Multi-stage Stern-Gerlach experiment modeled (with additional appendices)

2022/08/12 by Lihong V. Wang, Wang, Lihong V. · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.06471

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University)

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Abstract

In the classic multi-stage Stern-Gerlach experiment conducted by Frisch and Segrè, the Majorana (Landau-Zener) and Rabi formulae diverge afar from the experimental observation while the physical mechanism for electron-spin collapse remains unidentified. Here, introducing the physical co-quantum concept provides a plausible physical mechanism and predicts the experimental observation in absolute units without fitting (i.e., no parameters adjusted) with a p-value less than one per million, which is the probability that the co-quantum theory happens to match the experimental observation purely by chance. Further, the co-quantum concept is corroborated by statistically reproducing exactly the wave function, density operator, and uncertainty relation for electron spin in Stern-Gerlach experiments.

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