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Testing Gravity-Driven Collapse of the Wavefunction via Cosmogenic Neutrinos

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It is pointed out that the Diosi-Penrose ansatz for gravity-induced quantum state reduction can be tested by observing oscillations in the flavor ratios of neutrinos originated at cosmological distances. Since such a test would be almost free of environmental decoherence, testing the ansatz by means of a next generation neutrino detector such as IceCube would be much cleaner than by experiments proposed so far involving superpositions of macroscopic systems. The proposed microscopic test would also examine the universality of superposition principle at unprecedented cosmological scales.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0503001,
  title  = {Testing Gravity-Driven Collapse of the Wavefunction via Cosmogenic Neutrinos},
  author = {Joy Christian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0503001},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages; RevTeX4; Essentially the version published in PRL