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An Indication From the Magnitude of CP Violations that Gravitation is a Possible Cause of Wave-Function Collapse

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v7 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider experimental evidence for the hypothesis that the Planck energy, Ep1019GeVE_p \approx 10^{19}GeV, sets the scale ϵ\epsilon at which wave function collapse causes deviations from linear Schr\"{o}dinger evolution. With a few plausible assumptions about the collapse process, we first show that the observed CP violation in KLK_L decay implies a lower bound on ϵ\epsilon remarkably close to EpE_p. If the bound is saturated, the entire CP violation is due to collapse and a prediction made that the branching ratio for CP violation in the B meson decay will be γ105\gamma \approx 10^{-5}. We then show that the assumptions are consequences of a simple non-linear, stochastic modification of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with ϵ\epsilon setting the scale of the non-linearity.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9710042,
  title  = {An Indication From the Magnitude of CP Violations that Gravitation is a Possible Cause of Wave-Function Collapse},
  author = {Daniel I. Fivel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9710042},
  year   = {2007}
}

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