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New Avenues for Testing Collapse Models

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Do Wave Functions Jump?

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There is an increasing interest in developing experiments aimed at testing collapse models, in particular the Continuous Localization Model (CSL), the natural evolution of the GRW model initially proposed by Ghirardi et al. [1,2,3,4].

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge support from the EU project TEQ (grant agreement 766900). We would like to thank our collaborators, discussion and debating partners on the topic of experimental testing collapse models for many enlightening discussions over the years: Angelo Bassi, Steve Adler, Mauro Paternostro, TP Singh, Marko Toro\({\check{\mathrm s}}\), Matteo Carlesso, Giulio Gasbarri, Sandro Donadi, Luca Ferialdi, Marco Bilardello, Catalina Curceanu, Andrew Briggs, Caslav Bruckner, Markus Arndt, Daniel Bedingham, Ward Stuyve, Kinjalk Lochan, Michael Drewsen, Peter F. Barker, Antonio Pontin, Anis Rahman, James Bateman, Sougato Bose, Myungshik Kim, Mohammad Bahrami, Stefan Nimmrichter, Klaus Hornberger, Andrew Steane, Oriol Romero-Isart and Tjerk Oosterkamp. The paper is dedicated to the late Gian Carlo Ghirardi, who had a great idea and fought for it all his life.

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  2. Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  3. Mathematisches Institut, LMU, Munich, Germany

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Vinante, A., Ulbricht, H. (2021). New Avenues for Testing Collapse Models. In: Allori, V., Bassi, A., Dürr, D., Zanghi, N. (eds) Do Wave Functions Jump? . Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46777-7_29

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