1997/06/23 by John Ellis, Ellis, John, N. E. Mavromatos +3
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9706051
17 pages LATEX, 1 macro (sprocl.sty) required. Contribution to the Symposium on Flavour-Changing Neutral Currents: Present and Future Studies, UCLA (USA), February 1997
arxiv created 1997/06/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We discuss recent experimental evidence of decoherence in a laboratory mesoscopic system in a cavity, from which we draw analogies with the decoherence that we argue is induced by microscopic quantum-gravity fluctuations in the space-time background. We emphasize the parallel rôles played in both cases by dissipation through non-trivial vacuum fluctuations that trigger the collapse of an initially coherent quantum state. We review a phenomenological parametrization of possible effects of this kind in the neutral kaon system, where they would induce CPT violation, and describe some epxerimental tests.