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Spin - orbit pendulum: the microscopic Stern - Gerlach effect

1995/05/31 by P. Rozmej, P Rozmej, R. Arvieu +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/29/7/015

4 pages, LaTeX (precisely RevTeX), attached 4 complicated Postscript figures , Paper submitted to Phys.Rev.A

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Abstract

The motion of a particle with a spin in spherical harmonic oscillator potential with spin-orbit interaction is studied. We have focus our attention on spatial motion of wave packets, giving a description complementary to motion of spin discussed already in [1]. The particular initial conditions studied here lead to the most transparent formulas and can be treated analytically. A strong analogy with the Stern-Gerlach experiment is suggested. [1] R.Arvieu and P.Rozmej, Phys.Rev.A50 (1994) 4376.

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