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This study proposes a novel Ramsey-interferometric protocol using trapped charged nanoparticles to test Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL), an alternative theory attempting to explain wavefunction collapse without invoking quantum mechanics' standard linearity. By treating the nanoparticle as a reversible mesoscopic pointer, researchers aim to detect irreversible visibility loss in microscopic superpositions that ordinary quantum mechanics predicts should recover upon recombination. The projected sensitivities significantly surpass current non-interferometric bounds, offering a more stringent direct test of macrorealism and potential deviations from standard QM at the mesoscale.
A Measurement-Like Test of Continuous Spontaneous Localization with a Reversible Nanoparticle Pointer
arXiv:2606.22707v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a direct Ramsey-interferometric test of Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) in which a trapped charged nanoparticle acts as a reversible mesoscopic measurement pointer. A microscopic system is prepared in a two-branch Ramsey superposition; during the Ramsey interval, the two branches exert opposite weak forces on the nanoparticle. The nanoparticle center of mass therefore follows two branch-conditioned trajectories that temporarily separate and close again after one weak-trap period. The nanoparticle is then disentangled from the microscopic system, and the measured observable is the final Ramsey visibility of the microscopic system. Ordinary quantum mechanics predicts recovery of this visibility at the recombination time, while CSL predicts an irreversible visibility loss accumulated during the temporary separation of the nanoparticle mass distributions. The main value of the protocol is a stronger direct visibility-loss test of CSL using reversible measurement-like amplification. At the benchmark exposure $N_0=5\times10^5$, the baseline polar-molecule and aggressive Rydberg-Stark operating points improve over digitized direct matter-wave CSL bounds by about $1.3\times10^4$ and $2.1\times10^5$, respectively. These factors scale as $\sqrt{N/N_0}$; equivalently, $\lambda_{\min}\propto N^{-1/2}$. At the same exposure, the projected sensitivities remain above the strongest non-interferometric bounds, which probe CSL through different observables.
Abstract:We propose a direct Ramsey-interferometric test of Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) in which a trapped charged nanoparticle acts as a reversible mesoscopic measurement pointer. A microscopic system is prepared in a two-branch Ramsey superposition; during the Ramsey interval, the two branches exert opposite weak forces on the nanoparticle. The nanoparticle center of mass therefore follows two branch-conditioned trajectories that temporarily separate and close again after one weak-trap period. The nanoparticle is then disentangled from the microscopic system, and the measured observable is the final Ramsey visibility of the microscopic system. Ordinary quantum mechanics predicts recovery of this visibility at the recombination time, while CSL predicts an irreversible visibility loss accumulated during the temporary separation of the nanoparticle mass distributions. The main value of the protocol is a stronger direct visibility-loss test of CSL using reversible measurement-like amplification. At the benchmark exposure $N_0=5\times10^5$, the baseline polar-molecule and aggressive Rydberg-Stark operating points improve over digitized direct matter-wave CSL bounds by about $1.3\times10^4$ and $2.1\times10^5$, respectively. These factors scale as $\sqrt{N/N_0}$; equivalently, $\lambda_{\min}\propto N^{-1/2}$. At the same exposure, the projected sensitivities remain above the strongest non-interferometric bounds, which probe CSL through different observables.
arXiv:2606.22707 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2606.22707v3 [quant-ph] for this version)
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