The Spinning Electron

This video is a contribution for the “Dance your Ph.D.“ contest of Science magazine. In the video I’m dancing an electron, which heavily interacts with a laser, or more precisely with a standing wave of light formed by two counter propagating laser beams of equal intensity. After the interaction the initially upwards pointing electron spin is tilted, like in my PhD thesis. Read more: PhD Thesis Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043601 (2012)