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This chapter has little to do with the geometric property of elementary particles called spin. Historically spin 1/2 provided the first basic example of a “two-level quantum system”, so that till now those simplest of all quantum systems are introduced to students of physics with the help of “fictitious spins”. The truth is, that two-level systems (or spins) play in quantum probability the role of Bernoulli random variables. As in the classical case, they may be considered the cornerstone of probability theory.
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Meyer, PA. (1993). Spin. In: Quantum Probability for Probabilists. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21558-6_2
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