Towards relativistic generalization of collapse models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06954v1
• Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:37:20 GMT
• Title: Towards relativistic generalization of collapse models
• Authors: Anirudh Gundhi, Lajos Diósi, Matteo Carlesso,
• Abstract summary: Spontaneous collapse models provide a possible, testable solution to the quantum measurement problem.<n>Previous attempts have encoutered different obstacles, such as violation of microcausality.<n>A specific choice of the noise correlation function is also introduced and discussed.
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• Abstract: Spontaneous collapse models provide a possible, testable solution to the quantum measurement problem. While experiments are providing increasingly stronger bounds on their parameters, a full-fledged relativistic extension is still missing. Previous attempts have encoutered different obstacles, such as violation of microcausality, infinite energy rate, and particle production from vacuum. Here, we propose generalization of the collapse master equation that is characterized by a local field collapse operator and a non-Markovian noise with a Lorentz invariant correlation. Our construction is able to overcome previously encountered problems and has the desirable properties in the non relativistic limit. A specific choice of the noise correlation function is also introduced and discussed.

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