Measurement of the spin-rotation coupling in neutron polarimetry

作者:Demirel Buelent*; Sponar Stephan; Hasegawa Yuji
来源:New Journal of Physics, 2015, 17(2): 023065.
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023065

摘要

The effect of spin-rotation coupling is measured for the first time with neutrons. The coupling of spin with the angular velocity of a rotating spin turner can be observed as a phase shift in a neutron polarimeter set-up. After the neutron's spin is rotated by 2 pi through a rotating magnetic field, different phase shifts are induced for 'up' and 'down' spin eigenstates. This phase difference results in the rotation of the neutron's spin-vector, which turns out to depend solely on the frequency of the rotation of the magnetic field. The experimental results agree well with the solutions acquired by the Pauli-Schrodinger equation.

  • 出版日期2015-2-24