Energy Shifts of a Spin-Polarised Torsion Pendulum in an Axial Background
This paper examines how a macroscopic spin-polarised pendulum converts a torque sensitivity into a per-spin energy limit and an axial torsion limit. The system considered is a torsion pendulum carrying of order 10^23 polarised electron spins, and the observable is pendulum torque and the corresponding energy shift per spin. Evaluating the ordinary behaviour of the system and the spin-torsion contribution under explicit assumptions about polarisation and uniformity, and inverting the comparison at the stated laboratory precision, gives a quantitative bound rather than a qualitative assertion of smallness. The computed record is: N_polarised = 1.000e+23; torque_sensitivity_Nm = 1.000e-16; energy_per_spin_J = 1.000e-39; torsion_bound_per_m = 3.163e-14; dipole_energy_J_at_bound = 1.000e-39. The torsion-related contribution is far below the level that would alter the ordinary behaviour of the system at current precision, and the value that would have produced a visible residual is stated so that future improvements can be assessed against it directly. No new measurement is reported. This study is simulated and computed from stated assumptions, not measured.
Authors
- William Alexander Aldred (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1215-577X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24133924
- Primary Topic
- Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00