Collapse models with non-white noises: II. Particle-density coupled noises

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/39/395308zbMATH Open1148.81004arXiv0807.2846OpenAlexW3103508215WikidataQ62590923 ScholiaQ62590923MaRDI QIDQ3531189FDOQ3531189

Authors: Stephen L. Adler, Angelo Bassi 

Publication date: 21 October 2008

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We continue the analysis of models of spontaneous wave function collapse with stochastic dynamics driven by non-white Gaussian noise. We specialize to a model in which a classical "noise" field, with specified autocorrelator, is coupled to a local nonrelativistic particle density. We derive general results in this model for the rates of density matrix diagonalization and of state vector reduction, and show that (in the absence of decoherence) both processes are governed by essentially the same rate parameters. As an alternative route to our reduction results, we also derive the Fokker-Planck equations that correspond to the initial stochastic Schr"odinger equation. For specific models of the noise autocorrelator, including ones motivated by the structure of thermal Green's functions, we discuss the qualitative and qantitative dependence on model parameters, with particular emphasis on possible cosmological sources of the noise field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2846

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

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