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Spin ½ on the Bloch sphere

A spin-½ state lives on the unit sphere: north = |↑⟩, south = |↓⟩, equator = equal-weight superpositions with relative phase running 0 → 2π around the circle. Pauli operators rotate the arrow; the Hamiltonian Ĥ = -ωσ̂z/2 precesses it.

|ψ⟩ = 1·|↑⟩