Transcript Slides - Agenda INFN

Is quantum theory exact?
The endeavor for the theory beyond
standard quantum mechanics
Catalina
Curceanu
Second
Edition
FQT2015
LNF-INFN
LNF-INFN, 23-25
September 2015
On behalf of the VIP Collaboration
and Kick-off meeting for the FQXi project:
Events as we see them: experimental test of
the collapse models as a solution of the
Organized by:
Local Organizer:
Angelo Bassi, Univ. and INFN Trieste
Catalina Curceanu, LNF-INFN, Frascati (Roma)
Sandr Donadi, Univ. and INFN Trieste
Kristian Piscicchia, Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e
Ricerche Enrico Fermi Roma, and LNF-INFN Frascati (Roma)
Giancarlo Righini, Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e
Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma
Secretary:
Donatella Pierluigi, LNF-INFN Frascati (Roma)
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites
the mind to closer inquiry and experiment,
from which, if rightly managed, certainty
proceeds, and in this alone can man find
thorough satisfaction.
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and
experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this
alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English
and Foreign Sources (1893),
"Events" as we see them: experimental test of the collapse models
as a solution of the measurement-problem.
One of the main pillars of our understanding of Nature and the Universe is the Quantum
Theory (QT), which, in spite of its tantalizing success, generates many debates, rooted in its
puzzles, which trigger efforts towards a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
What we know about the world is based on the “events” we measure. But the measurement
process is hiding one of the deepest mysteries of QT: the “measurement problem”. A system
evolves, according to the QT, as being in a linear superposition of all the allowed states, but,
when a measurement takes place, only one state emerges as the unambiguous “event”. How
(even whether) the wave function collapses? This phenomenon harbors the secrets of the
“Physics of What Happens”, with implications in cosmology, philosophy, and in
understanding brain and consciousness. We shall perform the first dedicated experiment in
the Gran Sasso (Italy) low-background underground laboratory, to investigate an elegant
solution proposed to solve the “measurement problem”: the Dynamical Reduction Models.
We will achieve a far deeper understanding of the “measurement problem”, intimately
connected to the Physics of What Happens, and we might even glance to the theory beyond
the actual QT, in the quest for unveiling reality.
23 September:
Chair: Pawel Moskal
l11:00 – 11:30 Angelo Bassi: Wave function collaspe and gravity
11:30 – 12:00 Stefano Bellucci: Electromagnetic characterization of graphene and
graphene nanoribbons via ab-initio permittivity simulations
12:00 – 12:30 Ugur Sezer: Quantum Interference with bionanomatter
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
Chair: Kristian Piscicchia
14:30 – 15:00 Beatrix Hiesmayr: Testing Beyond Standard Quantum Theory at
Collider Energies
15:00 – 15:30 Oreste Nicrosini: Does reduction of a particle wave function take a
time?
15:30 – 16:00 Bassano Vacchini: Memory effects in quantum dynamics: from
applications to foundations
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00 Andrea Vinante: Testing collapse models with ultracold mechanical
resonators
24 September:
Chair: Bassano Vacchini
9:30 – 10:00 Antonio Di Domenico: Probing CPT symmetry with entangled neutral K mesons
10:00 – 10:30 Simone Dell’Agnello: Earth-Moon Lagrangian points as a testbed for general relativity and
effective quantum field theories of gravity: an experimental point of view
10:30 – 11:00 Pawel Moskal: Potential of the J-PET technology for tests of discrete symmetries and
quantum mechanics
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break and group picture
11:30 – 12:00 Konstantin Lukin: QM motion of classical particle and probable link to GWR theory
12:00 – 12:30 Catalina Curceanu: On the Pauli Exclusion Principle search with VIP: some thoughts about
data analyses
12:30 – 13:00 Kristian Piscicchia: On how to treat the X-ray spontaneous emission to get the lambda-value
for collapse models
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break
Chair: Angelo Bassi
14:30 – 15:00 Mauro D’Ariano: A relativity principle without space-time for the Quantum Automata Field
Theory
15:00 – 15:30 Marco Erba: Virtually abelian quantum walks and their symmetries
15:30 – 16:00 Marko Toros: Matter-wave experiments and collapse models
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00 Sandro Donadi: Recent developments in Collapse Models: dissipative and non-white noise
Collapse Models
8 pm: Social Dinner at the “Zaraza’” restaurant in Frascati
25 September 2015
Chair: Beatrix Hiesmayr
9:30 – 10:00 Alessio Avella: Measuring incompatible observables by mean of
sequential weak values evaluation
10:00 – 10:30 Fabio Sciarrino: Quantum simulation with Integrated photonics
10:30 – 11:00 Giacomo Guarnieri: Single-photon observables and preparation
uncertainty relations
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Matteo Carlesso: Quantum Brownian Motion Reconsidered
12:00 – 12:30 Michele Arzano: Is purity eternal at the Planck scale?" 12:30 – 13:00
Closure, conclusions
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An
indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the
truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but
every one says something true about the nature of things, and while
individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of
all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems
to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it
is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth and not the particular
part we aim at shows the difficulty of it. Perhaps, as difficulties are of
two kinds, the cause of the present difficulty is not in the facts but in us.
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An
indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the
truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but
every one says something true about the nature of things, and while
individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of
all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems
to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it
is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth and not the particular
part we aim at shows the difficulty of it. Perhaps, as difficulties are of
two kinds, the cause of the present difficulty is not in the facts but in us.
— Aristotle
Metaphysics, 993a, 30-993b, 9. In Jonathan Barnes (ed.), The Complete
Works of Aristotle (1984), Vol. 2,