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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: How many spots are produced from Stern-Gerlach apparatus that rotates?
« on: Yesterday at 15:57:51 »However the question is what do you mean by "slowly rotating" the device? I can imagine a magnetic field that rotates with distance along the z axis, or in practice a series of SGs each slightly rotated with respect to the previous one, so if we ignore the essential divergence of the beams at each point, we'd get a circular distribution at the exit.IMO, it depends on how strong the magnetic field divergence is, and the rate of change of the SG apparatus axis along the path of the atoms.
If the divergence is strong enough, and the rate of change of the axis is slow enough, then the final result is two dots along the axis at the end of the SG apparatus.
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