Category: Learnings
When you expect one thing, but see something else – The Stern-Gerlach Experiment
Susskind and Freidman tell us two aspects of the quantum world stand out as fundamental: Harmonic oscillators, well-known in classical physics, are readily expressed in quantum terms. Whereas spin – quantised intrinsic angular momentum of particles – is non-obvious and “strange” to classical physics. Yet harnessing spin is the key to many quantum technologies. The…