Collapse models: analysis of the free particle dynamics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/14/008zbMATH Open1065.81013arXivquant-ph/0410222OpenAlexW2099192030WikidataQ62590938 ScholiaQ62590938MaRDI QIDQ4676322FDOQ4676322

Authors: Angelo Bassi 

Publication date: 3 May 2005

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

Abstract: We study a model of spontaneous wavefunction collapse for a free quantum particle. We analyze in detail the time evolution of the single-Gaussian solution and the double-Gaussian solution, showing how the reduction mechanism induces the localization of the wavefunction in space; we also study the asymptotic behavior of the general solution. With an appropriate choice for the parameter $lambda$ which sets the strength of the collapse mechanism, we prove that: i) the effects of the reducing terms on the dynamics of microscopic systems are negligible, the physical predictions of the model being very close to those of standard quantum mechanics; ii) at the macroscopic scale, the model reproduces classical mechanics: the wavefunction of the center of mass of a macro-object behaves, with high accuracy, like a point moving in space according to Newton's laws.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410222

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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