Characterizing the spontaneous collapse of a wavefunction through entropy production

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12675v2
• Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:18:47 GMT
• Title: Characterizing the spontaneous collapse of a wavefunction through entropy production
• Authors: Simone Artini, Mauro Paternostro
• Abstract summary: We investigate the phenomenology leading to the non-conservation of energy of the continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) model. We use such framework to assess the equilibration process entailed by the dissipative formulation of the model (dCSL) We show that the CSL model violates Clausius law, as it exhibits a negative entropy production rate.
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• Abstract: We investigate the phenomenology leading to the non-conservation of energy of the continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) model from the viewpoint of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and use such framework to assess the equilibration process entailed by the dissipative formulation of the model (dCSL). As a paradigmatic situation currently addressed in frontier experiments aimed at investigating possible collapse theories, we consider a one-dimensional mechanical oscillator in a thermal state. We perform our analysis in the phase space of the oscillator, where the entropy production rate, a non-equilibrium quantity used to characterize irreversibility, can be conveniently analyzed. We show that the CSL model violates Clausius law, as it exhibits a negative entropy production rate, while the dCSL model reaches equilibrium consistently only under certain dynamical conditions, thus allowing us to identify the values -- in the parameter space -- where the latter mechanism can be faithfully used to describe a thermodynamically consistent phenomenon.

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