{ "id": "1208.5764", "version": "v4", "published": "2012-08-26T04:37:06.000Z", "updated": "2014-11-01T13:31:14.000Z", "title": "Electronic Spin: Abstract Mathematical or Real Physical Phenomenon", "authors": [ "S K Pandey", "R. S. Chakravarti" ], "comment": "7 pages", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "In the description of electron spin obtained through the conventional Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the concrete picture of rotation was replaced by an abstract mathematical representation; visualization or visualisability was entirely lost. The work described here takes a step towards restoring this.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2013-03-04T12:50:22.000Z", "comment": "8 pages, references added, corrected version with more mathematical exploration", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v4", "updated": "2014-11-01T13:31:14.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "real physical phenomenon", "electronic spin", "conventional copenhagen interpretation", "electron spin", "quantum mechanics" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1208.5764P" } } }