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In the present work we revisit a model consisting of a scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential non-minimally (conformally) coupled to gravity [1]. When the scalar field vacuum is in a broken symmetry state, an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-15 V. Antunes , M. Novello

The speculation that gravity is the key to solving the quantum measurement problem has been alive for decades, without any convincing demonstration of a solution. One necessary factor in the relevant proposals is that the gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 C. S. Unnikrishnan , George T. Gillies

In this paper, we explore a collapsing scenario in the background of energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG). EMSG claims to have terms that originate from the quantum gravity effects mimicking loop quantum gravity. As a result, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-14 Prabir Rudra

In the DP-model, gravity-related spontaneous wave function collapses suppress undesirable Schr\"odinger Cat states. We derive the equations of the model for the hydrodynamic-elastic (acoustic) modes in a bulk. Two particular features are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi

We investigate gravitational collapse in the context of quantum mechanics. We take primary interest in the behavior of the collapse near the horizon and near the origin (classical singularity) from the point of view of an infalling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-07 Eric Greenwood , Dejan Stojkovic

We present a novel spontaneous collapse model where size is no longer the property of a physical system which determines its rate of collapse. Instead, we argue that the rate of spontaneous localization should depend on a system's quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-16 Kobi Kremnizer , André Ranchin

The recent experimental proposals by Bose et al. and Marletto et al. (BMV) outline a way to test for the quantum nature of gravity by measuring gravitationally induced differential phase accumulation over the superposed paths of two…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Thomas Andersen

We study the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field within the effective scenario of loop quantum gravity. Classical singularity is avoided and replaced by a quantum bounce in this model. It is shown that, quantum gravity effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-02 Yaser Tavakoli , Joao Marto , Andrea Dapor

We discuss the emergence of classical trajectories in Bohmian Mechanics (BM), when a macroscopic object interacts with an external environment. We show that in such a case the conditional wave function of the system follows a dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marko Toroš , Sandro Donadi , Angelo Bassi

The Diosi-Penrose model of quantum-classical boundary postulates gravity-related spontaneous wave function collapse of massive degrees of freedom. The decoherence effects of the collapses are in principle detectable if not masked by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi

Quantum mechanics is an extremely successful theory that agrees with every experiment. However, the principle of linear superposition, a central tenet of the theory, apparently contradicts a commonplace observation: macroscopic objects are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Angelo Bassi , Kinjalk Lochan , Seema Satin , Tejinder P. Singh , Hendrik Ulbricht

We propose the theory of quantum gravity with interactions introduced by topological principle. The fundamental property of such a theory is that its energy-momentum tensor is an BRST anticommutator. Physical states are elements of BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Pawel O. Mazur , V. P. Nair

We use a quantum mechanical charged particle as a test particle which probes the dynamics of force-related fields it is subject to. We allow for geodesic motion and relations involving gravitation appear. Gravitation affects quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Victor Atanasov

The change with time of the system consisting of the quantum object and the macroscopic measuring instrument is described on the base of the uniform dynamic law, which is suitable both evolution and reduction processes description. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 A. Yu. Samarin

Inspired by possible connections between gravity and foundational question in quantum theory, we consider an approach for the adaptation of objective collapse models to a general relativistic context. We apply these ideas to a list of open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-12 Elias Okon , Daniel Sudarsky

The structure of Collapse Models is investigated in the framework of Quantum Measure Theory, a histories-based approach to quantum mechanics. The underlying structure of coupled classical and quantum systems is elucidated in this approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 Fay Dowker , Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai

The collapse of a quantum state can be understood as a mathematical way to construct a joint probability density even for operators that do not commute. We can formalize that construction as a non-commutative, non-associative collapse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 Peter Morgan

The gravity-related model of spontaneous wave function collapse, a longtime hypothesis, damps the massive Schr\"odinger Cat states in quantum theory. We extend the hypothesis and assume that spontaneous wave function collapses are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi

The purpose of this study is to calculate the entanglement measure for a bipartite system where the two subsystems interact via a central potential, and more importantly, to analyze the conceptual implication in the case of gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jianhao M. Yang

When about half a century ago the concept of universal spontaneous collapse of the wave function was conceived it was an attempt to alter standard non-relativistic quantum physics. As such, it was largely ignored by relativistic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Lajos Diósi