Abstract:We consider the mean spin direction (MSD) of superpositions of two spin coherent states (SCS) | ± μ , and superpositions of |μ and |μ * with a relative phase. We find that the azimuthal angle exhibits a π transition for both states when we vary the relative phase. The spin squeezing of the states, and the bosonic counterpart of the mean spin direction are also discussed. c Versita Warsaw and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. All rights reserved.Keywords: spin squeezing, mean spin direction PACS (2006): 03.65.Ud, 42.50.Dv Some investigations have partially focused on squeezing in spin systems [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] in recent years due to its practical applications e.g., in the fields of high-precision atomic clocks [4] and interferometers [3]. Also, it was found that the spin squeezing is closely related to quantum entanglement [17][18][19][20][21][22], which plays an important role in quantum information and quantum computation. For an ensemble of two-level system, spin squeezing implies entanglement. At the same time, it was shown that a single spin-like system with S greater than 1/2 can also manifest entanglement [19][20][21], moreover, the single- *