Quantum-Mechanical Analysis of a Longitudinal Stern-Gerlach Effect
Abstract
We present the results of a rigorous quantum-mechanical calculation of the propagation of electrons through an inhomogeneous magnetic field with axial symmetry. A complete spin polarization of the beam is demonstrated assuming that a Landau eigenstate can be inserted into the field. This is in contrast with the semiclassical situation, where the spin splitting is blurred.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4508
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvL..86.4508G