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Robert J. Nemiroff
Michigan Tech
Physics X: About This Course
Radioactive decay
o A particle tunnels out of a nucleus
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
o measure tunneling electron current between a needle and
a surface.
Enzymes
o a factor in reaction rates(!)
QUANTUM TUNNELING
1. A continuum of deflections.
2. Only two discrete deflections show up, corresponding to "spin up"
and "spin down" for neutral particles.
STERN- GERLACH EXPERIMENT
Now, one of the beams from the previous experiment is sent into a
second Stern-Gerlach machine. All of these particles have "spin up",
but now the SG machine is on its side and can only deflect the particles
left or right. What happens?