The Stern-Gerlach experiment with Silver atoms with one outermost $1S$ electron is supposed to be the definite experiment showing that electrons have spin in two-valued form as $+\frac{1}{2}$ and $-\frac{1}{2}$.
Standard Quantum Mechanics StdQM predicts that a noble gas like Helium in ground state with its two electrons of different spin in a $1S^2$ spherically symmetric configuration with spin $0=\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}$, will not give any result in a Stern-Gerlach experiment.
StdQM theory has been so convincing that no Stern-Gerlach experiment with a noble gas is reported in the literature. ChatGPT informs that if such an experiment gave a positive result like with Silver, then the whole theory of StdQM would have to be rewritten.
But no experiment like that has evidently been performed. Why? That would be a good test of the validity of the theory, right?
If we now turn to RealQM, we have that the two electrons of Helium in ground state occupying two half-spaces separated by a plane through the kernel with a combined electron charge distribution, which is not spherically symmetric with charge concentration on both sides of the plane with polarisation effect.
It is thus according to RealQM thinkable that Helium could give a positive result in the Stern-Gerlach experiment. What do you think?
Inlägg
I suspect experiments like this would detect any anomaly:
SvaraRaderahttps://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/7/12/1818/5899767
"Only atoms at the m = 0 level can pass through a Stern–Gerlach magnetic field "