Contradiction of the DENSITY MATRIX notion in quantum mechanics

Abstract

It is shown that description of a nonpolarized neutron beam by density matrix is contradictory. Density matrix is invariant with respect to choice of quantization axis, while experimental devices can discriminate between different quantization axes.

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