Towards relativistic generalization of collapse models

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 encountered different obstacles, such as violation of microcausality, infinite energy rate, and particle production from vacuum. Here, we propose a 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.

Accepted for publication; comments added

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