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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: How many spots are produced from Stern-Gerlach apparatus that rotates?
« on: 20/03/2024 09:50:15 »
In a single Stern-Gerlach apparatus, a beam of electrons is divided in two, you don't recombine the beams but you can show that sending either part of the split beam--each is spin polarized but oppositely--through a second doesn't conserve spin states.
If you have a spin up polarized half-beam, and it goes through a second apparatus which is rotated by some angle, maybe perpendicular, the spin up state doesn't distribute like in Boolean logic. If you build up a sequence and try to determine spin states for each beam you can't use the "previous state", you can't build what's known as a distributive lattice with the logic.
If you have a spin up polarized half-beam, and it goes through a second apparatus which is rotated by some angle, maybe perpendicular, the spin up state doesn't distribute like in Boolean logic. If you build up a sequence and try to determine spin states for each beam you can't use the "previous state", you can't build what's known as a distributive lattice with the logic.