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<div class="csl-entry">Palge, V., Dunningham, J., Hasegawa, Y., & Pfeifer, C. (2025). Proposal for an experiment to verify Wigner’s rotation at non-relativistic speeds with massive spin-1/2 particles. <i>Physics Letters A</i>, <i>544</i>, Article 130490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2025.130490</div>
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0375-9601
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/223322
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The Wigner rotation of quantum particles with spin is one of the fascinating consequences of interplay between special relativity and quantum mechanics. In this paper we show that a direct experimental verification of Wigner's rotation is in principle accessible in the regime of non-relativistic velocities at ∼10³ ms⁻¹ for massive spin-1/2 particles. We discuss how the experiment could be carried out in a laboratory using cold neutrons. The measurement at non-relativistic velocities becomes possible through letting neutrons propagate for a sufficiently long time because Wigner rotation is a cumulative effect.
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Physics Letters A
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neutrons
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Proposal for an experiment to verify Wigner's rotation at non-relativistic speeds with massive spin-1/2 particles
