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| author | Palge, Veiko Dunningham, Jacob Hasegawa, Yuji Pfeifer, Christian |
| author_facet | Palge, Veiko Dunningham, Jacob Hasegawa, Yuji Pfeifer, Christian |
| contents | The Wigner rotation of quantum particles with spin is one of the fascinating consequences of interplay between special relativity and quantum mechanics. In this paper we show that a direct experimental verification of Wigner's rotation is in principle accessible in the regime of non-relativistic velocities at $\sim 10^3$ m/s for massive spin-$1/2$ particles. We discuss how the experiment could be carried out in a laboratory using cold neutrons. The measurement at non-relativistic velocities becomes possible through letting neutrons propagate for a sufficiently long time because Wigner rotation is a cumulative effect. |
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| spellingShingle | Proposal for an experiment to verify Wigner's rotation at non-relativistic speeds with massive spin-$1/2$ particles Palge, Veiko Dunningham, Jacob Hasegawa, Yuji Pfeifer, Christian Quantum Physics The Wigner rotation of quantum particles with spin is one of the fascinating consequences of interplay between special relativity and quantum mechanics. In this paper we show that a direct experimental verification of Wigner's rotation is in principle accessible in the regime of non-relativistic velocities at $\sim 10^3$ m/s for massive spin-$1/2$ particles. We discuss how the experiment could be carried out in a laboratory using cold neutrons. The measurement at non-relativistic velocities becomes possible through letting neutrons propagate for a sufficiently long time because Wigner rotation is a cumulative effect. |
| title | Proposal for an experiment to verify Wigner's rotation at non-relativistic speeds with massive spin-$1/2$ particles |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03389 |