Tutorial Exercises for
Measurement of Quantum-mechanical Spin-1/2 Systems

 

Tutorial Follow Up Questions

~~1. What did you learn about performing measurements on quantum systems?  Does a single measurement necessarily tell you what state the system was in prior to measurement?  Why of Why not?  If possible give an example from the tutorial simulations.   

 

~~2. What is special about eigenstates of an operator as compared to superpositions of eigenstates?  Give an example from the tutorial simulations.