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QM Spins Program
written by Wolfgang Christian
The QM Spins program simulates the quantum-mechanical measurement of spin-1/2 and spin-1 particles.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the qm_spins.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.  The default simulation shows the result of measuring the z component of spin on a beam of spin-1/2 particles with a random (or statistical) mixture of spin orientations.  Additional initial states and other measurements can be specified using the Design and/or Initialize menu items.  

QM Spins is one of 5 Open Source Physics programs that model quantum mechanical measurement.  The original program, Spins, was written for the Macintosh by Daniel Schroeder and Thomas Moore and was then ported to Java by David McIntyre.  We have made extensive modifications to the Java version of the SPINS program.  Additional Open Source Physics programs for quantum mechanics are available.  They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Superposition.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Quantum Physics
- Foundations and Measurements
- General
- Spin and Finite Dimensional Systems
- Upper Undergraduate
- Graduate/Professional
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
= Lecture/Presentation
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- Professional/Practitioners
- Educators
- application/exe
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© 2008 Wolfgang Christian. Details available at http://www.opensourcephysics.org/misc/copyright.html.
PACSs:
01.50.hv
03.65.-w
07.05.Tp
Keywords:
OSP, Open Source Physics, eigenstate, measurement, mixture, quantum mechanics, spin, spin 1, spin 1/2, superposition
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created May 8, 2008 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:
May 19, 2008 by Mario Belloni
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May 1, 2008
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Feature Missing

Author: MuckrakerW M
Posted: April 14, 2015 at 11:58PM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

This is a nice program for studying spin with the option to build your own simulated Stern-Gerlach devices and interferometry. However it lacks a snapshot feature for illustration purposes. I'd like to add SG devices and simulated experiments to my blogs yet it's not possible without a snapshot feature in order to save it as a image file.

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Re: Feature Missing

Author: Bruce, ComPADRE Dir
Posted:

It's not built-in, but on Windows machines this can be done with "Alt-PrtScn" or the "Snipping Tool" which provides more options, and on Mac this can be done with cmd-shift-4.

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W. Christian, Computer Program QM SPINS PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7011&DocID=344).
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W. Christian, Computer Program QM SPINS PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7011&DocID=344>.
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Christian, W. (2008). QM Spins Program (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7011&DocID=344
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Christian, Wolfgang. "QM Spins Program." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7011&DocID=344 (accessed 28 March 2024).
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Christian, Wolfgang. QM Spins Program. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 28 Mar. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7011&DocID=344>.
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QM Spins Program:

Is Based On SPINS Java Homepage

The QM Spins program is based on the SPINS program.  The QM Spins program includes additional functionality not in the original program.

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Is the Basis For Open Source Physics Curricular Material for Quantum Mechanics

The paper Open Source Physics Curricular Material for Quantum Mechanics describes in detail the QM Spins Program.

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Is Part Of Spins Package

The QM Spins Program is used by the Spins Package's curricular materials for the teaching of quantum mechanics.

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