A stochastic description of a spin-1/2 particle in a magnetic field
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 15 (7), 2053-2061
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/15/7/016
Abstract
The authors develop the stochastic mechanics of a non-relativistic quantum particle with spin 1/2 in a possibly inhomogeneous magnetic field. They do not make any assumption about the inner structure of the particle, and treat spin components as discrete random variables.Keywords
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