A PHASE-SPACE DESCRIPTION OF THE STERN-GERLACH PHENOMENON

Authors
GRACIABONDIA JM MARSHALL TW SANTOS E
Citation
Jm. Graciabondia et al., A PHASE-SPACE DESCRIPTION OF THE STERN-GERLACH PHENOMENON, Physics letters. A, 183(1), 1993, pp. 19-23
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
183
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
19 - 23
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1993)183:1<19:APDOTS>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
By expressing the Pauli-Schrodinger evolution of a beam of spin-1/2 pa rticles in the Wigner-Moyal phase-space representation, we show the cl ose relationships which exist between four paradoxical aspects of the evolution, namely spatial separation, spin separation, cross-beam cohe rence and negative probability.