Coherence and Entanglement in a Stern-Gerlach experiment

dc.creatorde Oliveira, Thiago R.
dc.creatorCaldeira, A. O.
dc.date2006-08-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:26:31Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:26:31Z
dc.descriptionWe give a simple example of the tight connection between entanglement and coherence for pure bipartite systems showing the double role played by entanglement; it allows for the creation of superpositions of macroscopic objects but at the same time makes subsystems lose their quantum mechanical coherence. For this we study the time evolution of the spin coherence in the Stern-Gerlach (SG) experiment. We also show that, contrary to the naive intuition, the spin coherence is lost before the two beams become separated in the spatial coordinates.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0608192
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0608192
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/117105
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleCoherence and Entanglement in a Stern-Gerlach experiment
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