Internal spin angular momentum

Stern-Gerlach experiment

The Stern-Gerlach experiment involves passing a beam of spin- particles through an inhomogeneous magnetic field

experiencing a force

The -component is averaged out due to Larmor precession, while the -component will split the beam into streams due to quantized spin.1

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Footnotes

  1. 2018. Introduction to quantum mechanics, §4.4.4, pp. 174–175 ↩