A computer-simulated Stern–Gerlach laboratory
A computer-simulated Stern–Gerlach laboratory
An interactive computer program is described that simulates Stern–Gerlach measurements on spin-1/2 and spin-1 particles. The user can design and run experiments involving successive spin measurements, illustrating incompatible observables, interference, and time evolution. The program can be used by students at a variety of levels, from nonscience majors in a …