Atomic correlation effects in collapse-induced spontaneous radiation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07205v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:19:45 GMT
• Title: Atomic correlation effects in collapse-induced spontaneous radiation
• Abstract summary: Recently, attention has focused on the 1-100 keV energy range, where the wavelength of the emitted photons becomes comparable to atomic dimensions.<n>Here, we derive a general expression for the spontaneous emission rate for arbitrary noise, providing a framework that systematically incorporates the atomic structure through the radial distribution of the emitters.<n>This approach provides a unified framework to account for atomic effects and enables more robust, material-dependent experimental constraints on collapse model parameters.
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• Abstract: Collapse models introduce stochastic and nonlinear modifications in the quantum dynamics, predicting observable effects, such as spontaneous radiation from charged particles, which can be used to constrain their parameters. Recently, attention has focused on the 1-100 keV energy range, where the wavelength of the emitted photons becomes comparable to atomic dimensions, making the emission sensitive to atomic structure and leading to model-dependent behaviors that enable their discrimination. Here, we derive a general expression for the spontaneous emission rate for arbitrary noise, providing a framework that systematically incorporates the atomic structure through the radial distribution of the emitters, modulated by the specific collapse model. The formalism recovers previous results in the appropriate limits and naturally includes new low-energy effects, such as cancellation mechanisms arising from charge correlations. We evaluate the rates for germanium and xenon within the Diósi-Penrose and Continuous Spontaneous Localization models, showing how these correlations modify the predicted emission rates. This approach provides a unified framework to account for atomic effects and enables more robust, material-dependent experimental constraints on collapse model parameters.

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