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Decoherence time and spin measurement in the Stern-Gerlach experiment

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We present an analytical solution to the decoherence time for the spin measurement and the diagonalization of the density matrix of spin variables in the Stern-Gerlach experiment. This solution requires the calculation of the Pauli spinor with a spatial extension, which is not found in quantum mechanics textbooks. With this full spinor and the measured position of the particle we demonstrate the three postulates of quantum measurement: quantization, spectral decomposition and wave function reduction. The transition from a quantum superposition to a statistical mixture is well explained in this way, but not the single result that always emerges from a particular experiment. The spinor spatial extension also allows the introduction of the de Broglie-Bohm trajectories which give a very simple explanation of the particles' impact.
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hal-00938521 , version 1 (16-05-2014)

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Michel Gondran, Alexandre Gondran, Abdel Kenoufi. Decoherence time and spin measurement in the Stern-Gerlach experiment. AIP 2011, American Institue of Physics Conference on General Problems of Quantum Mechanics, Jun 2011, Växjö, Sweden. pp 116-120, ⟨10.1063/1.3688960⟩. ⟨hal-00938521⟩
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