Lecture 6 Quantum mechanical spin University （6自旋量子力学大学讲座）.pdfVIP

Lecture 6 Quantum mechanical spin Background Until now, we have focused on quantum mechanics of particles which are “featureless” – carrying no internal degrees of freedom. A relativistic formulation of quantum mechanics (due to Dirac and covered later in course) reveals that quantum particles can exhibit an intrinsic angular momentum component known as spin. However, the discovery of quantum mechanical spin predates its theoretical understanding, and appeared as a result of an ingeneous experiment due to Stern a