Timeline for Thought Experiment: Force on magnets in a Stern Gerlach Experiment
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 3:48 | vote | accept | ejang | ||
| Feb 10, 2016 at 21:17 | comment | added | Mark Mitchison | This is the correct answer, I don't understand the downvote. The magnet's state after the interaction is indistinguishable from the state before, hence there is no additional information gained by measuring it. In particular there is no "which-way" information that would destroy interference (the OP's picture is essentially a Mach-Zehnder interferometer but with SG apparatus). | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 8:40 | comment | added | alanf | No. The probability of detecting a difference is small because the probability of such a difference is small. | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 16:58 | comment | added | BMS | Is this argument based on the limits of technology? | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 15:20 | history | answered | alanf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |