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Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) is one possible explanation for dynamically induced collapse of the wave-function during a quantum measurement. The collapse is mediated by a stochastic non-linear modification of the Schrodinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Sayantani Bera , Bhawna Motwani , Tejinder P. Singh , Hendrik Ulbricht

Spontaneous wavefunction collapse models offer a solution to the quantum measurement problem, by modifying the Schr\"odinger equation with nonlinear and stochastic terms. The Continuous Spontaneous Localisation (CSL) model is the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Davide Giordano Ario Altamura , Andrea Vinante , Matteo Carlesso

Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model of Quantum Mechanics modifies Schr\"{o}dinger equation by adding non-linear stochastic terms due to which the total energy of a system increases with a constant rate which is proportional to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Suratna Das , Kinjalk Lochan , Angelo Bassi

Wavefunction collapse models modify Schr\"odinger's equation so that it describes the collapse of a superposition of macroscopically distinguishable states as a dynamical process. This provides a basis for the resolution of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Daniel Bedingham , Hendrik Ulbricht

Among the open problems in fundamental physics, few are as conceptually significant as the measurement problem in Quantum Mechanics. One of the proposed solutions to this problem is the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Martin Miguel Ocampo , Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami , Gabriel León

The Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model is the best known and studied among collapse models, which modify quantum mechanics and identify the fundamental reasons behind the unobservability of quantum superpositions at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Matteo Carlesso , Mauro Paternostro , Hendrik Ulbricht , Andrea Vinante , Angelo Bassi

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Andrea Smirne , Angelo Bassi

The Continuous Spontaneous Localisation (CSL) model is the most studied among collapse models, which describes the breakdown of the superposition principle for macroscopic systems. Here, we derive an upper bound on the parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Davide Giordano Ario Altamura , Matteo Carlesso , Sandro Donadi , Angelo Bassi

The Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model has been proposed as a possible solution to the quantum measurement problem by modifying the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. In this work, we apply the CSL model to two cosmological models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Gabriel Leon , Gabriel R. Bengochea , Susana J. Landau

{The Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) theory alters the Schr\"odinger equation. It describes wave function collapse as a dynamical process instead of an ill-defined postulate, thereby providing macroscopic uniqueness and solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Franck Laloë , William J. Mullin , Philip Pearle

A natural generalization of the CSL (Continuous Spontaneous Localization) theory of dynamical collapse is applied to a relativistic quantum scalar field $\phi({\bf x},t)$. It is shown that the modified Schr\"odinger equation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Philip Pearle

Models of spontaneous wave function collapse modify the linear Schr\"{o}dinger equation of standard Quantum Mechanics by adding stochastic non-linear terms to it. The aim of such models is to describe the quantum (linear) nature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-14 Kinjalk Lochan , Suratna Das , Angelo Bassi

Wavefunction collapse models modify Schrodinger's equation so that it describes the rapid evolution of a superposition of macroscopically distinguishable states to one of them. This provides a phenomenological basis for a physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Brian Collett , Philip Pearle

In the context of spontaneous wave function collapse models, we investigate the properties of the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) collapse rate for rigid bodies. By exploiting the Euler-Maclaurin formula, we show that for standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Luca Ferialdi , Angelo Bassi

The Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model predicts a tiny break of energy conservation via a weak stochastic force acting on physical systems, which triggers the collapse of the wave function. Mechanical oscillators are a natural…

We compute the effect of collapse models on neutrino oscillations. The effect of the collapse is to modify the evolution of the `spatial' part of the wave function, which indirectly amounts to a change on the flavor components. In many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Donadi , A. Bassi , C. Curceanu , L. Ferialdi

We show that detecting steady-state Coulomb-mediated reduction in the thermal variance of the differential motional mode of two nanospheres can bound the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) parameter ($\lambda_{{\text{CSL}}}$). For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Suroj Dey , Peter Barker , Animesh Datta

A model is discussed where all operators are constructed from a quantum scalar field whose energy spectrum takes on all real values. The Schr\"odinger picture wave function depends upon space and time coordinates for each particle, as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Philip Pearle

We propose a mechanism for testing the theory of collapse models such as continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) by examining the parametric heating rate of a trapped nanosphere. The random localizations of the centre-of-mass for a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Daniel Goldwater , Mauro Paternostro , P. F. Barker

Models of spontaneous wave function collapse describe the quantum-to-classical transition by assuming a progressive breakdown of the superposition principle when the mass of the system increases, providing a well-defined phenomenology in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Matteo Carlesso , Luca Ferialdi , Angelo Bassi
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