Multiple Perspectives on the Stern-Gerlach Experiment

Friedel Weinert

Jeremy Bernstein

We present a history and analysis of this experiment.

H. Schmidt‐Böcking, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Hans Jürgen Lüdde +3 more

R. Grossi, Lucas L. Brugger, B. F. Rizzuti +1 more

Inspired by the one-hundredth anniversary of the seminal works of Stern and Gerlach, our contribution is a proposal of how to use their famous experiment in a more contemporary perspective. Our main idea is to re-cast the experiment in the modern language of prepare-and-measure scenarios. By doing so, it is possible to connect geometric and algebraic aspects of the space of states with the physical space. We also discuss possible simulations of the SG experiment as well as some experimental properties of the experiment revealed at the statistical level. Merging a more modern perspective with a paradigmatic experiment, we hope this paper can serve as an entry door for quantum information theory and the.

Hou Yu-de

Stern-Gerlach experiment was an important experiment in the 20th century.Stern got the Nobel Prize because of this achievement.Recently,the author found some sources about Stern-Gerlach experiment,which show much difference from old understanding of the experiment.By analyzing and comparing the sources with the old understanding of the experiment,the author gets some new insights on the process from designing to making achievements of the experiment.