An electron's spin state is

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Quantum Mechanics: From the Photon to the Hydrogen Atom, Ch Spin one-half, the Pauli matrices and two-level systems

Problem

An electron's spin state is χ=113(23i)\chi = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{13}}\begin{pmatrix}2\\ 3i\end{pmatrix}. Find the probability of each outcome of a measurement of SzS_z, and check they add to one.

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