Are collapse models testable with quantum oscillating systems? The case of neutrinos, kaons, chiral molecules
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F13%3A00072629" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/13:00072629 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130606/srep01952/full/srep01952.html" target="_blank" >http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130606/srep01952/full/srep01952.html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01952" target="_blank" >10.1038/srep01952</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Are collapse models testable with quantum oscillating systems? The case of neutrinos, kaons, chiral molecules
Original language description
Collapse models provide a theoretical framework for understanding how classical world emerges from quantum mechanics. Their dynamics preserves (practically) quantum linearity for microscopic systems, while it becomes strongly nonlinear when moving towards macroscopic scale. The conventional approach to test collapse models is to create spatial superpositions of mesoscopic systems and then examine the loss of interference, while environmental noises are engineered carefully. Here we investigate a different approach: We study systems that naturally oscillate?creating quantum superpositions?and thus represent a natural case-study for testing quantum linearity: neutrinos, neutral mesons, and chiral molecules. We will show how spontaneous collapses affect their oscillatory behavior, and will compare them with environmental decoherence effects. We will show that, contrary to what previously predicted, collapse models cannot be tested with neutrinos.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
BE - Theoretical physics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
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Volume of the periodical
3
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1952
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
1-7
UT code for WoS article
000319960300005
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