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Quantum foundations for quantum technologies in the International Year of Quantum (2025)
Angelo Bassi
From the very beginning, Quantum Mechanics has been accompanied by crucial foundational questions: the possibility of visualizing physical processes, the limits of measurement epit…
Enhancement of the effects due to the Schrödinger-Newton equation
Davide Giordano Ario Altamura, José Luis Gaona-Reyes, Elliot Simcox +2
The Schrödinger-Newton (SN) equation introduces a nonlinear self-gravitational term to the standard Schrödinger equation, offering a paradigmatic model for semiclassical gravity. H…
MAQRO -- BPS 2023 Research Campaign Whitepaper
Rainer Kaltenbaek, Markus Arndt, Markus Aspelmeyer +43
The objective of the proposed MAQRO mission is to harness space for achieving long free-fall times, extreme vacuum, nano-gravity, and cryogenic temperatures to test the foundations…
Quantum Technologies in Space
Rainer Kaltenbaek, Antonio Acin, Laszlo Bacsardi +17
Recently, the European Commission supported by many European countries has announced large investments towards the commercialization of quantum technology (QT) to address and mitig…
Gravitational Decoherence
Angelo Bassi, André Großardt, Hendrik Ulbricht
We discuss effects of loss of coherence in low energy quantum systems caused by or related to gravitation, referred to as gravitational decoherence. These effects, resulting from r…
VIP-2 at LNGS: An experiment on the validity of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons
J. Marton, S. Bartalucci, A. Bassi +26
We are experimentally investigating possible violations of standard quantum mechanics predictions in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. We test with high precision the…
Spontaneously emitted X-rays: an experimental signature of the dynamical reduction models
C. Curceanu, S. Bartalucci, A. Bassi +29
We present the idea of searching for X-rays as a signature of the mechanism inducing the spontaneous collapse of the wave function. Such a signal is predicted by the continuous spo…
Entangling macroscopic diamonds at room temperature: Bounds on the continuous-spontaneous-localization parameters
S. Belli, R. Bonsignori, G. D'Auria +5
A recent experiment [K. C. Lee et al., Science 334, 1253 (2011)] succeeded in detecting entanglement between two macroscopic specks of diamonds, separated by a macroscopic distance…
Effects of Newtonian gravitational self-interaction in harmonically trapped quantum systems
André Großardt, James Bateman, Hendrik Ulbricht +1
The Schrödinger-Newton equation has gained attention in the recent past as a nonlinear modification of the Schrödinger equation due to a gravitational self-interaction. Such a modi…
Is Gravity Quantum?
M. Bahrami, A. Bassi, S. McMillen +2
What gravitational field is generated by a massive quantum system in a spatial superposition? This is one of the most important questions in modern physics, and after decades of in…
Beyond quantum mechanics? Hunting the 'impossible' atoms (Pauli Exclusion Principle violation and spontaneous collapse of the wave function at test)
K. Piscicchia, C. Curceanu, S. Bartalucci +27
The development of mathematically complete and consistent models solving the so-called "measurement problem", strongly renewed the interest of the scientific community for the foun…