New Avenues for Testing Collapse Models

2019/09/30 by Andrea Vinante, Hendrik Ulbricht
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Function (biology) #Interferometry #Matter wave #Optics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46777-7_29

published in Fundamental theories of physics, 423-436 (Springer International Publishing) · Submitted as a chapter of "Do wave functions jump? Perspectives on the work of GC Ghirardi", Editors: V. Allori, A. Bassi, D. Dürr & N. Zanghì; Springer International Publishing

arxiv created 2019/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2020/10/02 · arxiv updated 2021/04/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present a concise outlook on future experimental tests of spontaneous wave function collapse models. We discuss tests based on force noise measurements in ultrasensitive mechanical systems, spontaneous heating in ultracold solid matter and atoms, matter-wave interferometry, and ultrahigh precision measurements.

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