek

The Stern-Gerlach experiment is the fundamental experiment in order to exhibit the quantization of spin and understand the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. However, although the Stern-Gerlach experiment plays an essential role in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michel Gondran , Alexandre Gondran

The general expression of the Stern-Gerlach force is deduced for a relativistic spin-1/2 particle which travels inside a time varying magnetic field. This result was obtained either by means of two Lorentz boosts or starting from Dirac's…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 M. Conte , A. U. Luccio , M. Pusterla

We study the Quantum Measurement Process in a Stern-Gerlach setup with the spin of a silver atom as the quantum system and the position as the apparatus. The system and the apparatus are treated quantum-mechanically using unitary evolution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Anirudh Reddy , Joseph Samuel , Kumar Shivam , Supurna Sinha

We present an exact, analytic solution of the spin dependent quantum transport problem with spin-orbit interaction in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with one input and two output leads. We demonstrate that for appropriate parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

The paper studies spin-orbit interaction (i.e. the effect the spin has on the particle's trajectory in a magnetic field) as a model of quantum computation. The two-level spin quantum system is examined using the stochastic mechanics…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-11 Gerasimos G. Rigatos

We propose a physically reversible quantum measurement of an arbitrary spin-s system using a spin-j probe via an Ising interaction. In the case of a spin-1/2 system (s=1/2), we explicitly construct a reversing measurement and evaluate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroaki Terashima , Masahito Ueda

A simple demonstration of the spin-statistics connection is presented. The effect of exchange and space inversion operators on two-particle states is reviewed. The connection follows directly from successive application of these operations…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Morgan

We propose a method to prepare an entangled spin-orbit state between the spin and the orbital angular momenta of a neutron wavepacket. This spin-orbit state is created by passing neutrons through the center of a quadrupole magnetic field,…

The study of quantum quenches in integrable systems has significantly advanced with the introduction of the Quench Action method, a versatile analytical approach to non-equilibrium dynamics. However, its application is limited to those…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Lorenzo Piroli , Eric Vernier , Pasquale Calabrese

We show that the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator can be used to construct a solid state Stern-Gerlach spin-splitter. By threading such a Stern-Gerlach apparatus with a magnetic flux, Ahranov-Bohm like interference effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The generation and control of neutron orbital angular momentum (OAM) states and spin correlated OAM (spin-orbit) states provides a powerful probe of materials with unique penetrating abilities and magnetic sensitivity. We describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 D. Sarenac , J. Nsofini , I. Hincks , M. Arif , Charles W. Clark , D. G. Cory , M. G. Huber , D. A. Pushin

We propose a contextual cavity/circuit QED analogue and extension of the Stern-Gerlach experiment, where the pseudo-spin of a two-state `atomic' transition plays the role of the ``spin'', while the resonant field driving the transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Th. K. Mavrogordatos

In this second paper in a series, we show that the the general statistical approach to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics developed in the first paper yields a representation of quantum spin and magnetic moments based on classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 G. H. Goedecke

The one-century-old Stern-Gerlach setup is paradigmatic for a quantum measurement. We visualize the electron trajectories following the Bohmian zig-zag dynamics. This dynamics was developed in order to deal with the fundamentally massless…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Simon Krekels , Christian Maes , Kasper Meerts , Ward Struyve

Based on a scheme that produces an entanglement between the spin and the path variables of a single spin-1/2 particle (qubit) using a beam-splitter and a spin-flipper, we formulate a procedure for transferring this intraparticle hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Adhikari , A. S. Majumdar , Dipankar Home , Alok Kumar pan

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