What happens if we pass a particle through several Stern-Gerlach devices (say, oriented along x- and z-axes) without measuring the state of the system between them? My initial assumption has been that this is equivalent to measuring $\hat{s_z} \hat{s_x}$, but this operator is not hermitean, and hence doesn't correspond to a quantum mechanical observation.
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