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- Title
Collapse Models: A Theoretical, Experimental and Philosophical Review.
- Authors
Bassi, Angelo; Dorato, Mauro; Ulbricht, Hendrik
- Abstract
In this paper, we review and connect the three essential conditions needed by the collapse model to achieve a complete and exact formulation, namely the theoretical, the experimental, and the ontological ones. These features correspond to the three parts of the paper. In any empirical science, the first two features are obviously connected but, as is well known, among the different formulations and interpretations of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, only collapse models, as the paper well illustrates with a richness of details, have experimental consequences. Finally, we show that a clarification of the ontological intimations of collapse models is needed for at least three reasons: (1) to respond to the indispensable task of answering the question 'what are collapse models (and in general any physical theory) about?'; (2) to achieve a deeper understanding of their different formulations; (3) to enlarge the panorama of possible readings of a theory, which historically has often played a fundamental heuristic role.
- Subjects
NONRELATIVISTIC quantum mechanics; PANORAMAS
- Publication
Entropy, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 4, p645
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e25040645