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We use a theory termed co-quantum dynamics (CQD) to numerically model spin flip in the multi-stage Stern$\unicode{x2013}$Gerlach (SG) experiment conducted by R. Frisch and E. Segr\`e. This experiment consists of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Zhe He , Kelvin Titimbo , David C. Garrett , S. Suleyman Kahraman , Lihong V. Wang

We numerically study the spin flip in the Frisch$\unicode{x2013}$Segr\`e experiment, the first multi-stage Stern$\unicode{x2013}$Gerlach experiment, within the context of the novel co-quantum dynamics theory. We model the middle stage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Kelvin Titimbo , David C. Garrett , S. Süleyman Kahraman , Zhe He , Lihong V. Wang

The multi-stage Stern$\unicode{x2013}$Gerlach experiment conducted by Frisch and Segr\`e includes two cascaded quantum measurements with a nonadiabatic flipper in between. The Frisch and Segr\`e experiment has been modeled analytically by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 S. Süleyman Kahraman , Kelvin Titimbo , Zhe He , Jung-Tsung Shen , Lihong V. Wang

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

A dynamical model for the collapse of the wave function in a quantum measurement process is proposed by considering the interaction of a quantum system (spin-1/2) with a macroscopic quantum apparatus interacting with an environment in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Venugopalan , Deepak Kumar , R. Ghosh

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

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

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 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

Most textbooks introduce the concept of spin by presenting the Stern-Gerlach experiment with the aid of Newtonian atomic trajectories. However, to understand how both spatial and spin degrees of freedom evolve over time and how the latter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 K. M. Fonseca-Romero

The Stern-Gerlach experiment has played a central role in the discovery of spin angular momentum. It can also play a pivotal role in teaching the formalism of quantum mechanics using a concrete example involving a finite-dimensional Hilbert…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-02-23 Guangtian Zhu , Chandralekha Singh

Spin is an important quantum degree of freedom in relativistic quantum information theory. This paper provides a first-principles derivation of the observable corresponding to a Stern-Gerlach measurement with relativistic particle velocity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 Matthew C. Palmer , Maki Takahashi , Hans F. Westman

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…

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

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

This article compares treatments of the Stern-Gerlach experiment across different physical theories, building up to a novel analysis of electron spin measurement in the context of classical Dirac field theory. Modeling the electron as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Charles T. Sebens

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

We present a comprehensive simulation study of the Newtonian and quantum model of a Stern-Gerlach experiment with cold neutrons.By solving Newton's equation of motion and the time-dependent Pauli equation, for a wide range of uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Hans De Raedt , Fengping Jin , Kristel Michielsen

We analyze the Stern-Gerlach experiment in phase space with the help of the matrix Wigner function, which includes the spin degree of freedom. Such analysis allows for an intuitive visualization of the quantum dynamics of the apparatus. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Pablo Gomis , A. Pérez
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