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QM Spins Program
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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.
Feature Missing
Author: MuckrakerW M 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 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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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7011">Christian, Wolfgang. "QM Spins Program." Version 1.0.</a>
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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 December 8, 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 8 December 2024).
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Christian, Wolfgang. QM Spins Program. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 8 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7011&DocID=344>.
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@misc{
Author = "Wolfgang Christian",
Title = {QM Spins Program},
Month = {May},
Year = {2008}
}
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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. relation by Mario Belloni
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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. relation by Mario Belloni
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