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5.—Mott Scattering and Stern-Gerlach Effect*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

P. S. Farago
P. S. Farago
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh.
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Synopsis

It is shown that, from an operational point of view, the production and detection of spin-polarised electrons by Mott scattering is equivalent to the performance of a Stern-Gerlach type experiment with heavy spin-one-half particles. The argument is based on standard quantum mechanical formalism using density matrices and Stokes vectors for the description of polarised assemblies of particles.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , 1972 , pp. 51 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1972

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