Chapter 8: Q24CQ (page 339)
The total-spin singlet state for two electrons has one spin up and one down, but one of the triplet states does. too. What is the difference?
Short Answer
The difference between singlet and triplet state,

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Chapter 8: Q24CQ (page 339)
The total-spin singlet state for two electrons has one spin up and one down, but one of the triplet states does. too. What is the difference?
The difference between singlet and triplet state,

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To investigate the claim that lowerimplies lower f energy. consider a simple case: lithium. which has twoelectrons and alonevalence electron.
(a)First find the approximate orbit radius, in terms of. of anelectron orbiting three protons. (Refer to Section 7.8.)
(b) Assuming theelectrons shield/cancel out two of the protons in lithium's nucleus, the orbit radius of anelectron orbiting a net charge of just.
(c) Argue that lithium's valence electron should certainly have lower energy in a 25 state than in astale. (Refer Figure 7.15.)
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Figureshows the Stern-Gerlach apparatus. It reveals that spin-particles have just two possible spin states. Assume that when these two beams are separated inside the channel (though still near its centreline). we can choose to block one or the other for study. Now a second such apparatus is added after the first. Their channels are aligned. But the second one is rotated about the-axis by an angle \(\phi\) from the first. Suppose we block the spin-down beam in the first apparatus, allowing only the spin-up beam into the second. There is no wave function for spin. but we can still talk of a probability amplitude, which we square to give a probability. After the first apparatus' spin-up beam passes through the second apparatus, the probability amplitude iswhere the arrows indicate the two possible findings for spin in the second apparatus.
(a) What is the probability of finding the particle spin up in the second apparatus? Of finding it spin down? Argue that these probabilities make sense individually for representative values ofand their sum is also sensible.
(b) By contrasting this spin probability amplitude with a spatial probability amplitude. Such as. Argue that although the arbitrariness ofgives the spin cases an infinite number of solves. it is still justified to refer to it as a "two-state system," while the spatial case is an infinite-state system.
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