Data di Pubblicazione:
2015
Citazione:
Dissipative Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model / A. Smirne, A. Bassi. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 5(2015), pp. 12518.1-12518.9. [10.1038/srep12518]
Abstract:
Collapse models explain the absence of quantum superpositions at the macroscopic scale, while giving practically the same predictions as quantum mechanics for microscopic systems. The Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model is the most refined and studied among collapse models. A well-known problem of this model, and of similar ones, is the steady and unlimited increase of the energy induced by the collapse noise. Here we present the dissipative version of the CSL model, which guarantees a finite energy during the entire system's evolution, thus making a crucial step toward a realistic energy-conserving collapse model. This is achieved by introducing a non-linear stochastic modification of the Schrödinger equation, which represents the action of a dissipative finite-temperature collapse noise. The possibility to introduce dissipation within collapse models in a consistent way will have relevant impact on the experimental investigations of the CSL model, and therefore also on the testability of the quantum superposition principle.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Quantum Mechanics; quantum superpositions; collapse models
Elenco autori:
A. Smirne, A. Bassi
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