Cancellation effects as a fingerprint of quantum collapse models at atomic scale

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09920v2
• Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:34:14 GMT
• Title: Cancellation effects as a fingerprint of quantum collapse models at atomic scale
• Authors: Kristian Piscicchia, Sandro Donadi, Simone Manti, Angelo Bassi, Maaneli Derakhshani, Lajos Diosi and Catalina Curceanu
• Abstract summary: In this work the spontaneous electromagnetic radiation from atomic systems, induced by dynamical wave-function collapse, is investigated in the X-rays domain. For the first time, is found to depend on the specific collapse model.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this work the spontaneous electromagnetic radiation from atomic systems, induced by dynamical wave-function collapse, is investigated in the X-rays domain. Strong departures are evidenced with respect to the simple cases considered until now in the literature, in which the emission is either perfectly coherent (protons in the same nuclei) or incoherent (electrons). In this low-energy regime the spontaneous radiation rate strongly depends on the atomic species under investigation and, for the first time, is found to depend on the specific collapse model.

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