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A Flash-Based Relativistic Collapse Model for Quantum Fields
Nicolò Piccione
Spontaneous collapse models provide a possible, testable solution to the quantum measurement problem, but constructing a relativistic version applicable to quantum field theory rem…
Non-Markovian Poissonian Spontaneous Collapse Models
Nicolò Piccione
Spontaneous collapse models provide a possible solution to the measurement problem by modifying standard quantum dynamics. The modification consists of adding non-linear and stocha…
Gravitational Poissonian Spontaneous Localization Model of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Newtonian Gravity: Energy Increase and Experimental Bounds
Nicolò Piccione
The Gravitational Poissonian Spontaneous Localization (GPSL) model is a hybrid classical-quantum framework in which Newtonian gravity emerges from stochastic collapses of a smeared…
Diffusion Minimization via Optimal Smearing in Collapse and Hybrid Classical-Quantum Gravitational Models
Nicolò Piccione
Spontaneous diffusion (i.e., non-conservation of energy) is a prominent, testable prediction of collapse and hybrid classical-quantum gravitational models. Without smearing of the…
Hybrid Classical-Quantum Newtonian Gravity with stable vacuum
Nicolò Piccione, Angelo Bassi
We investigate the Gravitational Poissonian Spontaneous Localization (GPSL) model, a hybrid classical-quantum model in which classical Newtonian gravity emerges from stochastic col…
Exploring the Effects of Mass Dependence in Spontaneous Collapse Models
Nicolò Piccione, Angelo Bassi
Spontaneous collapse models aim to solve the long-standing measurement problem in quantum mechanics by modifying the theory's dynamics to include objective wave function collapses.…
Exploring the Accuracy of Interferometric Quantum Measurements under Conservation Laws
Nicolò Piccione, Maria Maffei, Andrew N. Jordan +2
A (target) quantum system is often measured through observations performed on a second (meter) system to which the target is coupled. In the presence of global conservation laws ho…
Quantum energetics of a non-commuting measurement
Xiayu Linpeng, Nicolò Piccione, Maria Maffei +5
When a measurement observable does not commute with a quantum system's Hamiltonian, the energy of the measured system is typically not conserved during the measurement. Instead, en…
Fundamental mechanisms of energy exchanges in autonomous measurements based on dispersive qubit-light interaction
Nicolò Piccione, Maria Maffei, Xiayu Linpeng +3
Measuring an observable which does not commute with the Hamiltonian of a quantum system usually modifies the mean energy of this system. In an autonomous measurement scheme, coupli…
Extraction of Work via a Thermalization Protocol
Nicolò Piccione, Benedetto Militello, Anna Napoli +1
This extended abstract contains an outline of the work reported at the conference IQIS2018. We show that it is possible to exploit a thermalization process to extract work from a r…
A proposal for a new kind of spontaneous collapse model
Nicolò Piccione
Spontaneous collapse models are modifications of standard quantum mechanics in which a physical mechanism is responsible for the collapse of the wavefunction, thus providing a way…
Reservoir-Free Decoherence in Flying Qubits
Nicolò Piccione, Léa Bresque, Andrew N. Jordan +2
An effective time-dependent Hamiltonian can be implemented by making a quantum system fly through an inhomogeneous potential, realizing, for example, a quantum gate on its internal…
Driven quantum harmonic oscillators: A working medium for thermal machines
Heather Leitch, Nicolò Piccione, Bruno Bellomo +1
The study of quantum thermodynamics is key to the development of quantum thermal machines. In contrast to most of the previous proposals based on discrete strokes, here we consider…
Generation of minimum energy entangled states
Nicolò Piccione, Benedetto Militello, Anna Napoli +1
Quantum technologies exploiting bipartite entanglement could be made more efficient by using states having the minimum amount of energy for a given entanglement degree. Here, we st…
Power maximization of two-stroke quantum thermal machines
Nicolò Piccione, Gabriele De Chiara, Bruno Bellomo
We present a detailed study of quantum thermal machines employing quantum systems as working substances. In particular, we study two different types of two-stroke cycles where two…
Two-photon-interaction effects in the bad-cavity limit
Nicolò Piccione, Simone Felicetti, Bruno Bellomo
Various experimental platforms have proven to be valid testbeds for the implementation of nondipolar light-matter interactions, where atomic systems and confined modes interact via…
Energy bounds for entangled states
Nicolò Piccione, Benedetto Militello, Anna Napoli +1
We find the minimum and the maximum value for the local energy of an arbitrary finite bipartite system for any given amount of entanglement, also identifying families of states rea…
Simple scheme for extracting work with a single bath
Nicolò Piccione, Benedetto Militello, Anna Napoli +1
We propose a simple protocol exploiting the thermalization of a bipartite system to extract work from a system . The protocol is based…