Underground Test of Gravity-Related Wave Function Collapse Rules Out Diósi–Penrose Model.
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From the Abstract:
Roger Penrose proposed that a spatial quantum superposition collapses as a back-reaction from spacetime, which is curved in different ways by each branch of the superposition. In this sense, one speaks of gravity-related wave function collapse. He also provided a heuristic formula to compute the decay time of the superposition-similar to that suggested earlier by Lajos Diosi, hence the name Diosi-Penrose model. The collapse depends on the effective size of the mass density of particles in the superposition, and is random: this randomness shows up as a diffusion of the particles' motion, resulting, if charged, in the emission of radiation. Here, we compute the radiation emission rate, which is faint but detectable. We then report the results of a dedicated experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory to measure this radiation emission rate. Our result sets a lower bound on the effective size of the mass density of nuclei, which is about three orders of magnitude larger than previous bounds. This rules out the natural parameter-free version of the Diosi-Penrose model.
Journal Reference:
Sandro Donadi, Kristian Piscicchia, Catalina Curceanu, et al. Underground test of gravity-related wave function collapse, Nature Physics (DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-1008-4)
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