A relativistic GRW flash process with interaction

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-46777-7_23MaRDI QIDQ822501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roderich Tumulka

Publication date 22 September 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00482

zbMATH Keywords

relativityTomonaga-Schwinger equationGhirardi-Rimini-Weber (GRW) theory of spontaneous wave function collapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Particle exchange symmetries in quantum theory (general) (81V72)

Abstract: In 2004, I described a relativistic version of the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber (GRW) model of spontaneous wave function collapse for N non-interacting distinguishable particles. Here I present a generalized version for N interacting distinguishable particles. Presently, I do not know how to set up a similar model for indistinguishable particles or a variable number of particles. The present interacting model is constructed from a given interacting unitary Tomonaga-Schwinger type evolution between spacelike hypersurfaces, into which discrete collapses are inserted. I assume that this unitary evolution is interaction-local (i.e., no interaction at spacelike separation). The model is formulated in terms of Bell's flash ontology but is also compatible with Ghirardi's matter density ontology. It is non-local and satisfies microscopic parameter independence and no-signaling; it also works in curved space-time; in the non-relativistic limit, it reduces to the known non-relativistic GRW model.

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