The Stern-Gerlach experiment revisited
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- Autoren
- Horst Schmidt-Böcking
- Lothar Schmidt
- Hans Jürgen Lüdde
- Wolfgang Trageser
- Alan Templeton
- Tilman Sauer
- Sammlungen
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- ISSN
- 2102-6459
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 4-5
- Zeitschrift
- The European physical journal : H
- Schlüsselwörter
- 530 Physik
- 530 Physics
- Sprache
- eng
- Paginierung
- Seiten: 327 - 364
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2016
- Herausgeber
- Springer
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2016-70053-2
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2020
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- Public
- Titel
- The Stern-Gerlach experiment revisited
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 41
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- Autoren
- Horst Schmidt-Boecking
- Lothar Schmidt
- Hans Juergen Luedde
- Wolfgang Trageser
- Alan Templeton
- Tilman Sauer
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000390003200003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1140/epjh/e2016-70053-2
- eISSN
- 2102-6467
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- ISSN
- 2102-6459
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 4-5
- Zeitschrift
- EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL H
- Paginierung
- 327 - 364
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2016
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- Published
- Titel
- The Stern-Gerlach experiment revisited
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- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 41
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- Autoren
- Horst Schmidt-Böcking
- Lothar Schmidt
- Hans Jürgen Lüdde
- Wolfgang Trageser
- Alan Templeton
- Tilman Sauer
- DOI
- 10.1140/epjh/e2016-70053-2
- eISSN
- 2102-6467
- ISSN
- 2102-6459
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 4-5
- Zeitschrift
- The European Physical Journal H
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2016
- Paginierung
- 327 - 364
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2016
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2016-70053-2
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2023
- Titel
- The Stern-Gerlach experiment revisited
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 41
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- Abstract
- 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 results of the SGE for the development of modern quantum physics and chemistry. The SGE provided the first direct experimental evidence for angular momentum quantization in the quantum world and thus also for the existence of directional quantization of all angular momenta in the process of measurement. It measured for the first time a ground state property of an atom, it produced for the first time a `spin-polarized' atomic beam, it almost revealed the electron spin. The SGE was the first fully successful molecular beam experiment with high momentum-resolution by beam measurements in vacuum. This technique provided a new kinematic microscope with which inner atomic or nuclear properties could be investigated. The original SGE is described together with early attempts by Einstein, Ehrenfest, Heisenberg, and others to understand directional quantization in the SGE. Heisenberg's and Einstein's proposals of an improved multi-stage SGE are presented. The first realization of these proposals by Stern, Phipps, Frisch and Segr\`e is described. The set-up suggested by Einstein can be considered an anticipation of a Rabi-apparatus. Recent theoretical work is mentioned in which the directional quantization process and possible interference effects of the two different spin states are investigated. In full agreement with the results of the new quantum theory directional quantization appears as a general and universal feature of quantum measurements. One experimental example for such directional quantization in scattering processes is shown. Last not least, the early history of the `almost' discovery of the electron spin in the SGE is revisited.
- Autoren
- Horst Schmidt-Böcking
- Lothar Schmidt
- Hans Jürgen Lüdde
- Wolfgang Trageser
- Tilman Sauer
- Autoren-URL
- http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09311v1
- Zeitschrift
- Eur. Phys. J. H
- Schlüsselwörter
- physics.hist-ph
- physics.hist-ph
- Notes
- 50pp, 17 figs
- Paginierung
- 327 - 364
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2016
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2016-70053-2
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2016
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2016
- Titel
- The Stern-Gerlach Experiment Revisited
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 41
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1609.09311v1.pdf
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