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Synthetic horizons in an atomic chain: Horizon-induced effects and connections to quantum Hall systems
Ali G. Moghaddam, Viktor Könye, Lotte Mertens +2
We investigate the sine model, a one-dimensional tight-binding Hamiltonian with position-dependent sinusoidal hopping, and demonstrate the formation of synthetic horizons where ele…
Superluminal signalling witness for quantum state reduction
Aritro Mukherjee, Lisa Lenstra, Lotte Mertens +1
Models for quantum state reduction address the quantum measurement problem by suggesting weak modifications to Schrödinger's equation that have no observable effect at microscopic…
Two-dimensional Discommensurations: an extension to McMillan's Ginzburg-Landau Theory
Lotte Mertens, Jeroen van den Brink, Jasper van Wezel
Charge density waves (CDW) profoundly affect the electronic properties of materials and have an intricate interplay with other collective states, like superconductivity and magneti…
Environment-assisted invariance does not necessitate Born's rule for quantum measurement
Lotte Mertens, Jasper van Wezel
The argument of environment-assisted invariance (known as envariance) implying Born's rule is widely used in models for quantum measurement to reason that they must yield the corre…
Quantum state reduction of general initial states through spontaneous unitarity violation
Aritro Mukherjee, Srinivas Gotur, Jelle Aalberts +3
The inability of Schrodinger's unitary time evolution to describe measurement of a quantum state remains a central foundational problem. It was recently suggested that the unitarit…
Anisotropic optics and gravitational lensing of tilted Weyl fermions
Viktor Könye, Lotte Mertens, Corentin Morice +4
We show that tilted Weyl semimetals with a spatially varying tilt of the Weyl cones provide a platform for studying analogues to problems in anisotropic optics as well as curved sp…
An objective collapse model without state dependent stochasticity
Lotte Mertens, Matthijs Wesseling, Jasper van Wezel
The impossibility of describing measurement in quantum mechanics while using a quantum mechanical model for the measurement machine, remains one of its central problems. Objective…
Thermalization by a synthetic horizon
Lotte Mertens, Ali G. Moghaddam, Dmitry Chernyavsky +3
Synthetic horizons in models for quantum matter provide an alternative route to explore fundamental questions of modern gravitational theory. Here, we apply these concepts to the p…