A computer-simulated Stern-Gerlach laboratory
arXiv:1502.07036 · doi:10.1119/1.17172
Abstract
We describe an interactive computer program 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 non-science majors in a general interest course to physics majors in an upper-level quantum mechanics course. We give suggested homework exercises using the program at various levels.
8 pages, 9 figures
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