Spin-one transverse measurement after axial precession

ID: spin-one-transverse-measurement-after-axial-precession

Prepare the spin coherent state and evolve with Hamiltonian operator for time . In the descending- basis of the spin-one angular momentum matrices, the initial vector is and the evolved vector is , where . The orthonormal basis has vectors , and . Taking their inner products with the evolved vector gives probability amplitudes , and . Their squared moduli give the Born rule probabilities in the title. At integer half-turns , the outcome is deterministically .

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