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Experimental bounds on linear-friction dissipative collapse models from levitated optomechanics

Quantum Physics 2024-04-15 v2

Abstract

Collapse models constitute an alternative to quantum mechanics that solve the well-know quantum measurement problem. In this framework, a novel approach to include dissipation in collapse models has been recently proposed, and awaits experimental validation. Our work establishes experimental bounds on the so-constructed linear-friction dissipative Di\'osi-Penrose (dDP) and Continuous Spontaneous localisation (dCSL) models by exploiting experiments in the field of levitated optomechanics. Our results in the dDP case exclude collapse temperatures below 1013 10^{-13}K and 6×1012 6 \times 10^{-12}K respectively for values of the localisation length smaller than 10610^{-6}m and 10810^{-8}m. In the dCSL case the entire parameter space is excluded for values of the temperature lower than 6×1096 \times 10^{-9}K.

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@article{arxiv.2401.04665,
  title  = {Experimental bounds on linear-friction dissipative collapse models from levitated optomechanics},
  author = {Giovanni Di Bartolomeo and Matteo Carlesso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04665},
  year   = {2024}
}
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